UNIT 7: Skills

GROUP B

Name:  ________________________

Class:  ________________________

Dictation
1 [WIDGB2_Utest_7_Dictation.mp3] Listen and
write the sentences that you hear, including
the punctuation.
Listening
_______________________________________
2 [WIDGB2_Utest_7_Listening.mp3] You will hear
_______________________________________ part of a radio programme about money. Mark
_______________________________________ the sentences TRUE, FALSE or DOESN’T SAY
with a cross (X) in the correct column in the
_______________________________________ table.

_______________________________________ TRUE FALSE DOESN’T

SAY

1 Boris gets £5 a week

_______________________________________ pocket money.
_______________________________________
2 Boris spends over £30 a
_______________________________________ week at the shopping
centre.
_______________________________________
3 Boris’s wallet is
_______________________________________ always empty.
_______________________________________
4 Boris never checks
other shops to see if
__________________________________________
things are cheaper
__________________________________________ there.

5 Boris quite likes

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borrowing money.

6 Jonathan thinks saving

money is a waste of
time.

7 Jonathan thinks that

people shouldn’t use
banks.

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GROUP B

D Now, you can choose from thousands of products,

from electronic technology and clothes to sports
equipment and jewellery.
E He finally decided that his new business would
sell books because people always wanted books.
F And it doesn’t even have any shops you can
actually walk into.
G And this was why they decided to send the
products quickly.
H He hoped his company would be the biggest too!
I The company was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos
in Washington State in America.
J After only two months, Amazon was making
$20,000/week.
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Reading
3 For questions 1–7, complete the article about
Amazon by choosing the correct sentence, A–
J. There are two sentences you do not need to
use.

A He looked through a dictionary and decided on

‘Amazon’. From garage to the biggest American shop:
B He used this money to move out of his garage Amazon.
into new offices.
C The report said that the number of sales online
would quickly grow by 2,300%!
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GROUP B

In 2015, Amazon became the biggest

retailer (shop) in the US. 0 F . It makes
all of its money through the internet.
1
_____. Bezos read a report about the future of
selling products on the internet. 2_____. So
Bezos created a list of five products that he
could sell online: CDs, computers, computer
software, DVDs, and books. 3_____. Bezos
started the company in his garage!
He wanted a name for his company that began
with ‘A’ so that it would appear early in
alphabetical order on internet searches. 4_____.
He chose this because it was ‘exotic and
different’ and it was the biggest river in the
world. 5_____. In its first two months of
business, Amazon sold to all 50 states in the
USA and over 45 countries. 6_____.
In the beginning, it specialised in only one
product, books. 7 . It has about 88,400
employees worldwide and has sales of tens of
billions of dollars every year.

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