Phạm Vũ Gia Linh

Unit 1 Progress Test A

Grammar
1 Complete the dialogue. Use the past simple form of the verbs in brackets.
Sue 1
Were you go (you / go) to Jenny’s party last night?

Joe No, I 2 wasn’t. I stayed (stay) at home.

Sue I didn’t go either. My mum 3 wants (want) me to do my homework.

Joe Oh, I 4 forget (forget) to do mine! Was Jenny upset because we 5 (not be)
there?
Sue I don’t think so. All her other friends 6 (go), so she had a great time.

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2 Look at Peter’s diary and write sentences about the things that happened in the last four
days. Today is Friday.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

fall over / break my not go to school / go shopping / buy a lose my mobile  Tom’s birthday
arm watch DVDs all day birthday present for phone / can’t phone party!
Tom Tom

1 On Monday, Peter fell over and break his arm.

2 On Tuesday, he didn’t go to school so he watch DVDs all day.

3 On Wednesday, he went shopping and buy a birthday present for Tom.

4 On Thursday, he lost his mobile phone so he can’t phone Tom.

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3 Match the answers (a–f) with the questions (1–6). Then complete the questions using the past simple
form of the verbs below. There is one extra verb.

be call do go leave play pay

1 ‘What last weekend?’  a ‘Last Monday.’

2 ‘Where football on Saturday?’  b ‘It was £572!’

3 ‘Who shopping with last week?’  c ‘I went swimming.’

4 ‘What the weather like yesterday?’  d ‘Sarah and Judy.’

5 ‘How much for that computer?’  e ‘At the park.’

6 ‘When your grandmother?’  f ‘It rained again!’

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Vocabulary
4 Look at situations 1–10. How did the person feel in each situation? Match the adjectives below with
the situations.

anxious confused cross delighted embarrassed envious frightened proud relieved suspicious

1 My grandfather went out for a quick bike ride over three hours ago and he isn’t back yet.

2 I really need a computer, and my brother just got one for his birthday.
3 My friend gave me directions to her house, but the road names I see are different from the ones she gave me. I don’t
understand!
4 My parents told me that I‘m not having a birthday party, but I found lots of balloons in one of the cupboards.

5 After speaking to the head teacher, I looked in a mirror and noticed that I had chocolate around my mouth.

6 I won a competition to spend the day with my favourite band!

7 My mum watched me win a singing contest on TV.
8 It was dark and I was alone in the house when I heard a strange, loud noise downstairs.

9 My friend told me she dropped my favourite book in the bath last night.
10 After three and a half hours, my grandfather returned from his bike ride.

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5 Complete the sentences with the modifying adverbs below in the correct order from the most exciting
(question 1) to the least exciting (question 5).

a bit a little bit extremely rather very

1 I’m excited because my mum won twenty million pounds on the lottery!

2 My parents are taking me to Disneyland for my birthday and I’m excited!

3 My sister and I are meeting our cousins who live in Australia for the first time and we’re excited.
4 I’m excited because I’m playing in a football match tonight.
5 My favourite TV programme is on tonight so I’m excited.

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6 Complete the sentences with the correct words. The first letter of each word has been given.
1 Look at this! I cut my leg and b_ _ _ all over my trousers.

2 I can’t walk on this foot because I s___________my ankle yesterday.

3 That’s hot – be careful! Don’t b_____yourself.
4 It’s difficult to write because my w_______really hurts.
5 Paul i__________his arm at the weekend so he can’t come to school today.

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Use of English
7 Complete the dialogue with the words below.

amazing cool envious frustrating how kidding nightmare relief shame that

Jess I’m going on a road trip around America next summer!

Ben Really? What a 1 thing to do. I’m so 2 !

Jess And I’m going with my grandmother!
Ben You’re 3 ! Your grandmother? 4 sounds like a 5 !
Jess Not at all! She’s a famous photographer. She took photos of The Beatles when she was in her twenties.
We’re going to write a blog about our trip and maybe even a book.
Ben That’s 6 . Did you hear that I lost my phone last week with all of the photos from the school
trip?
Jess Not the photos that we were going to upload to the school website? What a 7 !
Ben Don’t worry, I found it eventually …
Jess Phew! What a 8 ! Where was it?
Ben It was on the train. But I had to spend about two hours on the phone to the company trying to find it.

Jess Two hours on the phone – how 9 !

Ben Yeah, well it’s all ok now. Anyway good luck with your road trip. 10
exciting!

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Listening
8  1 Listen to four people talking about events in the past. Match the speakers (1–4) with the
statements (A–E). There is one extra statement.
A Speaker was embarrassed about taking a break.
B Speaker was anxious about talking to someone.
C Speaker was relieved to find out the truth.

D Speaker was ashamed about telling a lie.

E Speaker was proud of winning an award.

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Reading
9 Read the text. Match paragraphs A–E of the text with questions 1–7. There are two extra questions.

The most dangerous journey

How do you feel about car journeys? Do you get a bit bored, ask the driver how long it’s going to take, and then fall asleep? Or do you get
The North Yungas road in Bolivia goes from La Paz, which is a very large city to the town of Coroico in the mountain region of the Amazon
69 km long, but in that short distance it goes down from about 4,650 m high to 1,200 m. Although it is only about three metres wide and th
When I went to visit my friend Jacqueline in La Paz, I had no idea how dangerous the North Yungas road was. I was very excited about th
It was only when the journey started that I began to feel frightened. The bus drove right to the edge of the road many times, and when I loo
When we met another car coming the other way, we drove so close to the edge of the road that a wheel seemed to go off the edge. This h

In which paragraph does the writer tell us ...

1 how many people die on the road?

2 about feelings people have when they travel?

3 about an injury that she had?

4 about dangerous weather?
5 that someone wanted her to see the sights?
6 how expensive the trip was?
7 that she thought she might die?

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Writing – Padlet

Mark: / 10

Total: / 70

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