Module 2 Test Student B
Vocabulary
1 Complete the sentences with these words. There is one extra word.
advice / documentary / forecast / game / gossip / horoscope / interview / letter / local / puzzles / reports / reviews
A newspaper for your town or area is a local newspaper.
1 I’m keen on football and rugby. I always read the sports _______________ in the paper.
2 Sam wrote a _______________ to his local paper about recycling. It appeared in the paper last week.
3 Tell me when your birthday is and I’ll read out your _______________ for next week.
4 Do you prefer doing word or number _______________ ? I’m better with numbers.
5 My neighbour won £50,000 in a TV _______________ show last year.
6 Are you interested in _______________ about the private lives of celebrities?
7 There’s a _______________ about Egypt on TV tonight. It sounds really interesting.
8 The band’s new CD had good _______________ in most of the music magazines.
9 Did you see the _______________ with the Prime Minister on the TV news last night?
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10 There’s some good _______________ about health in this magazine.
2 Complete the compound adjectives with the correct forms of the words in brackets.
She wears brightly-__coloured__ clothes. (colour)
1 They’re hard-_______________ students who always do their homework. (work)
2 It was a well-_______________ holiday. (organise)
3 Professor Mitchell is a world-_______________ scientist. (fame)
4 His parents are quite easy-_______________ (go)
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5 The journey took five days. It seemed never-_______________ (end)
3 Complete the sentences with compound adjectives and nouns.
The winner is a girl who is six years old.
The winner is a __six-year-old girl__.
1 Jamie is a baby who is seven months old.
Jamie is a ______________________________.
2 Simon’s course at university takes three years.
Simon is doing a ______________________________ at university.
3 The oldest resident in the village is a woman who is ninety-one.
The oldest resident in the village is a ______________________________.
4 We’ve booked a holiday for ten days.
We’ve booked a .______________________________.
5 The singers are touring Europe for one year.
The singers are on a ______________________________ of Europe.
4 Find three more ‘negative’ words and two ‘positive’ words in the word square.
‘negative’ words ‘positive’ words
bad
1 _______________ 4 _______________
2 _______________ 5 _______________
3 _______________
Grammar
5 Complete the news story with the verbs in brackets in the Past Simple, Past Continuous or Past Perfect.
PARROT CATCHES BURGLAR
At 10 p.m. last night, Mrs King, a seventy-year-old widow, __went__ (go) to bed as usual. She 1_______________ (not know) that he 2_______________ (leave) the kitchen window slightly open. Or that a burglar 3_______________(watch) the house.
At midnight, the burglar 4_______________(climb) through the window into the kitchen. But, suddenly, he 5_______________ (hear) a very loud voice saying: ‘Put your hands up or I’ll shoot’.
Mrs King was awake and immediately 6 _______________ (phone) the police. When the police 7_______________ (arrive), the burglar 8_______________ (stand) in the middle of the kitchen with both hands above his head.
Mrs King’s husband 9 _______________ (be) a police sergeant and he 10_______________ (teach) Percy their parrot to say ‘Put your hands up or I’ll shoot!’
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6 Rewrite the sentences. Use the structure in the example.
After Joanna finished university, she worked abroad for several years.
After finishing university, Joanna worked abroad for several years.
1 Before she got her first interview, my sister had filled in about forty application forms.
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2 Before she became a reporter, Anita worked in a library.
3 After we went to the zoo, we had a pizza.
4 Before he left home, Mr Cooper turned off all the lights.
5 After he wrote the letter, Rob decided not to post it.
7 Complete the texts with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.
John enjoys 1 __playing_ (play) tennis. His father taught him 1 _______________ (play) when he was about seven years old. He always tries very hard 2 _______________ (win). He wants 3 _______________ (be) a professional tennis player one day. Now his sister is learning 4 _______________(play) tennis, too.
At the end-of-term, some of my friends suggested 5 _______________(have) a big party and so I decided 6 _______________(organise) it. At first, my parents didn’t want 7 _______________(have) it at our house. But then they agreed. They even offered 8_______________ (buy) all the food and drink. My friends and I promised 9_______________ (not / play) loud music after midnight....
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