Use of English

Vocabulary

4 Complete the sentences with one word.

1 People in Wales speak __________.

2 People in Brazil speak __________.

3 People in Poland speak __________.

4 People in the Netherlands speak __________.

5 People in Japan speak __________.

6 People in Germany speak __________.

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5 Choose the correct alternatives to complete the sentences.

1 Do you have to ___ a special exam to go to university?

Amake

Btake

Cwrite  

2 Dan never ___ mistakes when he speaks English. He’s very good.

Amakes

Bdoes

Cputs

3 It’s a good idea to ___ new words into your own language in your vocabulary notebook.

Awrite

Btranslate

Crevise

4 In the competition, people have to ___ more than 20 objects in a list.

Arevise

Bmemorize

Cpractise

5 I usually ___ for exams the day before. I know that’s not enough time!

Amemorize

Bpractise

Crevise

6 We have to ___ a lot of grammar exercises in class and I hate them!

Amake

Bdo

Cmemorize

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6 Add the correct negative prefix to these words. Use dis-, in-, il-, ir- and im-. Use them to complete the sentences.

regular honest correct visible legal

1 Harry Potter has a cloak that makes him __________.

2 In our country it’s __________ to drive at 16.

3 It’s __________ to cheat in an exam!

4 I must memorize my list of __________ verbs for tomorrow’s test.

5 It’s __________ to start a formal letter with the words ‘Hello Mr Brown.’

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Reading

7 Read the texts about when people started learning English. Match the comments in 1–6 with the people in 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 learn much in my first English lessons. ___ 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. ___   A 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.
BI never learned English at school because our second language was Spanish. I think today the children learn English, but not 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.
CMy 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. The only lesson that is still in my memory is when we imagined we were different fruits. I was a banana and I walked round the room saying ‘I am a banana!’ I thought it was very silly!
D I didn’t start learning English until I was 11 and it was so difficult. There were 30 students in my class and we never said anything in English. The 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. The teacher didn’t show us English films or magazines and we never played any games. The lessons were boring, so I didn’t learn anything. I don’t think our teacher was very good!

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Listening (Tests CD, Track 3)

8 You are going to hear part of an interview with a writer. Listen and decide if the statements are true (T), false (F) or not mentioned (NM).

1 The book teaches people how to speak a new secret language.	T/F/NM
2Children can make up their own languages.	T/F/NM
3The development of secret languages is quite a new thing.	T/F/NM
4 You need to be very clever to speak a secret language.	T/F/NM
5 Adults’ secret languages are very different from children’s.	T/F/NM

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Use of English

9 Choose the correct alternatives 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 recognize, 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 a lot of different words. There is one dog in Germany (7) ___ can identify over 200 different toys. The owner says the name of (8) ___ toy and the dog finds the correct one from a big group of toys. That is more than young children can (9) ___! This shows that doggy brains can give meaning to language.

1 A know B understand C translate D listen

2 A Lots B Little C Much D Many

3 A tell B make C say D give

4 A that B what C who D when

5 A a B the C some D all

6 A any B few C some D much

7 A what B who C it D he

8 A the B a C its D an

9 A make B do C say D have

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Writing

10 You are going to an after-school English language club with your friend. Text your friend. In your text, you should

· arrange to meet outside the school

· ask him to bring his dictionary

· remind him about the homework from last week.

Write 30–50 words.

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