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G R AM MAR
1 Complete Susan’s email. Use the -ing form of the 3 Choose the correct word(s).
verbs in the list.
Example: Do you like listening / listen to songs?
be cook do eat go see study
1 I like you. Do you like me / I?
2 That’s mine / my car.
3 I’m sorry. I can / can’t play tennis this evening.
4 Can you to play / play chess?
5 Do you can / Can you come to my birthday party?
Hi Chuck,
6 I love going / go to the park.
My name’s Susan and I’m a student. I like being a student,
but I don’t like 1 __________. I do four hours of 6
homework every evening. I live in a house with my friend
Laura. We like 2 __________ good food, but Laura hates Grammar total 20
3 __________. She only makes pasta. We often go to fast-

food restaurants. It’s really unhealthy. I love VO C AB U L ARY

4 __________ home and eating my mom’s food. On the

weekends, we like 5 __________ friends. We love music 4 Complete the phrase with a verb from the list. Use
and singing. What do you like 6 __________? each verb only once.
Write soon, hear tell wait draw travel help talk play
Susan
Example: wait for a bus

6 1 __________ your sister with her homework

2 __________ a picture
2 Complete the sentence with a pronoun from the list. 3 __________ someone a secret
4 __________ a game
me mine them theirs his her you yours it
5 __________ a noise
Example: That’s mine! Give it to me. 6 __________ by plane
7 __________ to a friend
1 That dog isn’t __________. They don’t have a dog.
2 He likes Mary, but he doesn’t love __________. 7
3 Can you repeat that. I don’t understand __________.
4 Can you help __________? I can’t do this exercise.
5 It isn’t a good book. I don’t like __________.
6 This book’s __________. Look! Here’s your name.
7 Are they Japanese? Can you ask __________?
8 It isn’t __________. He has a blue jacket.

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P R O N U N C IATI O N
5 Complete the phrase with the correct verb. 7 Which is the stressed syllable? Choose the correct
answer.
Example: fly by plane
1 u__________ a computer Example: A restaurant ■
✓ B restaurant ■
2 r__________ a race C restaurant ■
3 p__________ soccer 1 A classical ■ B classical ■ C classical ■
4 c__________ a taxi 2 A practical ■ B practical ■ C practical ■
5 s__________ a song 3 A newspaper ■ B newspaper ■
5 C newspaper ■
4 A creative ■ B creative ■ C creative ■
6 Complete the sentence. Choose the correct word. 5 A instrument ■ B instrument ■
C instrument ■
Example: I _____ my bike in the evening.
A go ■ B ride ■ ✓ C play ■ 5
1 Can you _____ that noise?
A find ■ B take ■ C hear ■ 8 Write the word that rhymes.
2 This is a bad movie. Turn _____ the TV! line chairs quiz doors hits flowers
A off ■ B on ■ C up ■
3 Can you _____ me with this question? Example: its hits
A talk ■ B wait ■ C help ■ 1 theirs __________
4 I can’t _____ my book. 2 mine __________
A find ■ B watch ■ C look ■ 3 yours __________
5 Can you _____ a photo of me?
4 ours __________
A have ■ B call ■ C take ■ 5 his __________
6 Can you _____ the tango?
A go ■ B have ■ C dance ■ 5
7 I _____ by car every day. Pronunciation total 10
A travel ■ B run ■ C use ■
8 Mark can _____ the guitar. Grammar, Vocabulary, and Pronunciation total 50
A do ■ B run ■ C play ■
8

Vocabulary total 20

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R EAD I N G
1 Read the article. Choose True, False, or Doesn’t say. 6 Tom can sing very well.

American artists living abroad

A True ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■
7 Hannah works in a cafe.

Article by Jim Knowles

A True ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■
Maegan Campbell is a 32-year-old actress from Los
8 Hannah likes writing in the afternoon.

Angeles, but right now, she’s living in Paris. She lives in an

A True ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■
apartment that overlooks the Seine River. Maegan’s 9 Hannah never writes at night.
mother is French, which means Maegan can speak the A True ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■
language perfectly. Maegan is very talented. She likes acting
in movies, but she can also sing and dance well, and she has
10 Hannah is always busy at work.
a leading part in a French musical right now. She can also
A True ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■
play the piano very well. In her spare time, Maegan likes to 10
relax at home by watching romantic movies. She doesn’t
have plans to return to the US.
2 Read the article again and write Maegan, Tom, or
Tom Hammond is from Dallas, but he lives in Tokyo. He’s Hannah.
18, and he’s a music student. Tom can play the piano and
the guitar very well. He also writes songs with his friend Example: Tom lives in Tokyo.
Toshi. Tom writes the music and Toshi writes the lyrics.
When they’re happy with a new song, they usually perform
1 __________ watches movies at home.
it to students at their college. They love to have an 2 __________ works in the afternoon.
audience and would really like to be in a band. When he
isn’t composing, Tom downloads his favorite music from
3 __________ sometimes works in the theater.

the Internet.
4 __________ doesn’t play the piano.

Hannah Brown is a writer. She’s from New York, but she

5 __________ is a student.
lives in Mexico. Hannah is 25 and likes writing romantic 5
novels. Her goal, of course, is to be a published writer, so
she writes every day for at least four hours. Her favorite
Reading total 15
time to write is early in the morning, but she sometimes
writes late at night, too. In the afternoons, Hannah works as
WR ITI N G

• Berlin
a waitress in a cafe. She doesn’t really enjoy this part of her Read the notes and write 75–100 words about Susana.

• Argentinian
life, but it helps her learn Spanish.

• work
• can play // guitar
/ German company

• love / romantic movies

very tall short hair / blue eyes

• like / buy / clothes / hate / go to supermarkets

/ piano

• always / go shopping / Saturday

Example: Maegan is French.

• not smoke
A True ■ B False ■✓ C Doesn’t say ■

• favorite time / Sunday morning / drink / coffee / read /

• newspaper
1 Maegan lives in Los Angeles.
A True ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■
2 Maegan doesn’t act in movies.
A True ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■
3 Maegan can sing and dance well.
A True ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■ Susana lives in Berlin. She …
4 Tom studies in Tokyo. Writing total 10
A True ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■
Reading and Writing total 25
5 Tom writes songs with his friend.
A True ■ B False ■ C Doesn’t say ■

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LI STE N I N G S P EAKI N G
1 AE F 1 T 8 Listen to the interview. Choose the correct Work in pairs.
column in the table. Student A, look at Speaking Test A.
not very Student B, look at Speaking Test B.
well well well
Speaking total 15
1 Fran can speak Spanish. A ■ B ■ C ■
2 Fran can play soccer. A ■ B ■ C ■ Listening and Speaking total 25
3 Fran can dance. A ■ B ■ C ■
4 Fran can paint. A ■ B ■ C ■
5 Fran can drive. A ■ B ■ C ■
5

2 AE F 1 T 9 Listen to five people talk about shopping.

Match the sentence halves.
1 In conversation 1, Mary … _____
2 In conversation 2, David … _____
3 In conversation 3, Sue … _____
4 In conversation 4, Paul … _____
5 In conversation 5, Carla … _____
A … doesn’t like shopping with friends.
B … likes malls.
C … likes trying on clothes.
D … likes shopping on the Internet.
E … doesn’t like busy stores.
5

Listening total 10

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