22 EM Test 3 28.02.

2024
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Date Score

GRAMMAR

1 Are the underlined words countable (C) or uncountable (U)?

1 I usually have a cup of hot chocolate when I get home from school. C / U

2 When you have some free time, let’s have a game of tennis. C / U

3 My brother works at the new furniture shop in Jacob Street. C / U

4 T here were a lot of mistakes in Suzy’s homework. C / U

5 T he word ‘banana’ comes from an African language. C / U

Score: /5

2 Complete the conversation with one word in each gap.

A: Hello. I’d like to ask you (1) questions about learning a language.
B: Yes, of course.
A: Great … so how (2) languages can you speak?
B: I can speak Italian and a (3) Spanish. I’m also learning English at school.
A: How often do you study English?
B: T hree times a week.
A: And does the teacher give you (4) homework?
B: Sometimes – but we don’t get (5) .
A: T hank you for your time.

Score: /5

VOCABULARY

3 Complete the sentences with one word in each gap.

1 People from Egypt are .

2 People in T hailand speak .
3 People in Poland speak .
4 People from Switzerland are .
5 People from Japan are .

Score: /5
 4 Add the pref ixes un-, in-, il-, ir- and im- to these words to make negative adjectives. Complete the sentences with
the adjectives. T here are two extra words.

correct formal happy legal possible regular visible

1 Designers have invented clothes that can make you . If you wear them, no one can see you!
2 I must memorise my list of verbs for tomorrow’s test.
3 Lots of people download films but they forget that it’s . You can get into trouble with the police.
4 He says he can speak 25 languages but I don’t believe him. T hat’s !
5 I was a little with my marks in the exam because I know I can do better.

Score: /5

5 Choose the correct alternatives to complete the text.

T he language I study at school is (1) Russia/Russian. It’s a fascinating language with its own alphabet – cyrillic –which is (2)
unusual/irregular as it doesn’t use roman letters. Last week I had to (3) take/make an exam and it was really difficult.
However, I hope that if I study more I’ll get better – it’s not (4) possible/impossible! – and be able to speak to native
speakers with (5) sincerity/confidence .

Score: /5

USE OF ENGLISH

6 Choose the best answer (A, B or C) to complete the text.

Can dogs (1) language? (2) animal lovers believe that their doggy friends can understand
every word they (3) to them, but is this really true? It is more probable that dogs generally understand the
way we say things and not the words (4) we say. So, for example, we can say ‘Walkies!’ and they get
excited, but it’s not (5) word ‘Walkies!’ that they recognise, it’s the lift in our voice – the intonation. We can
say another word with the same intonation and they get excited again! However, there are (6) types of dog
that can understand separate words. We can train these dogs to understand (7) of different words. T here
is one dog in Germany (8) can identify over 200 different toys. T he owner (9) the name of a
toy and the dog finds the correct one from (10) big group of toys. T his shows that doggy brains can give
meaning to language.
 1 A understand B translate C listen

2 A Lots B Much C Many

3 A tell B say C give

4 A that B what C who

5 A a B the C some

6 A few B any C some

7 A a lot B a few C some

8 A what B which C it

9 A tells B says C speaks

10 A one B a C the

Score: / 10

READING

A Eve

I can’t remember when I first started learning English because it was – and still is – the language my family speaks at
home. You see, my mum is English and she and my dad (who’s French) thought it was a good idea for their children to
speak English at home and French at school. It worked! My sisters and I speak both languages well, and I can go from
one to the other without thinking.

B Igor

I never learned English at school because the foreign language we learned there was Spanish. I think children today
learn English in school here – not like when I was young. I learned English when I worked in London for a year after
university. I was so worried about the language! But I found that after a few weeks I knew what people were saying
and I could say quite a lot. I think you learn a language best when you really need to, not just for passing exams at
school.

C Alina

My first English lessons were when I was about seven, at school, but we didn’t do very much! I don’t remember
anything from those lessons. We had one lesson every week and I forgot everything between the lessons. T he only
lesson that is still in my memory is when we imagined we were different fruits. I was a lemon and I walked around the
room saying ‘I am a lemon!’ I thought it was very silly!

D Manuela

I didn’t start learning English until I was 11 and it was so difficult. T here were 30 students in my class and we never
said anything in English. T he teacher taught us grammar rules and we learned long lists of vocabulary for tests. I didn’t
understand why I was learning this strange language. T he teacher didn’t show us English films or magazines and we
never played any games. T he lessons were boring, so I didn’t learn anything. I don’t think our teacher was very good!
7 Read the texts about when people started learning English. Match the comments (1–6) with the people (A–D).
You can choose the people more than once.

1 I think it’s important to have fun when you’re learning a new language.
2 I’m not the only one in my family who can speak two languages.
3 I didn’t speak any English in my first English lessons at school.
4 My parents are different nationalities.
5 It’s important to have a real reason to learn a language.
6 It didn’t take me long to learn English.

Score: /6

8 Complete the sentences with between one and three words in each gap.

1 Eve speaks English when she’s .

2 Igor thinks helped him learn English.
3 Alina found it difficult to things between lessons.
4 Manuela only studied in class.

Score: /4

9 Read the texts about when people started learning English and answer the questions.

1 When did Eve start learning English?

2 How well can Eve speak English and French?

3 What language did children in Igor’s school learn when he was a boy?

4 When did Alina start learning English?

5 What did Alina think about imagining she was a fruit?

6 How did Manuela feel about English classes at her school?

Score: /6