GRAMMAR

1 Match 1-5 with A-E.

	Direct speech		Reported speech
1	Where do you live?	A	He asked me where I went to school.
2	How long have you lived there?	B	He asked me where I had been born.
3	Do you like living there?	C	He asked me if I liked living there.
4	Where do you go to school?	D	He asked me where I lived.
5	Where were you born?	E	He asked me how long I had lived there.

____ / 5 points

VOCABULARY

2 Match ten of these words with the definitions.

average enable definite

similar dozen peak

effective phenomenal stressful

save someone's life type go ahead with

go on paramedic go up

	Word	Definition
1		twelve
2		stop someone dying
3		absolutely amazing
4		that works well
5		ordinary, normal
6		continue
7		top
8		like
9		increase
10		make possible

____ / 10 points

FUNCTION

3 Read the text. Complete 1-10 with A, B or C.

1 A to describe B him to describe C he describe

2 A why this is B why is this C why this was

3 A he had noticed B to notice C he was noticing

4 A helps B are helping C were helping

5 A he had observed B observes C was observing

6 A told B said C asked

7 A try B tried C to try

8 A came up B comes up C came

9 A asked B said C told

10 A would help B help C to help

____ / 10 points

Total : _____ / 25 points

Lesson test Inspiration 3 unit 7, lesson 3

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Paramedics do it again

Yes, another paramedic has come up with an invention. This time it's Adam Nelson, a paramedic from Ohio, USA.

In an interview, a journalist asked 1 ___ his invention. All it is, Nelson said, is a small pocket sewn on the front of paramedics' trousers. The journalist asked him 2 ___ so important. Nelson said that during his medical training 3 ___ the need for a simple, reliable way to take notes. He said that when paramedics 4 ___ a patient they had to think fast and take notes, but had nowhere to write down the information. Nelson said 5 ___ many paramedics writing notes on their arms or gloves which wasn't very safe. He 6 ___ the journalist that some paramedics simply 7 ___ to remember information about their patients. In stressful situations, they could easily forget this information.

So Nelson 8 ___ with the idea of adding a small pocket for a notepad to the front of the trousers paramedics wear. `It was so simple,' Nelson 9 ___ .

After he got the idea, he asked his grandmother 10 ___ him make his first pocket. It took a couple of hours. Depending on sales of his new invention, it's quite possible that Nelson will earn from half to three quarters of a million dollars per year for his new invention!

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