Language Test A

Name: ____________________________________________ Class: ______________

Listening

1 [AUDIO 4] You will hear an interview about a website. Listen to the interview and complete the notes.
Write only ONE word in each gap.

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Name of website: eBay .

Kind of website: People can buy and 1_______________________ things.

How old is it? It started in September 2_______________________ .

Who started it? Pierre Omidyar, nationality: 3_______________________.

First thing he sold: Broken computer 4_______________________.

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Vocabulary

2 Complete the sentences with the expressions in the box. There is one extra expression.

switches on surfs the internet chats online stops working

makes video clips charge the battery keep in touch

0 Lee switches on his computer as soon as he arrives at work.

1 Maggie never __________________________ – she prefers talking face-to-face.

2 My tablet often __________________________ – I don’t know what’s wrong with it.

3 My sister __________________________ every evening – she likes checking out lots of different websites.

4 Do you use text messages to __________________________ with your friends?

5 Karl __________________________ of his guitar playing and uploads them onto YouTube.

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3 Put the words in the correct order to make phrases.

0 up / a phone / top
top up a phone.
1 virus / a computer / get
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2 networking / use / sites / social
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3 instant / to friends / send / messages
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4 files / share / other people / with
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5 a microphone / to / a computer / connect
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Grammar

4 Complete the sentences with the Past Simple form of the verbs in the brackets.

0 Camilla went (go) to London last weekend.

1 Paulo _______________________ (leave) school two years ago.
2 Pascale’s new tablet _______________________ (not cost) more than £200.
3 Yasmin _______________________ (lose) her pen drive at school last week.
4 My mum and dad _______________________ (give) me some money for a new keyboard.
5 My aunt _______________________ (take) lots of photos of me and my cousins last summer.

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5 Choose the correct options to complete the sentences.

0 Flavia hates to buy / buying things on eBay.

1 Tim enjoys to watch / watching DVDs every weekend.

2 My parents need to go / going shopping now.
3 I finished to do / doing my homework yesterday.
4 Ian agreed to meet / meeting his friends yesterday afternoon.
5 Martha can’t stand to listen / listening to classical music.

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Speaking

6 Choose the correct responses to complete the conversations.

Speaker A Speaker B

0 So, tell me the story. A Well, after that I lost my phone.

B Well, first I lost my phone.
C Well, then I lost my phone.

1 Why aren’t you doing your homework? A My computer smashed.

B My computer stopped.
C My computer crashed.

2 So how did the story end? A Finally, I stopped using Twitter.

B Quickly, I stopped using Twitter.
C Suddenly, I stopped using Twitter
.

3 So what did you do next? A After that, I uploaded the video.

B In the end, I uploaded the video.
C At first, I uploaded the video.

4 Oh no! I can’t connect to Google! A In the first, check the internet connection.
B First of all, check the internet connection.
C At the first, check the internet connection.

5 Sorry, Mum, but I lost your smartphone. A What’s up?

B Oh no! I don’t believe it!
C Don’t worry, I can explain!

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Reading

7 Complete the blog with the correct sentences A–F.

A I had a burger and fries.

B The memory on my tablet is about 8 billion times bigger than computers then!
C It’s about technology in the 1980s.
D I didn’t go to school, because it’s the weekend.
E The film was OK, and Mum and Dad really liked it.
F I took some great ones of me and my friends in the park.

17th May

I had a good day today! 0 D I looked up some information for my homework project. 1_____
The gadgets then were really funny, because the computers were so big and slow, and had very
little memory. 2_____ Amazing!

After that, I watched some video clips of my favourite bands on YouTube. Then I uploaded
some photos onto my Facebook page. 3_____ Click on the link here if you want to check them
out!

Anyway, in the afternoon Mum and Dad took us to the cinema. 4_____ Then we went for dinner
in a nice restaurant in the city centre, which was great. 5_____ When we got home,
I switched on the TV and watched a couple of game shows.

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English in Use

8 Complete the sentences with who, which or where.

0 A doctor is a person who helps sick people get better.

1 A library is a building _______________________ you can find a lot of books.

2 A gardener is someone _______________________ knows a lot about plants.

3 Google is a website _______________________ helps you find information.

4 A cassette player is an old gadget _______________________ people used to play and record music.

5 Pierre Omidyar is the man _______________________ started eBay website.

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Writing

9 Write a diary entry about using technology.

• write a date and describe what you did on this day;

• write what technology and gadgets you used;

• use first, then, next, an hour later etc. to put events in order.

Your description should be between 80 and 120 words.

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