Developing English Language Skills /
English Language Framework Level 4
March 2016
Written Examination
This paper contains sections on Language in Use, Reading and
Writing.
You may complete the sections in any order.
Time: 2 hours 15 minutes
The maximum mark for this paper is 100.
Any reference material brought into the examination room must be
handed to the invigilator before the start of the examination.
All answers must be written in the answer booklet provided. Do NOT
write on this paper.
Section A – Language in Use
Answer ALL questions
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Question 1
Grammar – the passive
Complete the sentences by filling the gaps with TWO OR THREE words, so that the
second sentence means the same as the first and is in the same tense.
Example:
Someone followed me home last night.
I ____________ home last night.
I was followed home last night.
a)
They are painting my house
My house ____________.
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b) A wallet has been found on the classroom floor.
The teacher ___________ a wallet on the classroom floor.
1
c)
The café next to us is going to be closed.
They are __________ the café next to us.
1
d) We need to hold a meeting tomorrow.
A meeting needs ___________ tomorrow.
1
e)
I hate someone bumping into me when I am walking down the street.
I hate ______________ when I am walking down the street.
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f)
My bike has been stolen.
Someone _________ my bike.
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Total 6 Marks
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Question 2
Vocabulary – a dining table
Complete the sentences by filling each gap with ONE word.
Example:
I need a _______ to eat my soup with.
I need a spoon to eat my soup with.
a)
The salt and _______ are both together.
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b) I need a _______ and fork so I can eat my steak.
1
c)
1
Could you pass me a ________ so I can clean my mouth?
d) The waiter is carrying all the plates on a _________.
1
e)
There is a _______ of water for us all to share. I will pour some into everyone’s
glasses.
1
f)
I like to have my tea in a _______ and saucer.
1
Total 6 Marks
Question 3
Grammar – reporting verbs
Complete the sentences by putting the verb in brackets into the correct form.
Example:
I am warning you __________ (not come) here again.
I am warning you not to come here again.
a)
James is trying to convince me __________ (play) football with him.
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b) Can I persuade you ________ (have) one more coffee?
1
c)
1
Joe denies _________ (take) the money, but I am sure it was him.
d) He is ill, but he has insisted on _______ (be) there.
1
e)
Sarah admitted ________ (break) the window.
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f)
The teacher advised me ________ (go) to university.
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Total 6 Marks
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Question 4
Grammar – phrasal verbs
Some sentences below are correct. If the sentence is correct, write ‘correct’. Some
sentences have an unnecessary word. If there is an unnecessary word, write that
word.
Example:
The company hopes to take in on a new manager soon. ___
The company hopes to take in on a new manager soon. in
a)
I am trying to come up with some new ideas.
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b) What I told you wasn’t true; I just made it up.
1
c)
1
I have decided to give it up eating meat and become vegetarian.
d) I am going to keep exercising until I feel fitter.
1
e)
Julie is taking me up out for dinner tonight.
1
f)
I am going to hand out the exam papers now.
1
Total 6 Marks
Question 5
Grammar – wish
Complete each sentence by putting the verb in brackets into the correct form.
Example:
I wish you _________ (not live) so far away. It takes me ages to get to your house.
I wish you didn’t live so far away. It takes me ages to get to your house.
a)
I wish I _________ (go) to a better school when I was a child.
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b) I wish it ________ (be) already time to go home. We still have another hour.
1
c)
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I wish I ________ (start) to play the guitar when I was younger.
d) You’re annoying me. I wish you _________ (not always make) that noise.
1
e)
I wish I ________ (have) more hair than I do now.
1
f)
I wish I ________ (not be) always so busy. I’d love to have more free time.
1
Total 6 Marks
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Question 6
Vocabulary – farming
Complete each sentence by adding ONE word to each gap. The first letter has been
given.
Example:
H_______ lay eggs.
Hens lay eggs.
a)
Young sheep are called l_______.
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b) Farmers need to h______ the crops when they are fully grown.
1
c)
1
Farmers get milk from c________.
d) When fruit like apples and strawberries are r______, they should be picked.
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e)
The farmer lives in a f_________.
1
f)
The b_______ have a ring in their nose.
1
Total 6 Marks
Question 7
Grammar – present perfect
Put the verbs in brackets into the present perfect simple or present perfect
continuous.
Example:
I _________ (have) a headache all day.
I have had a headache all day.
a)
We ________ (run) all day and so we are tired.
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b) I ________ (not see) you for a week.
1
It ________ (rain) since 8 o’clock.
1
c)
d) Heather ________ (go) to the shop. She should be back soon.
1
e)
We ________ (know) each other for ten years.
1
f)
We _________ (drive) for ages. Are you sure this is the right road?
1
Total 6 Marks
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Question 8
Vocabulary – packaging
Match the type of packaging below with the product which it is commonly used for.
