Unit 2 Short Test 1B

Grammar

1 Complete the dialogue with the present perfect or past simple form of the verbs in brackets.

Ellie

Your stamp collection is amazing, Rick. When

1

_______________ (you / start) collecting stamps?

Rick

I

2

_______________ (do) it since I was a child.

Ellie

Where do you get the stamps from?

Rick

I get some of them from friends, or I buy them on the internet. And my mum buys stamps for me when she
travels. She

3

_______________ (go) to lots of different countries for her job, like Costa Rica, Thailand and

Kenya.

Ellie

I

4

_______________ (not see) a stamp like this before. Where

5

_______________ (you / get) it?

Rick

It’s from Benin in Africa. I

6

_______________ (buy) it on the internet a few months ago.

Mark: ___ / 6

2 Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.

1 What’s Venice like? I never went / ’ve never been there.

2 Did you visit / Have you visited your grandparents last weekend?

3 Kelly and Ryan split up / have split up yesterday.

4 Have you ever tried / Did you ever try to bake a cake?

Mark: ___ / 4

Vocabulary

3 Match the sentences with the activities below.

collect stamps draw hang out with friends read magazines use social media

1 That’s an amazing picture of Harry. It looks just like him.

_______________

2 I check my Facebook page all the time, but I don’t post things every day.

_______________

3 Teen Fashion has got good articles and great photos. I get it every month.

_______________

4 This one has a picture of the Acropolis on it. Is it from Greece?

_______________

5 At the weekends, we often sit around in Pioneer Square, or we go to a café.

_______________

Mark: ___ / 5

4 Complete the sentences with the words and phrases below, adding play, do, or go.

cycling drama martial arts a musical instrument shopping

1 We need to get a present for Mike’s birthday. Let’s __________________ in town this afternoon.

2 You can learn to __________________ like karate and judo at that sports club.

3 It takes a long time to __________________ like the guitar or the piano well.

4 Helen and Mike __________________ , and they’re very good at it. They’re in a Shakespeare play in town next

weekend.

5 Jake’s got a new bike so he wants to __________________ this afternoon.

Mark: ___ / 5

Total: ___ / 20

Oxford Solutions Intermediate Tests

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Unit 2 Short Test 1B