Unit 10

Student name

Group/Class

Date Score

LISTENING

1 Listen to f ive short conversations. Choose the best answers, A, B, C or D. Unit 10 Listening

Conversation 1

1 What does the boy say about his new phone?

A He bought it while he was away.
B It didn’t cost a lot of money.
C He can take good pictures with it.
D He can afford a better one.
Conversation 2

2 What does the girl want Bill to do?

A She wants him to fix her television.
B She wants him to tell her who’s winning the football.
C She wants him to repair her DVD player.
D She wants him to look at her computer.
Conversation 3

3 What did the girl not enjoy about her trip to London?
A T he train carriage was noisy.
B She had to stand up on the journey home.
C She couldn’t find the shoes she wanted.
D She fell asleep on the train.
Conversation 4

4 Why can’t the boy take pictures for his project?

A He hasn’t got a digital camera.
B T he quality of his camera is poor.
C He can’t depend on his camera.
D He hasn’t got a camera.
Conversation 5

5 Why couldn’t the boy download the app?

A He hasn’t got a pen drive.
B He needed more space on his hard drive.
C He had the wrong computer.
D He can’t save the photos on his computer.

Score: /5

GRAMMAR
 2 Rewrite the sentences in the passive f orm.

1 Someone is delivering our new computer later today.

2 Someone has asked me to tell you about the new classroom computers.

3 I tried to change the order, but they had already sent the books.

4 A service company regularly repairs our computers.

5 It doesn’t work because you haven’t connected the cable.

Score: /5

3 Choose the correct alternatives to complete the text.

I (1) have been asked/am asked by the head teacher to inform you of the arrangements for the parents’ evening which (2)
is held/is being held this evening. Parents have been told to go to the main hall where Mrs Davies will welcome them. After
talking to individual teachers, coffee and snacks (3) are be provided/will be provided in the cafeteria. T he main hall
(4) has been closed/was closed since this morning and students from classes J, K and L are expected to help put out tables
and chairs this afternoon. We hope this evening will be successful and that all parents (5) will be/would be fully informed
about their child’s progress.

Score: /5

VOCABULARY

4 Complete the sentences with nouns related to computers.

1 I’ve got a and a computer. I prefer the computer for emails because of its keyboard.
2 My computer crashed yesterday, but luckily we got a lot of the information back from the .
3 Put the memory stick into any on your computer and you can save information very fast.
4 I use a attached to my computer so my friends can see me when we’re chatting.
5 My computer is far too small and is starting to give me headaches.

Score: /5

5 Choose the correct alternatives to complete the sentences.

1 I’ve tried sending this email several times, but it keeps bouncing off/back.
2 Unfortunately, I lost/deleted your last email by mistake. Was it important?
3 Can you forward/reply this email to all your friends?
4 I don’t usually download/check my email more than once a day.
5 I typed in the wrong email address/account and it went to the wrong person. I was very embarrassed!

Score: /5
 6 Complete the sentences with the correct f orm of these words. T here are two extra words.

chat download print scan search speak surf

1 I some interesting articles from the Internet for the project last night.
2 My grandma has just learned how to the Internet and she loves it!
3 I usually spend about an hour every evening with my friends online.
4 I can’t hear anything. Are you sure the are connected?
5 I need a hardcopy of this document. Have you got a I could use?

Score: /5

USE OF ENGLISH

7 Complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the f irst. Use no more than three words.

1 T hey told me to give a talk about global warming.

I have to give a talk about global warming.
2 We do not often eat meat in our family.
Meat is in our family.
3 You should protect your computer against viruses.
Your computer against viruses.
4 My teeth are checked at the dentist’s every six months.
I get at the dentist’s every six months.
5 Someone stole my phone on the train this morning.
My phone on the train this morning.
6 Marconi invented the radio.
T he radio was Marconi.
7 You should shut down your computer when you aren’t using it.
Your computer down when you aren’t using it.
8 T he students have put the laptops away.
T he laptops away by the students.
9 T hey are going to take a photo of him this afternoon.
He’s going to have this afternoon.
10 Are they going to show that programme again?
Is that be shown again?

Score: / 10

READING
 A

I think the technology we’ve got available in our lives today is amazing and I can’t imagine what life was like in the past
without it. T echnology has come a long way in recent years and it‘s changed our lives in so many ways – it’s given us
freedom and independence! We can book a holiday, we can work or study at home, we can do housework faster, we
can interact with our friends and even watch films and T V while we’re traveling! Not only that, but now we don’t have
to leave home to do things that used to take a lot of time. We just touch a key on our computer and order a meal or
book a train! In general, I’m a fan!

I’m not sure that all these changes in our lives because of technology are positive ones. Now, because we can get all
this information so quickly, we’re expected to do things faster and faster. Something that might have taken days to
do in the past, like researching a project, can be done in minutes on the Internet. T hat means expectations have gone
up about how much people can do in the time they’ve got. Now you have to be able to do ten things a day instead of
two and to think and act faster than ever before. Sometimes it can be stressful.

T here isn’t often much time to relax and be quiet – to just switch off - because people can contact you at any time.
With email, social networking and text messaging all available on our smartphones, we’re constantly connected.
T here are times when that’s good. It’s great when friends get in touch, or when you need to check the time of a bus or
train quickly. However, most times it’s work, or people you don’t want to talk to that contact you. We’re always
receiving advertisements by email and being called by people trying to sell us things.

I moved to Australia with my family last year and technology has really helped me to stay in contact with all my friends
and relatives back in England. I was lonely when we first came to Melbourne but now I use video chat and instant
messaging to talk to them almost every day and we can share photos and videos too. I feel that we’re still connected
and they always know what’s happening in my life. We live in different continents but technology means that we can
easily bridge the distance in the virtual world!

8 Read the blog posts about people’s opinions of technology. Match the comments (1–6) with the people (A–D).
You can use the people more than once.

1 It can be a disadvantage that we are constantly connected to everyone.

2 T echnology helped me to socialise with people I don’t see often.
3 T echnology has created more work for us, not less.
4 T here are definitely more advantages than disadvantages.
5 T echnology means we’re not dependent on other people to do things.
6 It’s stressful that everything is faster nowadays.

Score: /6