Unit Test 4 | Group B

DICTATION, LISTENING, COMMUNICATION, READING

Name: _______________________ Class: ____

DICTATION COMMUNICATION
1 [Track 08] Listen and write the sentences 3 Complete the dialogue with one word in each
that you hear. gap. The first letters are given.
_______________________________________
Tom: You’ll never guess what happened last Friday
_______________________________________ morning!
Jo: What? Tell me!
_______________________________________ Tom: To cut a long 1 s______________ short, I was
a hero for five minutes!
_______________________________________ Jo: Really? What happened?
Tom: Well, I was shopping in town.
2 B______________ I knew what was
_______________________________________
happening, a guy grabbed a woman’s bag!
_______________________________________ Jo: What did you do?
Tom: I chased him! 3 W______________ you believe
_______________________________________ it?
Jo: Wow! That was brave.
_______________________________________ Tom: Well, I could run faster than him! Hardly
4 h______________ I caught him when the
___ / 10
police arrived. Actually, it 5 t______________
LISTENING out he was a criminal on the loose who had
2 [Track 09] You are going to hear five short just escaped from prison.
extracts in which journalists talk about their Jo: You were lucky he didn’t hurt you.
profession. What does each journalist ___ / 10
particularly like about their work? Match each
speaker with their statement (A–H). There are
three extra letters.

Speaker 1 ___
Speaker 2 ___
Speaker 3 ___
Speaker 4 ___
Speaker 5 ___

A using the Internet to find information

B discovering and checking facts
C reporting crime stories
D finding out background information
E being constantly challenged
F choosing a story
G doing research about sports
H interviewing people connected to a story

___ / 10
 Unit test 4 | Group B
DICTATION, LISTENING, COMMUNICATION, READING
Name: _______________________ Class: ____

READING
4 Read the article. Match sentences A–F
with gaps 1–5 in the text. There is one
extra sentence.

School’s out!
Hundreds of thousands of school students didn’t go to Perhaps unbelievably, a recent survey shows that
school last Friday so they could take part in a small majority of teachers are in favour of pupils
demonstrations around the country to call attention to skipping class to support a cause they believe in by
the climate crisis, which some of them allege is going on a protest or march, or by volunteering. 5 ___
overlooked by businesses and some important They also mentioned that under no circumstances
politicians. 1 ___ They want to show the world how should children leave school alone for any reason, in
much they care about climate change and aim to order to protect their safety. Head teacher Margaret
focus everyone’s attention on what the country’s Walsh commented, ‘We would prefer to urge our
political parties propose to do about this question. students to talk to us about activities which they can
These protests were part of a global climate strike by organise in school to draw attention to important
many thousands of young people in over 150 topical issues such as the climate crisis. They are
countries around the world, which were inspired back most welcome to put in this kind of request’.
in 2018 by a Swedish teenager, Greta Thunberg.
2 ___ Greta became a teenage legend after she spent A However, they consider it is a great way of
a week protesting for climate change outside the raising students’ awareness of how they can
Swedish Parliament. Little did the fifteen-year-old make a difference to the world.
realise at the time that her heartwarming protest had B Young activists like her believe that world
already hit the headlines and gone viral, not only leaders understand the urgency of the
because of her demonstration, but also because she situation, but do little to implement change.
was breaking the law. She was only fifteen at the time C They revealed that there had never been such
and should have been at school! a high concentration of greenhouse gases in
The week before Friday’s school walk out, there had our planet’s atmosphere.
been more concerning news released about the D However, head teachers think it is harmful for
climate crisis. Some leading scientists had warned children to miss their lessons.
that it would be difficult, if not impossible, for the world E While the majority of attendees are children,
to undo the damage that has already been done to the teens and young adults, older family members
climate. 3 ___ The organisations which helped plan often accompany them to provide support and
last week’s student action agreed, and drew attention to ensure their safety.
to the importance to acting in the very near future. F Rarely has such a large-scale protest by young
Children and young people around the world are campaigners longing for change been seen.
trying to get across the same message. Among ___ / 10
protesters in the UK was twelve-year-old Katy, who
travelled from Cambridge to attend a demonstration in TOTAL ___ / 40
central London on Friday with her older sister Mel and
father Richard. Katy told us, ‘It’s not fair. The results of
climate change are going to affect my generation, who
won’t know what a snow fox is!’ Her sister added, ‘All
the kids in my school know about this. Why don’t
adults do something? We don’t understand.’
Although the Friday demonstrations are part of
a youth movement, it isn’t just the young who attend
these events.
4 ___ Katy and Mel’s father, Richard, told us, ‘Parents

like me have gone along firstly because we believe in

our children’s right to have a say in society. They
need to know they can make a difference. They need
to know that they can change the world for the better.’
He added that the younger generation has helped
raise their parents’ awareness of the importance of
trying to stop climate change, and of doing it
immediately.

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