Scribd
Upload
44 views

Reading Writing Sample

Here is a 35-word story based on the pictures: The boy was playing with his toy car in the garden. Suddenly, the wind picked up and blew the car onto the road. He saw a truck coming and ran out to rescue his toy just in time before it was hit. He was very relieved to have saved his car.

Uploaded by

Ganesh Kumar M
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
44 views

Reading Writing Sample

Here is a 35-word story based on the pictures: The boy was playing with his toy car in the garden. Suddenly, the wind picked up and blew the car onto the road. He saw a truck coming and ran out to rescue his toy just in time before it was hit. He was very relieved to have saved his car.

Uploaded by

Ganesh Kumar M
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 11

Reading: Part 1 -5

Part 1 For questions 1 – 6, choose the correct answer.


Part 2: For questions 7 – 13, choose the correct answer.

Young blog writers

Tasha

Last year I wrote for my college magazine, which I found really difficult, but I don’t think it’s
hard to write a good blog. Mine is about things from daily life that make me laugh. My older
brother also has a blog, but we’re writing about different subjects. We don’t discuss what
we’re planning, but we read each other’s blogs sometimes. I like giving advice to people
who write in asking for it – it’s good to know I’ve helped.

Danni

I started writing my popular film blog because I love movies. I like it when readers send me
articles by email about a film they’ve seen, and I put these on my blog for everyone to read.
I’m still at college, so I’m careful about spending too long on my blog, which is difficult as
writing well takes time. I don’t think I’ll write it for much longer. I’m busy, and it’s time to do
something new.

Chrissie

I began writing on a school magazine. I stopped after a few years, but I missed it, so I
started my own – I’m still writing it now! The blog’s new for me, and I write about daily life. I
get ideas from friends or my sister when I can’t decide what to write about – we always
think of something interesting, sad or serious. At first, almost nobody visited my site, but
now more do, I’ve had some lovely comments.
Part 3: For questions 14 – 18, choose the correct answer.

A family of dancers

The women in the Watson family are all crazy about ballet. These days, Alice
Watson gives ballet lessons, but for many years, she was a dancer with the
National Ballet Company. Her mother, Hannah, also had a full-time job there,
making costumes for the dancers.

Alice’s daughter Demi started learning ballet as soon as she could walk. ‘I
never taught her,’ says Alice, ‘because she never let me.’ Now aged sixteen,
Demi is a member of the ballet company where her mother was the star
dancer for many years.

Alice’s husband, Jack, is an electrician. They met while he was working at a


theatre where she was dancing and got married soon after. ‘When Demi
started dancing, the house was too small for her and Alice to practise in so I
made the garage into a dance studio. Now the living room is nice and quiet
when I’m watching television!’ he says.

Last month, Demi was invited to dance in the ballet Swan Lake. Of course,
Alice and Hannah were in the audience and even Jack was there, which made
it very special for Demi. Jack says, ‘I’m not that interested in ballet myself but
it’s fantastic seeing Demi taking her first steps with Alice’s old company!’ Demi
was wearing a dress that Hannah made for Alice many years before.

‘It was very exciting for all of us,’ says Hannah. ‘Demi’s way of dancing is very
like Alice’s. I know I’m her grandmother, but I think she has a great future!’
Part 4 For questions 19 – 24, choose the correct answer.

William Perkin was born in London in 1838. As a child he had many hobbies,
including model making and photography. But it was the 19 ____________of
chemistry that really interested him. At the age of 15, he went to college to
study it.

While he was there, he was 20________________ to make a medicine from


coal. This didn’t go well, but when he was working on the problem, he found
a cheap 21___________ to make the colour purple. At
that 22________________ it was very expensive to make clothes in different
colours. William knew he could make a business out of his new colour.
Helped by his father and brother, William 23________________ his own
factory to make the colour. It sold well, and soon purple
clothes 24_____________very popular in England and the rest of the world.
Part 5: For questions 25 – 30, write the correct answer. Write one word for each gap.

From: Maria

To: John

I hope you are well. I’m having a great holiday here in Thailand. Our hotel is
very nice and there are a lot of good restaurants near it.

Yesterday morning, we went to 25__________ lovely beach. We had to


leave before lunch because it was very hot. We went to a
party 26____________ the evening in the centre 27___________ the
town. Everyone had a good time and we got back at midnight. Tomorrow, we
want to 28___________ on a boat trip or 29_______________tennis.

I'll show you my photos 30__________ I get back.

See you soon,

Maria
Writing: Part 6 Answer the question below. Write 25 words or more.

You want to go swimming on Saturday with your English friend, Toni.


Write an email to Toni.

In your email:

 ask Toni to go swimming with you on Saturday


 say where you want to go swimming
 say how you will travel there.

Write your email in the box on the right.


Part 7:
Look at the three pictures. Write the story shown in the pictures. Write 35 words or more in the box
below.

You might also like