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NAME: .........................................................................................................................................

A. USE OF ENGLISH

1. Match the words to make expressions. There’s an extra word.

1. sell-by a. queue 1.

2. a carton of b. crossing 2.

3. browse c. milk 3.

4. zebra d. comment 4.

5. nasty e. date 5.

f. all items

2. What are the verbs? – Fill in the gaps with the right form of a verb.

1. A burglar ................................... into their house when they were on holiday.

2. The driver .................................. quickly, but he couldn’t stop. He ....................... into the car in front of it.

3. Customer: This box of chocolates is a present. Can you ....................... it for me, please? Shop-assistant: Yes, of course.

Customer: How much do you ....................... for it?

3. In a supermarket − Write what the customer says.

You need: a packet of crisps, some cheddar cheese (200 g)You don’t have a credit card.

Shop assistant: Can I help?

You: (1) ....................................................................................................................................Shop assistant: The crisps? They’re in the next aisle on the right.

At the cheese counter

You: (2) ....................................................................................................................................Shop assistant: Anything else?

You: (3) ....................................................................................................................................

At the check-out

Shop assistant: How would you like to pay?

You: (4) ....................................................................................................................................Shop assistant: Here’s your change and your receipt.

You: (5) ....................................................................................................................................Shop assistant: Yes, sure, but they aren’t free. They are 20p each.You: Oh, I don’t need one then. I don’t have many things to carry, really.

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4. Add “to” in the as needed.

0. She got me give her your address.

1. I would like you bring me something from Paris.

2. Do you prefer show bad test results your father or your mother?

3. Do you want add this item the basket?

4. She prefers going the cinema going the disco.

5. Fire in the park – Put the verbs in the right tense.

Yesterday I (1) ..................................... (jog) in the park when I (2) ..................................... (see) some smoke

above the trees. I (3) ..................................... (find out) that a rubbish bin (4) ..................................... (burn).

I (5) ..................................... (put) some water on the fire from my water bottle, and in a few minutes the

fire (6) ..................................... (not burn) any more.

B. SKILLS

6. Listening – Listen to a telephone conversation in which a witness calls the police. Write the letter of the correct answer in the boxes.

1. The caller needs help from A the police. B the ambulance. C both the police and the ambulance.

2. The people on the motorbike A hit the lady. B took the lady’s handbag. C hit the lady and took her handbag.

3. The caller was A walking behind the lady. B riding a motorbike. C walking in front of the lady.

4. The lady fell because A the motorbike hit her. B she had a shock. C they pulled her bag very hard.

5. The muggers were A two big men; they were wearing dark hoodies and riding on a red motorbike. B a big and a small person; they were wearing dark hoodies and riding a red motorbike. C a big and a small person; they were wearing red hoodies and riding a dark blue motorbike.

6. The lady is A lying on the ground on the zebra crossing. B lying on the ground, but not on the road. C lying in the ambulance.

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7. Reading – Read the article about eBay. Put these removed sentences back into the gaps. There is an extra sentence.

A. She was collecting them at the time.

B. Also, you can check the seller.

C. However, there is a list of items you can’t trade on eBay like drugs, alcohol or tobacco.

D. eBay’s head office is in an energy-saving building.

E. more than making a serious offer.

F. Perhaps your best choice is eBay.

G. This is exactly what eBay does.

eBay

Would you like to buy something unusual, like an empty chocolate box, or do you want sell, say, a broken camera?

(1) ............ With more than 97 million active users glo bally (as of 2011), eBay is the world’s largest online marketplace. Anyone can buy and sell practically anything there. (2) ............ In 2010, the total value of goods sold on eBay was $62 billion – more than $2,000 every second.

It’s become legend that Pierre Omidyar, the “father” of eBay, wrote software in 1995 to help his girlfriend to trade Pez sweets boxes. (3) ............ Another legend has it that eBay goes back to a single broken laser pointer. When Omidyar offered the broken pointer for sale on his website, he was joking (4) ............ He was shocked when the item sold for $14.83. He contacted the buyer to ask if he under-stood that the pointer was broken. “I’m a collector of broken laser pointers,” came the reply. Omidyar understood then that for nearly anything anyone wants to sell, there is a buyer somewhere. You just need to bring the two together in a safe environment. (5) ............

If you buy something on eBay, you can decide to buy the item for a fixed price or to offer a price. If your price is the best offer, you win, and you can buy the item for a lower price than the fixed price. (6) ............ All the buyers rate sellers between one to five stars. If a seller has, say 4.5 stars on average from many buyers, go ahead, you can trust him or her. If you sell, you can decide how you want to sell. You can go for a fixed price, the best offer or a mix of the two. This way, eBay has become a huge com-munity of sellers and buyers with a bigger variety of goods than anywhere else.

Sources: http://ebay.about.com/od/ebaylifestyle/a/el_history.htm; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay;

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-03-21-ebay-cover_x.htm; http://www.ebayinc.com/who

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8. Writing – You saw the accident in the photo from your window.

Write an email to a friend in which you tell him/her what you saw. Include the following:

• Greet your friend and introduce the topic.

• What were you doing when the accident happened?

• How did the accident happen? What were the drivers of the two cars and the bus doing?

• How did you react? How did other people react?

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Content Language Organisation

Task fulfilment Clarity Range Accuracy Appropriacy Format Paragraphing

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