PLACEMENT TEST A2 Grammar 1 Underline the correct words. Jim: Ben: Jim: Ben: Jim: Ben: Jim: Hi Ben. What 0 were you doing / did you do when I saw you yesterday? I 1 was waiting / waited for my sister to arrive from Brighton. What 2 were you doing / did you do when you saw me? I 3 was driving / drove to the cinema. What 4 were you seeing / did you see? High School Musical 5. It was terrible. What time 5 was it finishing / did it finish? At 11.30. It was a long film. 2 Complete the sentences. Use the correct comparative or superlative of the adjectives in brackets. 0 My mum is the oldest (old) child in her family. 1 My classmate Rania is... (good) at English than at Maths. 2 We were... (interested) in watching the football than eating our dinner. 3 My nephew Charlie is... (tall) student in his class. 4 This is... (funny) Mr. Bean film. 5 Wow! Your little brother is... (noisy) than I remember.
3 Look at the prompts. Write first conditional sentences with unless or if. 0 Christina / not win / be lucky Christina won t win unless she s lucky. 1 you / not get better / not eat more fruit and vegetables 2 Angie / be angry / I borrow her shoes 3 they / miss the bus / they hurry up 4 United / not beat Arsenal / their best player / be injured 5 those kittens / die / we not give them some food 4 Complete the sentences with the present simple passive form of the verbs in the box. see eat play build make consider 0 Switzerland is considered to be a beautiful country. 1 Some cars... to last hundreds of thousands of kilometres. 2 My house... with environmentally-friendly material. 3 Italian food... all over the world. 4 Shakespeare s plays... in theatres everywhere. 5 Football... in most countries.
5 Rewrite the sentences using the second conditional. 0 With more money I could buy a car. If I had more money I would buy a car. 1 I hope Marco invites me. It will make me very happy. If Marco.... 2 Maria might get a good mark in Maths. She can go to university. If Maria.... 3 I don t have Tom s number. I can t call him. If I.... 4 Sheila doesn t have time. She can t go shopping. If Sheila.... 5 We are so tired. We won t go skiing. If we.... Listening 6 Listen to an interview with Thomas, a young athlete taking part in the European karate championships. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)? 2 0 The programme talks about sport. T 1 Thomas came fourth in the competition.... 2 He has a clear idea of the mistakes he made.... 3 His coach thinks he was better than his opponent.... 4 He expected to do better.... 5 He started doing karate recently.... 6 His mum decided what sport he could do.... 7 He trains hard before competitions.... 8 He is worried about his school exams.... 9 He doesn t want to go to university next year.... 10 He wants to carry on doing karate.... /10 marks
7 Listen to a DJ called Stu talking on the radio about a new CD by a famous band. Underline the correct answer: a), b) or c). 4 1 The Icons has a) two guitarists and a drummer 2 Susie Weston is b) one guitarist and one drummer c) one guitarist, one drummer, and a keyboard player a) the guitarist b) the drummer c) the singer 3 The band became famous a) recently b) last year c) yesterday 4 The band a) are going on tour in Europe b) live in London c) are releasing a record next month 5 Tickets for the concerts a) have sold out b) are on sale online c) are for sale in big cities /10 marks
Reading 8 Read the sentences about a man who is not happy with his job. Then read the text. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)? 0 The writer is still working. T 1 In the morning he answered an email from a local football team.... 2 He isn t happy about saying no to the sponsorship.... 3 His boss is not pleased with his work.... 4 He thinks his job is no longer interesting.... 5 He is very confident about his job because he has worked in it for a long time.... 6 He studied marketing at university.... 7 He wants to change his job.... 8 He thinks working with disabled children isn t serious enough.... 9 Disabled children find it difficult to make friends.... 10 He thinks it wasn t a good idea to accept the marketing job....
It s nine o clock in the evening. I ve been in my office all day and I m feeling very tired. I ve just finished answering the last email of the day. It was a request for a sponsorship from a local football team. Sorry, but we haven t got any money to invest at the moment, is our answer. I feel bad about refusing to support them as we have done for the last five years but my boss says that we have to find other marketing ideas. I don t like my job anymore. I ve felt depressed about it for quite a long time now and it s clear to me that the moment has come to make a decision about what I want to do. I ve worked for this company since 2003 and I know everything about my job. This should be an advantage, but I ve begun to find it more and more boring. I m a marketing manager and this is what I studied at university so I should be pretty pleased about it. And I was, until one morning six months ago when I woke up without any energy. All I wanted was to stay in bed and not go to work. At first I thought I was just a bit tired, but now I know it s something more serious than that. I need a change and I need it now. But what type of change? We spend so much time at work that it influences our life enormously. Feelings are not important in my job, only money, sales and competition. This is not what I want. I ve thought about this for a while and I now realize that what I really want to do is work with disabled children again. When I was at university I had a part-time job with a company which organized events for children and teenagers with disabilities. It was great fun. We took kids in wheelchairs to rock concerts, we asked actors to read books to blind children and a lot more. It was great seeing what pleasure these simple things gave to these young people who had a more difficult life than their friends. When I finished my degree I decided I wanted a serious career and I accepted the job with the company I currently work for. Was it the right thing to do? It probably was at the time. But it isn t anymore and I have to find the courage to give it up and start all over again. /10 marks
Writing 9 Read the letter from your English friend. Then write a letter to Jenny and answer her questions. Use Jenny s letter as a model. Write 100 120 words. I ve just seen the film Wall-e, and it was very scary. It s about a world that s full of rubbish and there are no plants because they can t grow. The rainforests have disappeared and there are dramatic climate changes. People are talking about going to live on other planets. Do you think it might happen? Will things get better if we all do something to save our planet? What should we do? Please tell me what you think! Love, Jenny
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