You will not need all the types of packaging.
box
bottle
can
pot
packet
jar
wrapper
tin
tub
Example:
Water: ______
Water: bottle
a)
ice cream
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b) soft drink
1
c)
1
jam
d) breakfast cereal
1
e)
chocolate bar
1
f)
yogurt
1
Total 6 Marks
Question 9
Grammar – direct and indirect questions
Write the words in the correct order to make a question.
Example:
movie this about think you what do ?
What do you think about this movie?
a)
eat you anything didn’t why ?
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b) we class yesterday study what in did ?
1
c)
1
show time you know do starts what the ?
d) next the when leaves tell can train me you
1
e)
night you did what remember we do last
1
f)
last did holiday you where go year on
1
Total 6 Marks
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Question 10
Vocabulary – exercising
Complete each sentence by putting ONE word in each gap. The first letter has been
given.
Example:
It is important to s_____ before you begin any exercise.
It is important to stretch before you begin any exercise.
a)
I like to use a r_______ machine for my arms and chest.
1
b) The exercise b______ is good for my legs and my stamina.
1
c)
2
I do 50 s_____-ups and 50 p_____-ups every morning.
d) I do exercise because I want to lose w_______.
1
e)
1
I joined a g______ and I work out there every evening.
Total 6 Marks
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Section B – Reading
Answer ALL questions
Case Study 1
They believe they can fly
Read the text and answer the questions below.
1
Some people just won’t be satisfied till they can fly. This primal urge has given rise to
wingsuit fliers: thrill-seekers who leap off cliffs or out of airplanes wearing winged
jumpsuits that give them the capacity to control and delay their free fall. With practice,
some wingsuiters can stay airborne for more than three minutes and hit speeds over 100
miles an hour, achieving what they say is the closest thing to engineless flight that humans
have ever experienced.
2
“It’s a weird, risky thing to do,” said Taya Weiss, 35, a professional wingsuit pilot and
charity organizer. “But the dream of flight is ancient, and some of us feel like it’s something
we were born with and can’t get rid of.”
3
In addition to the dozen or so professionals like Ms. Weiss who spend their workdays
filming ads and staging stunts, there are only a handful of hobbyists who have ever
actually tried it. Most are elite sky divers or BASE jumpers (the acronym stands for the
potential jumpoff points: buildings, antennas, spans and earth) united by an obsession with
flying, if not social status.
4
There have been many attempts at wingsuit flying throughout history, dating from the
German engineer Otto Lilienthal, who in the late 1800s designed winged gliders that
allowed him to fly up to 1,000 feet without an engine. But the sport truly took off in 1997,
when the French sky diver Patrick de Gayardon successfully jumped from a plane wearing
nothing but a modified jumpsuit.
5
Even those who are well trained struggle with safety. Not unlike motor car races and air
shows, wingsuit flying as a spectator sport derives much of its thrill from people putting
their lives at risk, and at extremely high speeds. Both Mr. Lilienthal and Mr. de Gayardon
died trying to achieve flight with winged outfits, as did Eric Stephenson, Ms. Weiss’s
mentor and fiancé. In January, another flyer, Jeb Corliss broke both his legs jumping off a
3,500-foot mountain in South Africa.
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But like the pioneers they consider themselves to be, wingsuiters are not easily deterred.
Despite the death of the man she planned to grow old with, Ms. Weiss still pursues her
dream of flying. “I thought about quitting,” she said. “But we’re pushing the boundaries of
what humans can do. For me, the crazy thing isn’t continuing to do it. The crazy thing
would be to walk away from this thing that has brought me together with some of the most
incredible people in the world.”
(Adapted from English File Upper Intermediate, Page 43)
Question 1
Match the numbers of paragraphs 1 to 6 with the headings (a) to (h) below. You will not
need TWO (2) headings.
a)
Jumping off tall buildings
b) A select few
c)
Never giving up
d) Clothes which help people fly
e)
How to fly
f)
A lifelong desire
g) Flying in the past
h) Why people watch
Total 6 Marks
Question 2
Read the following sentences and write true if the view is expressed in the text, false if the
opposite view is expressed in the text and not given if the information is not given in the
text.
a)
Wingsuit flyers can fly for many hours at a time.
1
b) Taya Weiss has been a wingsuit flyer for many years.
1
c)
1
There are about 12 people in the world who do wingsuit flying for a job.
d) Taya Weiss was due to marry Jeb Corliss.
1
e)
1
Eric Stephenson was old when he died.
Total 5 Marks
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Case Study 2
What the bagel man saw
Read the text and answer the question below.
