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Unit 1 Test A & B Paul What other special days do you like?
Exercise 11
Kirsty I love Christmas! It s a special time for me.
Interviewer Hello and welcome to The Music I like being at home with my parents and
Show. On today s show, we have my sister. I like Halloween, too.
three members of the indie rock
Paul What do you do at Halloween?
band Showdown, Paul Green,
Kirsty We have a lot of fun. We all wear
Mike Turner and Andy Rowlands.
Halloween costumes  witches, vampires,
Welcome.
ghosts, you know. And we listen to music
Paul, Mike and Andy Hello!
and dance.
Interviewer Where are you all from?
Paul It s Bonfire Night tomorrow. Are you
Andy We re from Newport in Wales, but doing anything special?
we all live in London now.
Kirsty Yes! My dad s got some fireworks and
Interviewer Who writes your songs, Paul? some of my friends are coming to our
house for a party and to watch the
Paul I don t write songs. I don t like
fireworks.
writing music! Mike and Andy write
all our songs. Paul Do you eat anything special on Bonfire
Night?
Interviewer What are your musical influences,
Mike? Kirsty Yes! We always have hotdogs and we
drink hot tea because the weather s
Mike We have a lot of different musical
usually really cold. How about you, Paul?
influences. We like traditional jazz,
What special days do you celebrate?
blues, and Andy loves Irish music.
We re also big fans of American Paul My birthday, of course. It s tomorrow!
bands like REM and Kings of Leon.
Kirsty Great! What are you doing?
Interviewer Is there any music you don t like?
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Paul Uh ... We don t like R&B much and
we hate dance music and techno!
Unit 3 Test A & B
Interviewer What instruments do you play,
Exercise 10
Andy?
James What do you want to do when you leave
Andy I m the singer. I don t play an
school, Anna?
instrument. Paul plays the guitar
Anna Hmm & there are a lot of jobs I d like to
and he also sings. Mike s the
do. And a lot that I don t want to do!
drummer. We also have a bass
guitarist and a keyboard player but
James What don t you want to do?
they aren t here tonight.
Anna Well, I don t want to be a taxi driver.
Interviewer When is your next gig?
James Why not?
Paul We re playing in London on
Anna I think it s a boring job. They just drive
Saturday. After that, we re going
around the city all day.
on tour around the UK and Europe
 Germany, Spain, France and
James I see.
Holland. See you there!
Anna And I don t want to be a hairdresser. My
sister s a hairdresser, but I don t want to
work in the same place every day.
Unit 2 Test A & B
Exercise 10
James So what do you want to do?
Paul What special days do you celebrate,
Anna Hmm & maybe a judge. It s an interesting
Kirsty?
job, but it s difficult. No, I want to be a
police officer. I think it s an exciting job!
Kirsty Well, I always celebrate my birthday, of
What do you want to do?
course. It s on 4th July.
James I want to be a mechanic or a builder.
Paul What do you do?
Anna Do builders get a lot of money?
Kirsty We always have a big party at my house.
All my friends bring me presents. It s
great!
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James Yes, sometimes. What about police Unit 5 Test A & B
officers? Do they get a lot of money? Exercise 11
Anna Not really. But money isn t important to I m Karen and this is my true story. When I
me. was 12 years old I went on a winter holiday
with my parents and my brother. We went to
James Yes. I want an interesting job, not a lot of
a small village in Austria. It was in the middle
money.
of the mountains and it was really beautiful.
There was a lot of snow and we went skiing
every day. It was great fun and I loved it!
Unit 4 Test A & B
Exercise 10
On the last day of our holiday our parents
stayed at the hotel because they wanted to
Robert What do you think about reality shows,
pack the suitcases. I decided to go skiing with
Jane? Do you like them?
my brother. The weather was quite bad that
Jane I love reality shows. I watch programmes
morning. It was grey and cloudy and it was
like Big Brother and Pop Idol.
snowing hard. We skied through a forest for
more than an hour and then we decided to
Robert What s Big Brother?
go back to the hotel.
