Exercise 1 Exercise 2: Listening Reading

REVIEW TEST 1-6 • ANSWER KEY • GROUP A

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

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B: ‘… we stopped off … to go for festivals in the woods. None of which I was that keen on to begin with …’

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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A: link between the last sentence in paragraph A – ‘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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F: link – the use of personal pronoun she and object pronoun her in the text and paragraph F – the female acquaintance from Facebook and real life.

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

‘… 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.’ 3

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.’

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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.’

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

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

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A: ‘ … be the ultimate status symbol …’

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

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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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Exercise 4 1

C: To increase chances means to increase likelihood and cannot be substituted by any other word.

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B: To receive responses means to receive replies and cannot be substituted by any other word.

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A: Genuine means real and cannot be substituted by any other word.

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D: As well as means and – and cannot be substituted by any other word.

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D: Highly educated means very well-educated and cannot be substituted by any other word.

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A: The latter means the other one/ones and is used when talking about two (groups of) people, items, etc. This word cannot be substituted by any other.

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A: To measure the impact of something means to estimate its influence. This word cannot be substituted by any other.

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B: Job opportunities are chances of getting a job. This word cannot be substituted by any other.

Exercise 5 1

are to be / going to be mounted: The structure be + an infinitive is used to talk about rules; also the structure be going to is used when talking about future plans; additionally the passive is used as street level cameras are not an active agent in the sentence.

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so much challenged by hiking as: The structure not so much + adjective + as + adjective is used to contrast two connected qualities.

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was amazed to see you: The adjective amazed requires the use of an infinitive.

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at the end of the day: At the end of the day means ultimately.

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standing up for myself: To stand up for oneself means to defend or support a particular idea or a person who is being criticised or attacked; the verb find needs to be followed by an object (a noun) – hence the use of a gerund (standing up for myself).

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is ever such a nice: Is ever such a nice city – Both ever and such are used for emphasis; additionally such needs to be followed by a noun (city) and the indefinite article a because the noun is countable and singular.