Winter Final Test Practice. December 2013.
1 Are the underlined words countable or uncountable? Choose countable (C) or
uncountable (U).
1 My brother’s very strange. He doesn’t like chocolate C/U!
2 Adolescence C/U can be a very difficult time for many teenagers.
3 I learned an interesting piece C/U of information from a TV game show yesterday.
4 I like Rita’s new furniture C/U. I think it suits the flat perfectly.
5 The bank robbery C/U in the town centre was on the news C/U last night.
2 Choose the correct alternatives to complete the sentences.
1 How much/many new verbs did you learn last week?
2 I’m afraid there are only a few/a little biscuits left. I ate most of them last week.
3 I was worried about mistakes in my English homework, but there weren’t a lot/a lot of.
4 The teacher didn’t give us much/many time to finish the test.
5 A few/little people at our school studied Mandarin Chinese instead of French!
6 I didn’t get some/any sleep last night and I’m feeling terrible this morning.
7 There weren’t much/many tomatoes in the fridge.
8 There are still a little/few pieces of cake on the plate.
9 I’ve got some/a great news! Our team won the cup!
10 How much/many mayonnaise do you want in your salad?
11We don’t watch some/any cartoons during the break.
12 There is still a little/few ice-cream in the freezer.
3. Complete the sentences with these relative pronouns.
Write 0 if it’s possible to leave out the pronoun.who which whose where
1 That’s a mistake _____ people often make!
2 Avatar is the film _____ won a lot of awards last year.
3 Miss Franks is the teacher _____ first taught me English.
4 I remember the day _____ Charlie brought his cat to school in his bag!
5 The film is about a couple _____ young son can speak four languages.
6 There are now houses in the field _____ we played when we were children.
4 Complete the sentences with one word.
1 People in Wales speak __________.
2 People in Brazil speak __________.
3 People in Poland speak __________.
4 People in the Netherlands speak __________.
5 People in Japan speak __________.
6 People in Germany speak __________.
5 You are going to hear part of an interview with a writer.
Listen and decide if the statements are true (T), false (F) or not mentioned (NM).
T/F/NM
1 The book teaches people how to speak a
new secret language.
2 Children can make up their own languages. T/F/NM
3 The development of secret languages is
quite a new thing.
T/F/NM
4 You need to be very clever to speak a secret T/F/NM
language.
5 Adults’ secret languages are very different
from children’s.
T/F/NM
6.Read the texts about when people started learning English. Match the comments in 1–6
with the people in A–D. You can choose the people more than once.
1 I think it’s important to have fun when you’re learning a new language. ___
2 I’m not the only one in my family who can speak two languages. ___
3 I didn’t learn much in my first English lessons. _
4 My parents are different nationalities. ___
5 It’s important to have a real reason to learn a language. ___
6 It didn’t take me long to learn English. ___
A I can’t remember when I first started learning English because it was – and still is – the language my
family speaks at home. You see, my mum is English and she and my dad (who’s French) thought it was a
good idea for their children to speak English at home and French at school. It worked! My sisters and I
speak both languages well, and I can go from one to the other without thinking.
B I never learned English at school because our second language was Spanish. I think today the children
learn English, but not when I was young. I learned English when I worked in London for a year after
university. I was so worried about the language! But I found that after a few weeks I knew what people
were saying and I could say quite a lot. I think you learn a language best when you really need to, not just
for passing exams at school.
C My first English lessons were when I was about seven, at school, but we didn’t do very much! I don’t
remember anything from those lessons. We had one lesson every week and I forgot everything between
the lessons. The only lesson that is still in my memory is when we imagined we were different fruits. I
was a banana and I walked round the room saying ‘I am a banana!’ I thought it was very silly!
D I didn’t start learning English until I was 11 and it was so difficult. There were 30 students in my class
and we never said anything in English. The teacher taught us grammar rules and we learned long lists of
vocabulary for tests. I didn’t understand why I was learning this strange language. The teacher didn’t
show us English films or magazines and we never played any games. The lessons were boring, so I didn’t
learn anything. I don’t think our teacher was very good!
7. Open the brackets.
1. We ___________ (go) down the road at 100 Km/h when the wheel ________ (fall) off.
2. She _________ (fill) in a questionnaire when the pen _________ (run) out of ink.
3. Mike ________(fall) off the ladder while he __________ (paint) the ceiling.
4. While Ann _________ (cook) dinner, the phone _________ (ring)
5. What ___________ (you /do) at this time yesterday?
6. __________(you/watch) TV when I _________ (arrive)?
7. When I _________________ (switch on) the TV, they __________________ (talk) about a
robbery.
8. When I _________________ (get) home, I _____________________ (make) a sandwich.
9. As I _________________ (pass) your house, I ______________ (see) someone in your back
garden.
10. At 10:30 last night I ___________________________(do) my homework.
11. While we __________ (have) dinner, someone __________ (knock) at the door.
12. I __________ (call) Lynn and we __________ (arrange) to meet at the café.
13. At 7:30 this morning, I __________ (take) my dog for a walk.
14. I __________ (notice) a new shop as I __________ (ride) my bike to school.
1 1 U 2 U 3 C 4 U 5 C, U
2 1 many 2 a few 3 a lot 4 much 5 few 6 any
3 1 0 2 which 3 who 4 0 5 whose 6 where
4 1 Welsh 2 Portuguese 3 Polish 4 Dutch 5 Japanese 6 German
5 1 B2A 3 B4 B5 C 6 B
6 1 invisible 2 illegal 3 dishonest 4 irregular 5 incorrect
7 1 D 2A 3 C 4A 5 B6 B
8 1 F 2 T 3 F 4 F 5 NM
9 1 B2 D 3 C 4A 5 B6 C 7 B8 B9 B