Jane You know! A group of people live in a
We started skiing back to the village. It was
house together and we can see and hear
snowing very hard and it was difficult to see
everything that they do.
the way in the snow. After an hour we were
Robert Oh, yes. I know. It s called Loft Story in
still in the forest and we couldn t see the
my country. I think it s a bit boring!
village. I was very scared and we were both
very cold. My brother used his mobile phone
Jane I don t think so. The people in the house
to call our parents. We waited for half an
are trying to win a prize, so they do a lot
hour and then they found us. My dad was
of funny things.
quite angry. He said it was dangerous to ski in
Robert And what do they win?
the forest when the weather is bad. We went
Jane Ł100,000! The TV viewers decide who back to the hotel and drank some hot tea.
stays in the house and who leaves, and at I decided never to go skiing in bad weather
the end there s one winner. again!
Robert I see. Do you watch it every week?
Unit 6 Test A & B
Jane No ... I watch it every night! It s on at
Exercise 9
nine o clock and I always watch it.
Presenter On Travelworld Today we ve got
Robert What do your parents think about it?
William Jones in the studio. He s
Jane They don t like it! They only like the
from Britain, but he came back from
news. It s so boring!
a skiing holiday in Kazakhstan last
week. William, when we think of
Robert It isn t. I watch the news every day.
skiing holidays we usually think of
Jane Really? What other programmes do you
Switzerland, Italy or France. People
watch?
from Europe don t usually think of
going to Kazakhstan to ski!
Robert I love watching football. I like Champions
League football matches. And I
William Exactly  people go to the same
sometimes watch documentaries.
places every year. Well, I wanted to go
somewhere new and exciting, so for
Jane I never watch documentaries. Oh!
my winter holiday this year I decided
It s nearly nine o clock  time for Big
to go skiing in Kazakhstan.
Brother ...
Presenter Was the skiing good?
Robert OK! Bye, Jane. Go and watch your
favourite show!
William The skiing there was just fantastic!
Kazakhstan has a very long winter and
Jane Bye, Robert!
really good snow for skiing, and there
are a lot of mountains. It s perfect!
I love skiing and this was my best
holiday.
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Presenter Were there a lot of people? Cathy Yes, but people do these jobs already. I
think that in the future we will all work
William Not at all. It was very quiet. But
less than we do now. Machines will do
Kazakhstan wants more visitors. It has
everything. We can have longer holidays
spent about Ź 13 million building new
and spend more time travelling, meeting
hotels and ski-lifts recently. It wants
friends and doing sport.
more than one million people to go
skiing there each year. Ben I hope you re right. But you re only
thinking of the good things. More
Presenter How long does it take to get to
technology will bring problems, too. If
Kazakhstan?
robots do all the work, there won t be
William Well, that s the only problem. It takes
jobs for everyone.
about eight hours by plane from the
Cathy You re so pessimistic, Ben. We re lucky
UK and the flight is quite expensive.
that technology is getting so much
But when you are in Kazakhstan,
better. It will have more advantages than
hotels and restaurants are much
disadvantages.
cheaper than they are in Europe. And
I think that you have a much better Ben Well, I suppose we ll have to wait and see.
time.
Presenter Sounds great! William, thanks for
Unit 8 Test A & B
coming in today.
Exercise 10
William Thank you. Bye.
Becky I know you love travelling, Joe. So what s
your dream trip?
Unit 7 Test A & B Joe Well, my dream is to travel around the
Exercise 10 world in 80 days. And one day I m
going to do it!
Ben Hello, Cathy! Did you read the book I
gave you? Becky And where are you going to go?
Cathy Future World? Yes. It was very interesting. Joe First I m going to fly to America, hire a car
I like the idea that computers and robots and drive right across the whole country.
will do all our housework in the future. I m going to start on the east coast, drive
past the Mississippi River and then travel
Ben Yes! Computers are important today and I
to the Grand Canyon.
think that they will be in the future, too.
Factories will probably use more robots Becky And then?
in the future, but I don t think people
Joe I m going to fly to Hawaii and do some
will have them in their houses to do the
surfing before I go to New Zealand and
cooking and cleaning.
