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Unit 2 challenge test
Listening
1 T6 Listen and answer the questions.
1 Where did Emma go?
2 Who did Emma visit?
3 When did Emma’s mum move to London?
4 What did Emma’s mum work as?
5 What did Maria do last year?
6 What did Pauline do last year?
7 What did Pauline do last month?
8 What did Pauline do two years ago? /8
2 T7 Listen and write the letter.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
A B C D
E F G H /8
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Speaking
3 Look at the pictures. Say what they did and didn’t do.
Max: study English work as a chef learn to swim live in a town
Lily: move to London join a team pass a test finish school /8
4 Choose people you know. Say which of the things in the box they did
or didn’t do.
be born finish school get a job get married go to university grow up
have children learn to swim start school
E My mum and dad got married in 2004. /8
Reading
5 Match 1–6 to A–F.
1 was born A My aunt has got two, my cousins Lisa and Harry. Lisa is 5
2 grew up and Harry is 12.
B Sam studied maths and science for four years. He had a
3 finished school great time and made a lot of friends, too.
4 had children C My grandmother lived on a small island in Scotland
5 went to when she was a child. She moved to London when she
university was an adult.
D Nathan joined the school as a teacher in 2019 and he’s
6 got a job at the same school now.
E It was my brother’s last lesson today and he starts
university in September.
F Yes, that’s right, 12 December 2012. Yes, three twelves!
It was a Wednesday. /6
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6 Read and choose the correct option.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks 1 is born / born / was born in 1913 and she 2 grew / got / grow
up in Montgomery, a small town in the USA. There were two types of
schools: one for white children and one for black children. There was only a
school bus for the white children – the black children walked to school.
Rosa felt angry when she saw white children go to school on a bus.
Rosa 3 finish / finished / finishes school at 16 because her grandmother and
mother were ill. She 4 get / got / went a job and then at 19 she met
Raymond Parks. They got married, but they 5 not / no / didn’t have children.
Raymond worked, so Rosa 6 did start / start / started school again and
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passed / joined / learned her last test, but she 8 didn’t go / not go / didn’t
went to university. She started work in a new job.
On 1 December 1955, Rosa was on a bus in Montgomery. The seats at the
front of the bus were for white people only. Rosa decided to sit at the front,
and she 9 didn’t want / didn’t wanted / not wanted to give her seat to a
white man. The bus driver called the police. The police arrived and they
took Rosa with them.
People quickly heard the news. Lots of people wanted the rules for the
seats on their buses to change, and finally 10 did / they did / they do. The
seats at the front were now for black and white people, thanks to brave
Rosa Parks.
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Writing
7 Look at the pictures. Write past simple sentences. Use the words in the box.
married university job children
E 1 2 3
E She didn’t get a job.
1
2
3 /3
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8 Write about a person. Use the ideas below.
• name
• birthday
• town / country
• school / university
• children / family
• work
• different town / country
• important life events / achievements
E His / Her name’s …
/8
9 Write five sentences about yourself.
I was born in …
/5
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