Starter Progress Test Units 3–4A

Vocabulary and Grammar

Listening
3 Add one word from the box to each group.
1 Track 3 Listen and tick the correct answer.
Thursday sweater clock
1 Where is Carl? yellow match sandwich
a) at home □
b) at school  1 Sunday Monday Friday Thursday
c) in an office □ 2 red brown blue                
3 film concert party                
2 It’s … dictionary. 4 computer lamp printer                
a) Betty’s □ 5 cake coffee cola                
b) Nisha’s □ 6 jacket dress hat                
c) Haroun’s □
5
3 Darren lives in … 4 Underline the correct alternative.
a) a big house □ 1 I do sport in/at the weekend.
b) a flat □ 2 You drive in a flat/to the shops.
c) his friend Sam’s house □ 3 Chocolate is green/brown.
4 We have/do a sister.
4 What time is it? 5 I go to a café in/at the afternoon.
a) 1.30 □ 6 They work in an office/sport.
b) 1.45 □ 7 I study English every/on day.
c) 2.15 □ 8 We don’t work on/at Wednesdays.
9 A play/lesson has a teacher and students.
5 How much is an egg sandwich?
a) 3.40 □ 8
b) 4.30 □
c) 4.40 □
5 Complete the conversations with the words
6 How much is the box from Japan? from the box.
a) 40 □
those doesn’t that this do what where
b) 50 □
whose
c) 60 □
10 1 A: What’s in those boxes over there?
B: Books.

Pronunciation 2 A:                 do you study?

2 Track 4 Listen to the sound of the final s in B: At Frankfurt University.

these words. Write them in the correct column. 3 A: Where’s John’s car?
phones teaches drives watches likes B: He                 have a car.
wants goes dresses hats boxes lamps
4 A:            is Nancy.
/s/ /z/ / ɪz/ B: Hello. I’m Alessandro.
phones 5 A:          ’s this in English?
B: It’s milk.
6 A:            you like chocolate?
B: No, I don’t.
7 A:                 keys are these?
10
B: They’re Benjamin’s.
8 A: Look! Who’s                 ?
B: I don’t know.
7

PHOTOCOPIABLE © Pearson Education Limited 2012

 Starter Progress Test Units 3–4A

6 Write the questions (Q) for the answers (A). Reading

Include the word in brackets in the question.
8 Read the article and choose the correct answers
1 Q Do you have a car? to 1–6.
A A car? Yes, I do. I have a sports car. (have)
Twins – the same … but different, too
2 Q                                                                               Tweny-three-year-old Nicky and Debbie Patmore
A Basketball? Yes, I do. (like) have the same birthday, the same parents and the
same green eyes. They’re identical twin sisters.
3 Q                                                                               ‘Debbie works in a bank, but I don’t have a job,’
A I live in Tokyo. (where) says Nicky. I’m a student. I study about ten hours a
week. The rest of the time I go out with my friends
4 Q                                                                               and listen to music. Debbie likes music, too, but she
A I study English. (what) doesn’t go to parties or concerts.
‘These are Debbie’s clothes – they’re all black and
5 Q                                                                               white. My clothes are pink and white. These are
A This bag? No, it isn’t Lee’s. (is) Debbie’s running shoes. She goes running every
evening with her boyfriend. He’s a basketball
6 Q                                                                               player. I don’t like sport at all.’
A Those pens? No, they aren’t Sharon’s. (are) Debbie says, ‘Nicky’s a student but she doesn’t
study much. In the evening she sits at her computer,
10 but she doesn’t do any work.
‘She has an avatar – an online identity. She doesn’t
talk about it to me, but I know that her avatar’s a
7 The underlined words are not correct. Write singer.’
the correct word.
1 Where are you work?        do            1 Who has green eyes?
a) Nicky □
2 I study at the morning.                      b) Nicky and Debbie 
c) Debbie □
3 That’s Nick shirt.                     
2 Who has a job?
4 It don’t cost a lot of money.                      a) Nicky □
b) Nicky and Debbie □
5 Hey, look at me! This are my new sunglasses! c) Debbie □

6 Chang-Ho doesn’t speaks English.                      3 Who likes music?

a) Nicky □
7 Eli study two hours a day.                      b) Nicky and Debbie □
c) Debbie □
8 Do you like egg? No, I not.                     
4 Whose clothes are pink and white?
9 What are that?                      a) Nicky’s □
b) Nicky’s and Debbie’s □
10 Jenny teach music.                      c) Debbie’s □

11 We work on night.                      5 Who doesn’t like sport?

a) Nicky □
10 b) Nicky and Debbie □
c) Debbie □

6 Nicky … singer.
a) is a □
b) ’s avatar is a □
c) ’s sister Debbie is a □

10

PHOTOCOPIABLE © Pearson Education Limited 2012

 Starter Progress Test Units 3–4A

10

Speaking
Writing
9 Write the times and prices.
11 Underline the correct alternatives to complete
Times Prices the text.
a) 5.30 d) 1.10 I live in a flat in Amsterdam 1and/but I work in
b) 9.45 e) 6.50 Amsterdam. I live with my parents 2and/because
c) 12.15 f) 2.99 flats are expensive and I don’t have a lot of money.
g) 4.25 I work in an office in the city centre. The work isn’t
bad, 3and/but I want to find a new job.
a) half past five I like films 4and/but I like music. I don’t go out
b)                                          every evening, 5and/but at the weekend I go out with
my friends. I like the cinema at Westerpark in
c)                                          Amsterdam 6because/but it has a good café!
d) one ten 5

e)                                         
12 Write a blog entry about your life. Write 50–
f)                                         
70 words.
g)                                         
My home
5
                                                                                     

10 Complete the conversations with words /                                                                                      

phrases from the boxes.                                                                                      
1
                                                                                     
nine euros fifty past is to is it
                                                                                
Dan: How much is the film?
Bel: 1Nine euros fifty. My work/study
Dan: Oh, OK. And what time 2                     the
film?                                                                                      
Bel: At quarter past eight.                                                                                      
Dan: Sorry? When? Quarter 3                     eight?
Bel: No, quarter past eight.                                                                                      
Dan: What time 4                     now?                                                                                      
Bel: Half 5                     seven.
Dan: Let’s go to a café.                                                                                 
Bel: Good idea.
At the weekend
2
                                                                                     
sparkling help else can much have
                                                                                     
Waiter: Good evening. Can I 6                     you?
Bel: Hello. Can I have a mineral water, please?                                                                                      
Waiter: Still or 7                    ?                                                                                      
Bel: Still, please.
Waiter: Anything 8                    ?                                                                                 
Bel: No, thanks.
Dan: Can I 9                     an espresso coffee, please?
Waiter: Anything else? 10
Dan: Yes, 10                     I have one of those
chocolate cakes. Total: 100
Waiter: Of course.
Dan: How 11                     is that?
Waiter: Nine fifty, please.

PHOTOCOPIABLE © Pearson Education Limited 2012