Australia.
Cathy That s a pity. I hate housework!
Becky What are you going to do there?
Ben The book says that people will have more
Joe In Australia I m going to do scuba diving!
free time in the future. What do you
And I m going to see the Great Barrier
think?
Reef.
Cathy Well, I think people will do less work.
Becky That sounds fantastic!
New technology means that we can do
Joe Yes, it s going to be great! Now it s your
things much faster than before.
turn. Imagine your perfect trip. What are
Ben Maybe, but new technology can mean
you going to do?
more work, too.
Becky Hmm. I m going to travel across Europe
Cathy What do you mean?
first, probably by train  I like trains  and
Ben Well, if there s a new computer or robot, then I m going to go to Egypt. I want to
someone has to programme it and see the pyramids.
someone has to fix it when it goes wrong.
Joe And after that?
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Becky I m going to go to India  I love Indian Jack Hmm, where should I start? Well,
food, especially curry! Then, after India I ve been to Antarctica. That was
I m going to travel to Thailand. fantastic. It was really beautiful
but freezing cold! Most days it was
Joe And where are you going to go next?
minus 40 degrees and it was also
Becky Probably to Australia. I can meet you
very windy. I ve also been to Alaska,
there!
where I walked from the north
coast across the mountains to the
Joe Yes! And you can tell me all about the
south coast. And I ve travelled by
places you went to and I can visit them on
canoe 1,500 kilometres down the
my way back to England.
Mississippi River in America.
Becky And I can learn all about America from
Interviewer Where are you planning to go next?
you and travel there later.
Jack Next month I m going to go to
Joe Brilliant! See you in Australia, then!
Australia. I m going to cycle across
Becky Yes, one day!
the desert from Perth on the west
coast to Sydney on the east coast.
Interviewer Incredible! How far is that?
Unit 9 Test A & B
Exercise 11
Jack 4,000 kilometres.
Interviewer Good evening and welcome to
Interviewer 4,000 kilometres? How long &
Survival Special, the programme
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that goes to some of the most
dangerous places on Earth. On the
programme tonight we are very
Revision 1 (Units 1-3) Test A & B
fortunate to have the explorer and
Exercise 15
adventurer, Jack Kelly.
Jamie How often do you go to the supermarket,
Jack Hello!
Aisha?
Interviewer Jack, tell us about your latest
Aisha Once a week, usually. I go on Friday
adventure. You ve just come back
nights after work. What about you?
from South America, is that right?
Jamie I usually go on Saturday mornings, but it s
Jack Yes, that s right. I ve been on an
very busy then. There are always a lot of
expedition to the River Amazon in
people. It s awful!
Brazil with three other adventurers.
We were looking for evidence of Aisha Yeah. That s why I do my shopping on
lost civilizations in the rainforest Friday nights. Do you buy organic food?
near the border with Peru, about
Jamie No, never. It s too expensive. And it tastes
2,000 kilometres north-west of
the same as ordinary food.
Brasilia.
Aisha Oh, Jamie, that isn t true! Organic food
Interviewer Wow! What did you find?
tastes much better. Think about ordinary
Jack Well, first of all we didn t find supermarket tomatoes. They aren t very
anything. We travelled by canoe nice but organic tomatoes taste great.
for more than a month through the
Jamie Mmm. I m not sure. Do you always go to
rainforest. And then suddenly we
the same supermarket?
found the ruins of an old city.
Aisha Yes, usually. There s one near my house. It
Interviewer Were there any people there?
takes about ten minutes on foot.
Jack No. We didn t see anyone for
Jamie There are three supermarkets close to my
hundreds of kilometres. No one
house, but I don t do all my shopping at
lives there. It s a long, long way
supermarkets. I use small shops in town,
from civilization.
too.
Interviewer Jack, you ve been to a lot of
interesting places. Can you tell us
about some of them?
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Aisha There aren t any small shops where I live. Tim So your parents think it s OK for you to
There s a department store, a cinema and watch horror films?
the supermarket. That s all.
