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Vocabulary 3 Complete the dialogue with the correct containers.

1 Complete the sentences with the correct words. Gary: I’m going to the supermarket; do you want
anything?
1 My favourite hot drink is __________ with milk. I don’t
like coffee or hot chocolate. Sue: Yes, can you buy a 1 __________ of crisps,
please?
2 __________ are long, thin, green vegetables – you
eat them in salads. Gary: Sure.
3 I always take a bottle of cold __________ on a run. I Sue: Oh, and a big 2 __________ of chocolates for
never have fizzy drinks or anything with milk! Dan’s birthday.
4 People often eat __________ with curry. It’s small Gary: Yes, and we need a 3 __________ of tuna to
and can be white or brown. You cook it in water. make tuna pasta.
5 I love __________. They’re my favourite fruit. I like Sue: Good idea. Can you get some milk? I’d like a
the green ones, but I love the red ones from the tree 4 __________ of milk with some biscuits later.
near my house. Gary: Yes and I’d like some milk so I can have a
6 __________ are brown or white on the outside and 5 __________ of coffee. Anything else?
yellow and white inside. They come from chickens. Sue: Yes, a big 6 __________ of water.
7 I’ve got some meat to cook on the barbeque – Gary: OK, see you later.
sausages and __________. Can you bring chicken
and fish? Sue: Bye!
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2 Write the correct words for the descriptions. There

are more words than you need.
chicken cream crisps egg grape mushroom
pancakes salt spinach

1 A snack made with potatoes _______________

2 A food people eat for breakfast or dessert
_______________
3 A kind of meat _______________
4 A small green or purple fruit _______________
5 Something you use to add taste to food
_______________
6 A light brown vegetable _______________
7 A green vegetable that helps make you strong
_______________
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Grammar 7 Complete the sentences with should or shouldn’t and

a verb in the box.
4 Tick (P) the uncountable noun in each group.
be buy do drink eat teach
1 o fizzy drink o strawberry o sugar o sausage
o lentil 1 Everyone _______________ a lot of fresh fruit and
2 o pear o salt o biscuit o apple o nut vegetables.

3 o pancake o carrot o rice o tomato o crisp 2 In my opinion, there _______________ any adverts
for fizzy drinks on TV. They’re awful.
4 o bean o soup o cucumber o egg o yoghurt
3 Why do you spend all your money on pizza? You
5 o pepper o cabbage o burger o melon o _______________ a variety of food with your money.
cream
4 Schools _______________ young people about
Score __/5 healthy eating. It’s important to learn about it.
5 You _______________ too much coffee. It isn’t good
5 Complete the sentences with a/an, some or any.
for you.
1 Have we got __________ pancakes?
6 It’s a terrible problem. What _______________ we
2 Do you want __________ orange? _______________ about it?
3 There isn’t __________ rice in the cupboard. Score __/6
4 Matt doesn’t want __________ pear.
5 Have we got __________ fruit?
6 I’d like __________ burgers, please.
7 There’s __________ milk in the glass.
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6 Complete the mini dialogues with a lot of, much or

many.
1 Ana: Do you spend _______________ time online?
Ben: No, I don’t.
2 Ali: How _______________ adverts did you see
yesterday?
Bob: Hundreds!
3 Amy: Are there any books about healthy food?
Sam: Yes, there are _______________ books –
there are thousands of them.
4 Liz: How _______________ sugar do you eat every
day?
Dan: I try not to eat any sugar.
5 Tom: Have we got a lot of soup?
Joe: No, we don’t have _______________ soup.
6 Jac: Are there _______________ people in the
supermarket?
Avi: Yes, it’s busy.
7 Zoe: Are crisps popular in your country?
Mae: Yes! _______________ people eat them.

