Unit 7 Short Test 1A

Grammar

1 Complete the mini-dialogues. Use the correct form of the passive.

Liam

Guess what! Mike’s smartphone

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________________ (steal).

Jenny

Really? When did that happen?

Liam

It

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________________ (take) from the changing room when we were in a PE class. By the time we all came

back from PE, Mike’s phone was missing.

Jenny

Someone at school must have taken it, then. I’m sure the thief

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________________ (catch) soon, and Mike

will get his smartphone back.

Ruth

Our maths tests

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________________ (mark) at the moment. I hope I do well.

Ian

You always do well, Ruth. You

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________________ (give) the school maths prize once, you’ve had it twice!

Mark: ___ / 5

2 Write sentences using appropriate tenses and putting one verb into the active and one

into the passive.

1 we / might / take / on a school trip to the National Art Gallery next week, but I / not be / sure

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2 the police / catch / the forger after many of his paintings / sell

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3 a fire / start / in the theatre while a play / perform

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4 the museum that we / visit / build / over a hundred years ago

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5 I / certainly / not / invite / to Jake’s party because he / not like / me

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Mark: ___ / 5

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Unit 7 Short Test 1A

Vocabulary

3 Complete the sentences with the words below. There is one extra word.

ballet composer director drawing novelist poet

1 I really like this music. Who is the ________________ ?

2 Charles Dickens was a 19th century ________________ , but his books still have important messages for us today.

3 The dancers were great. It was an amazing ________________ .

4 The Moons of Saturn isn’t as good as his last sci-fi film, but Hadley Parker is still a great ________________ .

5 Many painters make a ________________ to plan everything before they start to paint a big picture.

Mark: ___ / 5

4 Complete the dialogue with the correct nouns and verbs. Some verbs are in the past simple tense.

Sean

Did you go to the

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r _ _ _ concert on Saturday night?

Isabella

Yes, I did. I love the band, and they

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p _ _ f _ _ m _ _ really well. Anyway, what about you?

Sean

I visited an art

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g _ _ _ _ r _ on Saturday. My uncle is sculptor and he

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c _ _ v _ _ some amazing animals

out of wood for the show.

Isabella

Cool. It must be amazing to

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c _ _ _ _ e something like that.

Sean

Yes, he’s a really talented person.

Mark: ___ / 5

Total: ___ / 20

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Unit 7 Short Test 1A