Unit 5 Standard Test A

Language focus
Listening 6 Write sentences using the comparative or
superlative form of the adjectives. (10 marks)
1 [1.06] Listen to a conversation about music.
1 Usain Bolt / is / fast / man / in the world
What are Angela and Mike talking about?
________________________________
(2 marks)
2 London / is / big / Madrid
a how deaf and blind people enjoy music
________________________________
b Angela and Mike’s favourite music
3 Lions / are / dangerous / dogs
c two musicians with amazing abilities
________________________________

2 Listen again. Complete the sentences. Write one 4 What is / intelligent / animal?
or two words in each gap. (8 marks) ________________________________
1 Rodrigo couldn’t __________ at all. 5 Kate / is / good / swimmer / her sister
2 Braille is a special way of reading and writing for ________________________________
people who _____________.
7 Complete the sentences. Use the affirmative or
3 Rodrigo composed music for the ___________. negative forms of can and could and the verbs
4 When he was about ____________, Beethoven in the box. (10 marks)
started to go deaf.
cook play read speak swim

Vocabulary 1 My dad is a musician. He ____________ the

piano really well. (✓)
3 Match the words in the box with the definitions. 2 I don’t go to the swimming pool because I
(5 marks)
________. (✗)
3 My mum ____________ when she was young,
century decade kilometre minute day
but she’s a very good cook now. (✗)
1 24 hours _______ 4 My brother ____________ books when he was
2 10 years _______ two! He was very clever. (✓)

3 1000 metres _______ 5 Rosa is good at reading Japanese, but she

____________ it very well. (✗)
4 60 seconds _______
5 100 years _______ 8 Read the answers. Then write the questions.
Use how and the words in brackets. (10 marks)
4 Complete the sentences. (5 marks)
How high is Mount Everest?
1 There are 60 m_____ in one hour. Mount Everest is 8,848 metres high. (high)
2 Clara weighs 50 k______. 1 _______________________________________
3 There are 1000 years in a m_______. The Amazon River is 6,000 kilometres long. (long)
4 There are 365 d________ in a year. 2 _______________________________________
5 May is my favourite m_______. Dolphins can swim 10 kilometres an hour. (fast)
3 _______________________________________
5 Write the people for the verbs / nouns. (5 marks) London is about 500 kilometres from Paris. (far)
1 program – _______________ 4 _____________________________________
2 win – ______________ I don’t eat a lot of chocolate. I don’t like it.
(much)
3 write – ______________
5 _______________________________________
4 music – ______________ She plays football every day. (often)
5 art – ______________
Unit 5 Standard Test A
Reading
9 Read the text. Then complete the sentences with Communication
one or two words. (10 marks)
10 Complete the dialogue with the phrases in the
box. (10 marks)
A MEDICAL PRODIGY
Akrit Jaswal was born in India in 1993. His parents could can look the best way I suppose so
soon see that he was more intelligent than other
children. He could talk when he was only ten months old you can watch to learn how
and he could read and write at the age of two. He
1
started reading adult books when he was five. Medicine A I really want ______ to make chocolate cake.
was one of his favourite interests, and he decided to B Yeah?
become a doctor. When he was six years old, doctors in 2
a hospital said he could watch them. He spent many A What’s _______ to learn?
hours watching them and he also read a lot of books 3
B You _______ in a cookbook. I’m sure your
about medicine.
mum has got one.
Akrit went to university in India at the age of eleven to 4
A _________. But they’re usually difficult to
study medicine. He was younger than any other student
there. He wants to finish his studies in India and then go understand.
to Harvard University in America. When he was a small B
5
Well ________ videos on YouTube.
child, he saw people dying in the streets in India. They
couldn’t go to hospital because they were poor and A That’s a good idea.
didn’t have any money. Akrit wants to help people like
these in the future. He wants to give them better lives.
Writing
1 Akrit is from ______________. 11 Look at the information about the author J.K.
Rowling. Then write a biography of her. Write
2 He _____________ before he was a year old.
60–80 words. Use the paragraph plan to help
3 When he was a child, Akrit was interested in you. (10 marks)
______________.
4 Akrit went to university when he was Born 1965, west of England
___________. Education and work Went to Exeter
University
5 Akrit wants to help ___________ people who are
1983 (studied French),
ill. moved to London
(worked
in an office), moved to
Portugal 1990 (taught
English)

Famous for Harry Potter books

(published first in
1997). Now also films.

Paragraph 1: Summary of life

Paragraph 2: Education and work
Paragraph 3: Most famous for

Total marks: Listening _______ / 10 Vocabulary _______ / 15 Language focus _______ / 25

Reading _______ / 10 Communication _______ / 10 Writing _______ / 10 TOTAL _______ / 80