Once upon a time, Paul Feldman dreamed big dreams. While studying agricultural
economics at Cornell, he wanted to end world hunger. Instead, he ended up taking a job
with a research institute in Washington, analysing the weapons expenditures of the United
States Navy. He was well paid and unfulfilled. ‘I’d go to the office Christmas party, and
people would introduce me to their wives or husbands as the guy who brings in the
bagels,’ he says. “Oh! You’re the guy who brings in the bagels!’ Nobody ever said, ‘This is
the guy in charge of the public research group.”
The bagels had begun as a casual gesture: a boss treating his employees whenever they
won a new research contract. Then he made it a habit. Every Friday, he would bring half a
dozen bagels, a serrated knife, some cream cheese. When employees from neighbouring
floors heard about the bagels, they wanted some, too. Eventually he was bringing in 15
dozen bagels a week. He set out a cash basket to recoup his costs. His collection rate was
about 95 per cent; he attributed the underpayment to oversight.
In 1984, when his research institute fell under new management, Feldman said to
management: ‘I’m getting out of this. I’m going to sell bagels.’
His economist friends thought he had lost his mind. But his wife supported his decision.
Driving around the office parks that encircle Washington, he solicited customers with a
simple pitch: early in the morning, he would deliver some bagels and a cash basket to a
company’s snack room; he would return before lunch to pick up the money and the
leftovers. Within a few years, he was delivering 700 dozen bagels a week to 140
companies and earning as much as he had ever made as a research analyst.
He had also – quite without meaning to – designed a beautiful economic experiment. By
measuring the money collected against the bagels taken, he could tell, down to the penny,
just how honest his customers were. Did they steal from him? If so, what were the
characteristics of a company that stole versus a company that did not? Under what
circumstances did people tend to steal more, or less?
(Adapted from English File Upper Intermediate, Page 86)
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Question
Complete the sentences below by filling each gap with ONE (1) or TWO (2) words, or a
number from the text.
a)
Paul Feldman’s degree was in ______________.
1
b) Paul Feldman decided to ___________ instead of working in research.
c)
Paul’s ________ agreed with his change of career.
1
1
d) Paul earned more money as a bagel seller than as a ____________.
1
e)
1
Paul was able to see whether his clients were ___________.
Total 5 Marks
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Case Study 3
Four misleading adverts
Read the text and answer the question below.
1 Cigarettes are not harmful to your health
Hard to believe, but there was a time when tobacco companies actually tried to make us
believe that doctors approved of smoking, or that certain brands were better for your throat
than others. Dozens of ads from the 1920s featured doctors recommending or ‘preferring’
one brand over another. Tobacco companies continued to use doctors to convince the
public to smoke until the 1950s when evidence showing the link between smoking and
lung cancer became too strong to ignore.
2 The thinner the better
In 2009 fashion retailer Ralph Lauren made a series of advertisements using a model who
was so heavily airbrushed that her waist appeared to be smaller than her head. The ads
were widely criticized in the press and experts warned of the negative effect these kinds of
images might have on young girls. Lauren threatened to sue a blogger, who was the first
person to publish and comment on the image online. But later he made a statement
apologising and admitting that ‘we are responsible for the poor imaging and retouching
that resulted in a very distorted image of a woman’s body.’
3 Vitamins prevent cancer
In 2010 the pharmaceutical company Bayer was sued by the Centre for Science in the
Public Interest for running TV and radio commercials that suggested one of the ingredients
in its one-a-day vitamin supplement brand prevented prostate cancer. In fact, there is no
scientific evidence that vitamins fight cancer in any way. Bayer eventually paid a fine and
signed a legal agreement which banned it from claiming that vitamins can cure cancer.
4 You can lose weight without dieting or doing exercise
During the 1990s Enforma, a US fitness company, ran an advertising campaign using TV
commercials in which a baseball player promoted two diet supplements, a ‘Fat Trapper’
that supposedly blocked the absorption of fat, and a product named ‘Exercise In A Bottle’.
These two products together, according to the ad, would allow you to lose weight without
dieting or exercise and promised consumers that ‘they would never have to diet again’.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took the player to court for making false claims
about the product. So began an epic legal battle which the FTC ultimately lost when a
federal court ruled that celebrity endorsers were not responsible for misleading statements
in ads. However, this ruling eventually led to the passing of new regulations making it
illegal for celebrities to make false statements of fact in advertisements.
(Adapted from English File Upper Intermediate, Page 84)
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Question
Read the following sentences and write true if the sentence is true and false if the
sentence is false.
a)
Doctors used to advertise cigarettes.
1
b) People were angered due to the clothes worn in the Ralph Lauren advert.
1
c)
1
Bayer was fined for showing misleading adverts.
d) The baseball player was punished for making false claims.
1
Total 4 Marks
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Section C – Writing
You must answer this question
Read the question below and write an answer of between 200 and 250 words.
Some people believe that old buildings in cities should be knocked down and replaced
with new ones. Others feel that historical places should be preserved. Discuss both views
and give your own opinion.
Total 20 Marks
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