Exercise 1 Exercise 2: Listening Reading

REVIEW TEST 1-6 • ANSWER KEY • GROUP B

Listening

Reading

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Can follow extended speech expressing unstructured ideas and thoughts.

Can infer what will come next in an unstructured text by using contextual, grammatical and lexical cues.

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D: link between the daughter’s illness, ‘… protracted time getting a diagnosis’ in the text and ‘… endless hospital visits …’ in paragraph D and the beginning of the next part of the text ‘ – Before my daughter’s illness.’

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B: link between ‘… a good three hours out of every day’ spent on Facebook in the text and the beginning of paragraph B – ‘Today those are filled with fresh air ….’ as well as the part of the text that follows: ‘As a result, I have more energy …’

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F: link between the last sentence in paragraph F – ‘Facebook isn’t real life’ and the sentence in the middle of the text which echoes the same words – ‘… it is very real ….’

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C: link – the use of personal pronoun she and object pronoun her in the text and paragraph C – the female acquaintance from Facebook and real life.

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A: link between ‘The site …’ at the beginning of the last paragraph and the pronoun It at the beginning of paragraph A.

B: ‘… we stopped off … to go for festivals in the woods. None of which I was that keen on to begin with …’ ‘… there were plenty of shops selling new age products which seemed to me a little too commercial and somewhat contrary to the whole concept I felt.’ ‘At times with the whole ship chanting and singing and banging on tables you could barely hear yourself think let alone meditate.’

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C: ‘… the event was quite formal at times, which required formal dress and shoes …’

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C: ‘I’d always wanted to take dancing classes so the idea of combining that with a cruise holiday was a bit like killing two birds with one stone – get away from it all and do something I’d wanted to do for ages.’

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A: ‘The one thing that did slightly [bother me] was that we only actually spent two days out of the six at sea.’ ‘I didn’t get to lie on the deck and soak the views as much as I’d hoped.’

Exercise 3 Can identify specific information in a linguistically complex factual text.

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FOCUS 5

PHOTOCOPIABLE

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A: ‘If you go to the right, the stroller goes to the right; if you stop suddenly, so will the pram.’

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A: ‘ … be the ultimate status symbol …’

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D: ‘… the user-friendly software can also measure the calories you burn …’

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B: ‘… unique state-of-the-art technology …’ , ‘patent pending’

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C: ‘ … rise and shine to a delicious scent of your choice …’, ‘… aromas such as freshly baked bread, Italian espresso and creamy hot chocolate … wild jungle and ocean breeze’

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A: ‘ … heavy shopping need not be a burden thanks to a handy storage compartment.’

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Exercise 4 1

A: According to (a new study) is an expression which means as (a new study) states. This word cannot be substituted by any other.

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D: (increases …) by up to 40 percent – by is used to show changes in measurements and amounts. This word cannot be substituted by any other.

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B: In comparison to is an expression used to compare two (groups of) items. This word cannot be substituted by any other.

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C: (But) otherwise is an expression which means except for what has just been said. This word cannot be substituted by any other.

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A: Scale is a set of numbers, amounts, etc., used to measure or compare the level of something; one ranks things on a scale. This word cannot be substituted by any other.

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D: Where is a relative pronoun introducing a defining relative clause describing the experiment. This word cannot be substituted by any other.

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C: Explanation is the only logical word here, the others don’t fit logically.

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C: Password is usually a sequence of letters and/or numbers needed to get full access to an account. This word cannot be substituted by any other.

Exercise 5 1

am I always the last to: Numerals, like last, require the use of an infinitive.

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will be fewer and fewer: Comparative forms are used to show that a given quality is constantly changing; in the transformed sentence self-checkouts are substituted by checkouts manned by staff – hence the logical change from a much more common sight to fewer and fewer.

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had the opportunity to compete: The noun opportunity needs to be followed by an infinitive.

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is the fastest ever: the fastest ever means the fastest that has ever existed.

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have been ripping me off: To rip someone off means to intentionally charge someone excessively for a product or service; in the transformed sentence the Present Perfect Simple needs to be changed to the Present Perfect Continuous to show the process, which is indicated by the subsequent clause (I should have been paying).

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keeping tabs on: To keep tabs on someone or something means to watch them carefully; a gerund is used as the subject of the sentence.