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5 C: Mark thinks robots ‘will be capable of doing anything 3 A: Tom says to Ella ‘You got top marks in the last test
that we can’. we had’.
4 B: Ella suggests that they play basketball, but Tom
Exercise 7 says, ‘I’m not in the mood, not till after the exams’.
5 B: Tom says ‘I think I’ll go and watch Win a Million. You
1 B: The article says you can ‘certainly pick up some
know, the quiz show.’ but Ella says she ‘can’t stand
bargains’, but if you’re buying expensive things, you
anything like that’ and leaves, saying ‘Bye Tom. See
can ‘make a mistake that will cost you money’.
you.’
2 B: The article tells us that finally getting a car by
exchanging things took him two years of ‘patient and
clever use of a website he discovered’ so he must Use of English
spend many hours online. Exercise 3
3 B: By the time Steven got the Porsche, he ‘was old
1 B staying: After can’t stand we need to use the -ing
enough to drive it’.
form of the verb.
4 A: The text says that Steven ‘isn’t the first person to do
2 A have: We can say have a party or hold a party.
something like this’. Someone called Kyle MacDonald
3 C flat: The writer lives at the top of a tall block so the
managed to get a house by slowly exchanging things
answer must be flat.
online.
4 C much: Space is uncountable, so we need to use
5 A: Kyle blogged ‘about his adventures’, and he had
much before it.
‘followers’.
5 B research: Research collocates with the verb do (did
some online research). You do research to find out
information about something.
Group B 6 B theme park: A theme park is a place with a lot of
Listening ‘rides and attractions’.
Can extract essential details from short, everyday texts 7 A: When we’re comparing things we say X is better
delivered slowly and clearly. Can understand the main than Y, or X is more expensive than Y, for example.
points of standard speech on familiar topics (e.g. work, 8 D: The speaker uses the past perfect to compare this
leisure). birthday celebration with others before that.
9 D far: We say not too far from to mean that something
Exercise 1
is not a long distance away.
1 B: The speaker says ‘I thought we could meet up at half 10 D keen: Keen is followed by the preposition on.
past one’.
2 A: The announcer says Andy Norris ‘scored all three
Exercise 4
goals’.
3 B: The boy’s mother, who is a doctor herself, says ‘it’s a 1 where: The sentence is talking about a place, West
hard life’. College, so we need to use where.
4 C: They both think today’s exam was hard. The girl 2 never: This needs to be negative, to fit with completely
says ‘the Maths was tough today. I couldn’t even new things.
understand the last question.’ and the boy replies ‘I 3 many: Subjects is countable so we use many.
know! I thought it was hard too.’ 4 as: Such as is used if you want to give an example of
5 B: The speaker says that Shakespeare ‘performed something – here painting and advanced IT.
plays in the original Greek and Latin’ with the other 5 were: We use If I were you, I would ... in second
boys in his school. conditional sentences to give advice to someone.
Exercise 5
Exercise 2
1 helping: After don’t mind, we use the ing form of the
1 A: Ella is surprised to find Tom still studying and
verb.
suggests he has a rest from it. She asks, ‘Are you still
2 hasn’t tidied: We use yet in present perfect negative
working?’ and then she says, ‘Why don’t you take a
sentences, or questions.
break, at least?’
3 was given: In the passive, we need the verb be + the
2 B: This is not true because Tom says, ‘I’ve got to revise
past participle. We also need to keep the same tense
my Physics. The exam’s next week.’ He also tells Ella,
as the original sentence. Here it’s past simple.
‘You don’t have to do any work. You know it all
4 few: There weren’t many people means the same as
already.’ So he thinks that Ella is better prepared that
There were very few people. People is countable, so
he is.
we need to use few.
Reading
Can recognise significant points in straightforward
newspaper articles on familiar topics.
Exercise 6
1 B: He ‘drew mechanical figures that looked like men’.
2 A: The text says that robots carry out ‘all sorts of tasks,
from cutting the grass to performing surgery’. That
means they can do ‘a wide range of tasks’.
3 A: Mark says that ‘intelligent robots like these will exist
quite soon’. He is referring back to an earlier sentence
where he wrote that robots ‘robots ... have feelings
themselves’.
4 C: He says that the new robot ‘recognises sound,
movement and touch’.
5 C: He says robots ‘will be capable of doing anything
that we can’.
Exercise 7
1 A: The article says you can ‘make a big mistake that
will cost you money’ when you’re buying ‘something
expensive, like a car or a computer’.
2 A: He ‘became the owner of a car ... he got it without
any money’. He used a website which ‘advertises
items that people want to exchange for something
else’.
3 B : He used a website, but he didn’t set up his own
website.
4 B: The text says ‘... he was old enough to drive it’ but it
doesn’t tell us that he took driving lessons.
5 A: Kyle became ‘a celebrity in Canada, his home
country’.