Dawn My mum thinks it s OK. She watched Evil
Jamie That s a pity. I like small shops because Aliens with me. But we didn t tell my dad!
the assistants always talk to me. In the We said we saw a comedy!
newsagent s the shop assistants know my
Tim Dawn!
name. We have chats about the weather
or sport.
Revision 3 (Units 7-9) Test A & B
Aisha How nice! Well, the people in the
Exercise 15
supermarket don t know my name but
that isn t a problem. They re always
There s good news for people who like
friendly.
driving but don t want to harm the
environment. A new type of environmentally
friendly car is here. A British team built the
Revision 2 (Units 4-6) Test A & B
car and they hope that it will break the world
Exercise 14
record for fuel efficiency at the Shell Eco
Tim I didn t see you at the party on Friday, Marathon.
Dawn.
The new car doesn t use petrol or diesel. It
Dawn No. I went to the cinema to see the new runs on hydrogen and electricity. But it isn t
horror film, Evil Aliens. very fast. The top speed is only 48 kilometres
per hour. So it won t win the Grand Prix!
Tim Was it good?
Because it is made of carbon fibre and
Dawn Oh yes, it was great!
aluminium, the car is very light. This means
Tim But, Dawn, you re only 14. You aren t old
that it only needs 25 watts of electricity to
enough to see a horror film.
drive around the world. That s less electricity
than a light bulb!
Dawn You re wrong! It was my birthday last
week. Evil Aliens has a 15 certificate, so
Jack Dex, who is only 13 years old, will drive
now I m old enough to watch it.
the car. Like the car, he s small and light and
he is also an experienced go-kart driver.
Tim But horror films are for boys, not girls.
A team from Switzerland holds the world
Dawn I don t think so! There were a lot of girls
record. Their car also uses hydrogen. But Jack
in the cinema when I saw it. They loved it
thinks that he can beat them.
and they didn t scream. Well, not much.
Tim But what about the violence?
End-of-Year Test (Units 1-9) Test A & B
Exercise 13
Dawn I didn t think it was violent. Everyone
knows that what they re seeing isn t real.
Conversation 1
We see worse things on TV all the time.
Aaron What do you want to be when you leave
school, Liam?
Tim What do you mean?
Liam I don t know really. I d like to join the
Dawn Well, I think the news is more frightening
army and be a soldier, I think.
than a horror film because it s real.
Aaron That sounds dangerous to me!
Tim What? Do you really think the news is
more violent than a horror film?
Liam Yes, sometimes. But it s also very exciting.
What about you, Aaron? I know you like
Dawn Of course. Some of the things I see on the
acting.
news are terrible  and no one s acting!
It s all happening in the world.
Aaron Oh, that s just a hobby. I want to be a
doctor.
Tim I agree. But some films and video games
are violent.
Liam Wow! That will be interesting, but you ll
have to do a lot of work. My uncle s a
Dawn Maybe, but not this one.
doctor and he s always busy.
Tim So you weren t frightened?
Aaron Well, I don t mind hard work. If my job s
Dawn No. I think old horror films are more
interesting, I ll be happy.
frightening than new ones. Evil Aliens
was quite funny.
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Conversation 2
Millie Are you going anywhere interesting on
holiday this year, Reece?
Reece Yes, I m going to Iceland with my mum
and dad.
Millie Iceland! Why are you going there?
Reece Well, my mum is from Iceland originally.
But it will be my first visit  and my dad s.
Millie How exciting! Have a great time and let
me know what it s like.
Reece Yes, of course. I ll send you a postcard,
Millie.
Conversation 3
Harry The Discoverers is on tonight, Kat. Are
you going to watch it?
Kat No. Actually, we haven t got a TV at
home.
Harry You re joking! Why not?
Kat My parents say that TV stops children
talking to each other or to their parents.
They say children should spend their time
doing better things like reading books.
Harry What do you think about that?
Kat I hate it. My friends talk about TV
programmes and I don t know them.
I don t think there s anything wrong
with TV. It s good entertainment. And
programmes can give you a lot of
information about things, too.
Harry Well, do you want to come round to my
house to watch The Discoverers tonight?
Kat Thanks. I d love to!
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