New Inside Out Elementary Unit 7 Test p1 Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007

New Inside Out Elementary Unit 7 Test

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Part A

Vocabulary

Water sports

1 Add the missing vowels (a, e, i, o, u) to complete the water sports.

a) s w _ m m _ n g

b) w _ n d s _ r f _ n g

c) s c _ b _ d _ v _ n g

d) f _ s h _ n g

e) s _ _ l _ n g

(5 points)

Time expressions

2 Complete with ago, in or last.

a) I went to Spain _________ year.

b) Jack opened a shop two years _________ .

c) My friends moved to the USA _________ 2002.

d) Your letter arrived four days _________ .

e) I always go to the beach _________ the summer.

(5 points)

Time linkers

3 Complete with the time linkers in the box.

after at first eventually later one day suddenly

When I was eighteen, I went to Mexico with some friends. (1) _____________ we went on a long car

trip. (2) _____________ the car stopped in the middle of the road. We couldnt start it again.

(3) _____________ , we sat and waited in the car, but (4) _____________ an hour, we decided to

walk to a town. We walked and walked, but the road was very quiet. We were alone, it was very hot

and we had no water. Two hours (5) _____________ we stopped. We were beginning to get worried.

(6) _____________ a car came and the driver took us to the town.

(6 points)

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Grammar

Past simple: regular and irregular affirmative forms

4 Write the past simple form of the verbs.

a) like ______________ e) chat ______________

b) call ______________ f) drive ______________

c) make ______________ g) study ______________

d) can ______________ h) sit ______________

(8 points)

5 Write sentences with the past simple form of the verbs.

a) Sara / do / her homework / last night

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b) I / wear / my new shoes / yesterday

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c) We / start / this book / last September

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d) The children / lose / their dog / in the park

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e) Brian / sell / his car / a week ago

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f) You / go / to New York / with your parents

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g) He / take / his girlfriend / to Paris / last summer

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(7 points)

Useful phrases

6 Choose the correct word to complete the phrases about the weather.

a) Whats / Hows the weather like?

b) Its sun / sunny.

c) Its / Theres cold.

d) Its snow / snowing.

(4 points)

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Part B

Pronunciation

Past forms of verbs

[Track 15]

7 Listen and underline the verb in each group which has an extra syllable in the past form.

a) used loved started

b) called waited watched

c) pointed played worked

d) wanted asked washed

e) liked stopped shouted

(5 points)

Listening

[Track 16]

8 Listen to Matthew talking about his experience in Brazil. Underline the correct word.

a) Matthew had a holiday / lived in Brazil when he was a child.

b) Matthew went fishing with his mother and father / brother and father.

c) The boat started rocking because a boat knocked it / it was windy.

d) Matthews mother and sister were on the beach / in the water.

e) Some people on the beach / in a boat helped them.

(5 points)

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Reading

9 Read the text. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?

a) On Bondi beach Valerie went windsurfing. ___

b) She watched beautiful people in Brazil. ___

c) In Thailand, the water was green. ___

d) There is a restaurant on Kalafatis beach. ___

e) She didnt visit the shops in France. ___

The top 5 beaches in the world by Valerie Crupp of Travel Today magazine

Last year I visited forty beaches to decide which were the top 5 beaches in the world. These were my favourites:

1 Bondi beach, Sydney, Australia. I went surfing and drank a beer with friendly people.

2 Ipanema beach, Rio de Janiero, Brazil. I played football and watched beautiful people.

3 Maya beach, Phi Phi Le, Thailand. I took a boat to this beach, and went swimming in the beautiful blue water.

4 Kalafatis beach, Mykonos, Greece. I went windsurfing and diving, and had lunch in a small beach restaurant.

5 Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France. I went shopping and drank wine in a caf.

(5 points)

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Part A

1

a) swimming

b) windsurfing

c) scuba diving

d) fishing

e) sailing

2

a) last

b) ago

c) in

d) ago

e) in

3

a) One day

b) Suddenly

c) At first

d) after

e) later

f) Eventually

4

a) liked

b) called

c) made

d) could

e) chatted

f) drove

g) studied

h) sat

5

a) Sarah did her homework last night.

b) I wore my new shoes yesterday.

c) We started this book last September.

d) the children lost their dog in the park.

e) Brian sold his car a week ago.

f) You went to New York with your parents.

g) He took his girlfriend to Paris last summer.

6

a) Whats

b) sunny

c) Its

d) snowing

Part B

7

a) started

b) waited

c) pointed

d) wanted

e) shouted

8

a) lived

b) brother and father

c) it was windy

d) on the beach

e) in a boat

9

a) F

b) T

c) F

d) T

e) F