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3 Choose the correct word in italics.

1  Listen to Leo’s conversation at the ticket
office in a railway station. Answer the questions.
1 My flight was at 8.00 a.m. because / so I got up at
Use one word, a time or a number.
5.00 a.m.
2 Tom likes driving because / so public transport isn’t
1 How many tickets does Leo want to buy?
very good where he lives.
__________
3 My sister likes Indian food because / so she makes
2 Where does Leo want to travel to? __________
a lot of it at home.
3 What time is the Friday afternoon train?
4 I like to have dinner with my grandmother
__________
because / so she’s a very good cook.
4 How much is one return ticket? __________ euros
5 Pedro is a photographer because / so he has a lot of
5 What platform does the train leave from?
expensive cameras.
__________
2 points for each correct answer 10
2 points for each correct answer 10
4 Choose the correct answer from the words in
2  Listen to a conversation between Barbara and
italics to complete the text.
Leo. For questions 1–5, complete the sentences.
Use one or two words in each space.
Different holidays
1 Barbara is hungry and wants to have some In the past people usually spent their holidays by the
____________________. beach. Then new types of holidays started, like winter
2 Barbara likes the ____________________ in the sports holidays. They became very popular with young
Thai restaurant. people. They 1 wanted / didn’t want to lie on a beach
3 Leo doesn’t like ____________________ food. for a week − they wanted to 2 take / go skiing or
4 Barbara wants to have a table by the walking in the mountains instead. But now there’s a
____________________. completely new type of holiday − cooking holidays,
5 They decide to take a ____________________ to and they are becoming really popular. As TV-cooking
the restaurant. programmes became popular in the 1990s, holiday
companies 3 decided / didn’t decide to start to sell
2 points for each correct answer 10 cooking holidays. Nowadays you 4 can / can’t choose
from thousands of cooking holidays on the internet.
These courses will teach you things like how to bake
cakes, or how to 5 mix / roast beef in the French style.
You generally don’t need to buy 6 any / much
ingredients and you 7 don’t have to / should bring your
own equipment – the companies usually give you
everything you need. And you 8 should / shouldn’t
wear old clothes because you could get dirty in the
kitchen. Also remember to 9 take / leave a notebook
because there is 10 a lot of / any information to
remember.

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5 Read the text. Decide if the sentences are true Stopping traffic problems
(T) or false (F). If there is no information about
Many large cities have traffic problems, but it’s
this, choose ‘not given’ (NG).
difficult to stop people using their cars. We know we
1 People drive their cars a lot because public shouldn’t drive everywhere and should take public
transport is too expensive. __________ transport, but we don’t do it. People love their cars and
2 People don’t have to use public transport in small public transport in many places is not very good. A
cities. __________ GPS company studied why there are lots of traffic
3 About 33% of drivers are trying to find somewhere problems in cities. What did they find? They found
to park. __________ that a third of cars on the roads are drivers looking for
4 The way people drive their cars is the main reason a parking place. These drivers are driving around and
for traffic problems. __________ around the city when they don’t need to. Now there is
5 Angry drivers make more problems than slow technology that can tell drivers where there are empty
drivers. __________ parking spaces, but the problems continue. The most
important reason for traffic problems is people. Did
2 points for each correct answer 10 you know that most people drive too fast or too slow?
Angry drivers do things too quickly and nervous
6 Read the text again. Complete the sentences with drivers are too slow. Both these actions make traffic
one or two words from the text. problems.

1 There is technology to tell cars about the In the past we didn’t know what to do about this
__________. problem, but now there are lots of answers. For
2 Technology can help drivers __________ their example, there’s technology for cars to ‘talk’ to each
travel around cities better. other and tell each other about the traffic situation. A
3 Istanbul and Sydney have a good _________ company tested the technology and it stopped many
service now. traffic problems. The cars sent messages to each other
4 Other ideas for the future include buses without about the area and the drivers could plan their journeys
drivers and roads only for people on a __________. better. Some cities want to make public transport
5 Nowadays people prefer their cars because they are better. For example, ten years ago Istanbul and Sydney
__________. didn’t have good public transport. But they increased
the number of boats for public transport and now the
2 points for each correct answer 10 service is much better. Not all cities can do this, but it
is great for cities beside rivers or next to the sea. In the
future there could be more ideas such as bicycle-only
roads or buses with robot drivers. At the moment
people choose their cars because they are comfortable
and they can listen to music or the radio. The public
transport of the future needs to be better.

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7 Write an email to your friend, Paula

recommending a restaurant. Write 40–50 words.

In your email, you should write about:

• the food and prices.
• the view.
• why you like it.

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SPEAKING

Student A

8 Work with a partner. Ask for and give opinions.

• Ask you partner for his/her opinions about children

playing video games.
• Agree or disagree with your partner and say why.
• Give your opinions about children playing video
games.

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SPEAKING

Student B

8 Work with a partner. Ask for and give opinions.

• Ask you partner for his/her opinions about how to

be healthy.
• Agree or disagree with your partner and say why.
• Give your opinions about how to be healthy.

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