REVIEW: Units 1–8

GROUP B

Name: ________________________ 3 Complete the text. Choose the correct option.

Class: ________________________ Our teacher has just 0 appeared / come / seen in the
VOCABULARY news because she’s written a 1 play / plot / poem
1 Choose the correct options, A, B or C. about Charles Dickens that is on at our local theatre.
0 Ellie lowered her ___ so nobody could hear her. Unfortunately I can’t go and see it because I’ve got
A head B voice C eyebrows D shoulders flu and have to 2 get / go / stay in bed. It’s 3 causing /
driving / pushing me mad being stuck in bed for a
1 Kim has the funniest hand ___ when she talks.
week but I do feel terrible and sleep all day. I
A contacts B movements
certainly don’t suffer from 4 insomnia / dyslexia /
C gestures D expressions
asthma. Being at home all day gives me chance to
2 Did you see the new TV ___ for that car? read the book about 5 portrait / abstract / graffiti art I
A poster B slogan C commercial D logo got out of the library last week.
3 He designs book ___ for a big company. /5
A covers B chapters
C novels D characters GRAMMAR
4 The newspaper ___ were all about the sports match. 4 Complete the text using the verbs in brackets
A designs B techniques in the correct tenses.
C flyers D headlines Yesterday my friend and I 0 were told (tell) to see the
5 You’re looking very ___. Have you been in the sun? head teacher. We 1
A slim B tanned C pale D coloured _______________________________ (must/see)
her at the end of the day. However, she
6 He ___ his leg playing rugby.
2 _______________________________ (tell) us that
A infected B depressed
we 3_______________________________ (win) the
C pained D injured
school art competition which
7 I ___ my job yesterday because I hated it so much. 4 _______________________________ (hold) at our
A fired B gave C quit D signed
school last month. Because we
8 How long did it ___ you to get to the airport? 5 _______________________________ (do) so well,

A make B give C take D last the painting 6 _______________________________

9 Patrick is a best-selling ___ of fantasy novels. (put) into the national competition. If our painting
A reporter B editor C designer D author wins that competition, we
7 _______________________________ (get) a
10 He ___ himself on winning the race.
A told B congratulated fantastic prize – a trip to Florence to visit the art
C boosted D challenged galleries. I don’t know if we
8 _______________________________
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(manage/win) but it’s very exciting.
2 Complete the text. Use one word in each gap.
I 9 _______________________________ (not/can)
The first letter is given.
paint very well when I came to this school, but our art
Georgia has just won an 0 award for a painting she
teacher is really good. If I hadn’t met her,
did last term. She made a poster about different
I 10 _______________________________ (not/win)
forms of body language, which was both very funny
this competition, I’m sure.
and informative. The facial 1 e____________ she
showed were hilarious. Georgia loves to give new /10
things a 2 g____________ and is now making a
poster to stop people throwing so much rubbish
3 a__________. Her pictures show a lot of rubbish in

the street and a boy shaking his 4 h____________

and looking miserable. In the next picture he’s putting
the rubbish into recycling bins. Another student gives
him a big 5 h____________ to say ‘thank you’.
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 REVIEW: Units 1–8

GROUP B

5 Complete the second sentence so that it has USE OF ENGLISH

the same meaning as the first. Use the word in
CAPITALS. 6 Complete the email. Use one word in each
gap.
0 She can’t see him until Monday. ABLE
Hey, Josh, how are you 0 doing? You asked me to tell
She isn’t able to see him until Monday.
you if the film was any good. I saw it last night and
1 You mustn’t eat food in the computer room. 1 ____________ first I was quite impressed

ALLOWED 2 ____________ the way they told the story. The only

You ____________________________________ disappointing 3 ____________ about it was the

food in the computer room. characters. By the end I was not so happy with it. All
2 It wasn’t necessary to arrive early. HAVE in 4 ____________, I think it’s worth seeing, but
We ____________________________________ compared 5 ____________ the others in the series,
early. it’s not the best I 6 ____________ ever seen.
3 I will be able to finish this essay by 5 pm. By the way, that new video game is 7 ____________
MANAGE sale next month, 8 ____________ it? We can order it
9 ____________ advance. We can 10 ____________
I ____________________________________
this essay by 5 pm. both buy it or I can buy this one and you buy the
4 It was necessary to take our books. HAD next. What do you think?
We ____________________________________ /10
our books.
7 Complete the dialogue with phrases from the
5 You should listen to your parents. WERE box. Use capitals if necessary. There are more
If I ____________________________________ than you need.
to your parents.
be wrong I’m concerned look at my opinion
6 Someone has sent the essays to the teacher. not sure about one personally seems to me
BEEN this one was trying to say you ask me
The essays you mean you thought
____________________________________ to A: Which magazine are you going to buy?
the teacher. B: This 0 one, I think. It’s about the environment.
7 ‘Don’t leave your bags in the classroom.’ TOLD A: Really That’s a boring magazine, Ana. Don’t you
The teacher like fashion magazines like
1 _________________ here?
____________________________________ our
B: No I don’t, Sarah. In 2 _________________,
bags in the classroom.
they’re awful.
8 I won’t come if the weather is really bad. UNLESS A: 3 _________________ these. They’ve got lots of
I’ll be there fashion photos and some great stories.
____________________________________ B: If 4_________________ they’re complete rubbish.
really bad. It 5 _________________ that people who read
these don’t care about the world.
9 I started living here in 1987. SINCE
A: What do 6 _________________ by that?
I ____________________________________
B: What I 7 _________________ is that there are far
1987. more important things to think about than fashion.
10 Next Monday morning I’m meeting the town Have 8 _________________ about trying a more
council. WILL serious magazine?
I ____________________________________ A: I’m not interested. But if I read one of your
magazines then you must read one of my fashion
next Monday morning. magazines.
/10 B: I’m 9 _________________that. I hate fashion.
A: I could 10 _________________, but I think you’ll
find that some of the stories in the magazine are
really interesting.
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