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Use of English Listening

8 Read the text below and think of the word that best 9 XðListen to some street interviews. Match Speakers
fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. (1–5) with their opinions. There is one extra opinion
you do not need.
Cupcakes: fun facts
1 Speaker 1 ________

How 1 __________ cupcakes do you usually eat a 2 Speaker 2 ________

week? Find out all you need to know about 3 Speaker 3 ________
cupcakes in our fun guide! 4 Speaker 4 ________
5 Speaker 5 ________
* The first time 2 __________ was a recipe for
a Some foods make you feel good.
cupcakes in a book was in 3 __________ American
cook book by Amelia Simmons in 1796. b Food doesn’t make you think well, exercise does.
c It is not important what you eat or drink.
* People also called them 1234 cakes because you d There are foods that can help you remember.
had 4 __________ use 1 cup of butter, 2 cups of
e When you don’t eat you can’t think well.
sugar, 3 cups of flour and 4 eggs.
f There are foods that help your brain.
* Today, people love cupcakes because they are Score __/5
easy to make and anyone 5 __________ cook
10 Listen again and complete the sentences. Write one
them.
or two words, or a number.

* Cupcakes became very popular around the start Speaker 1

of the century. The first place to only cook 1 This speaker says you should eat _______________
meals a day.
cupcakes, Sprinkles Cupcakes, opened
6 __________ 2005. They make over 25,000 Speaker 2

cupcakes a day! 2 Vegetables such as _______________ and broccoli

help your brain stay young.
* Georgetown Cupcake hold the record for the 3 When _______________ people eat dark green
biggest cupcake. They made 7 __________ huge vegetables it helps their brains.
cupcake – it was 1,176.6 kg! Speaker 3
4 To feel happy you should eat _______________
* Cupcakes contain sugar, so you 8 __________ almond nuts a day.
eat them too often – it’s not a good idea.
Speaker 4
5 According to this speaker, activities like running and
Score __/8
_______________ can help you to think.
Speaker 5
6 You must eat strawberries _______________ a week
to remember better.
7 As well as strawberries, dark _______________ and
broccoli help memory.
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Reading c Which ones do people like?

d Are biscuits the best snack?

e How many types of biscuit are there?

Biscuits, biscuits, biscuits
1 f Why do people travel with them?
No, but they’re very popular. Around 53% of Brits (British
people) say they love biscuits and there’s even a National Score __/5
Biscuit Day, on 29 May. Brits buy a lot of biscuits – around
500 a year – and they usually eat them for ‘elevenses’ 12 Read the text again and choose the correct answer.
around 11 am or in the afternoon for a snack. They eat 1 Over half of British people …
more biscuits than any other country in the world – they
even eat 35% more biscuits than Americans. A eat thousands of biscuits every year.
B celebrate National Biscuit Day.
2
Biscuits are hundreds of years old. The word comes from C say that they really like biscuits.
the French, meaning twice (bi) cooked (cuit). In the past, 2 The average British person …
people cooked biscuits two times to make them hard, but
A only eat biscuits in the morning.
today we usually only cook them once. Characters in two
of Shakespeare’s plays talk about biscuits! B buys around 500 biscuits a year
C don’t buy many biscuits every year.
3
Because they are hard, biscuits stay fresh and they’re 3 Which is true about biscuits?
light. In the past, they were a popular food on ships. A The word means ‘cooked two times’.
Roald Amundsen took some biscuits with him on his trip
B People still cook biscuits twice nowadays.
to the South Pole in 1911. He was the first person to
reach the Pole. Years later, in 1969, the astronaut Buzz C They first appeared about a hundred years ago.
Aldrin took biscuits with him into space.
4 There were biscuits … just before 1970.
4 A on ships
Most Brits put their biscuits in a special biscuit tin and
B at the South Pole
61% of people in the UK have one. However, in a recent
survey many people said they hide their favourite C in space
biscuits. They don’t want anyone else to eat them! Nine 5 Just over 60% of British people …
percent of people hide them in their chest of drawers, 7%
A hide their biscuits.
under the bed, 7% at the back of the wardrobe and 10%
in the small table by their bed. B have a biscuit tin for their biscuits.
C don’t put their biscuits in a special place.
5
Jaffa Cakes are a popular biscuit made with jam and 6 Where do more people hide their biscuits?
chocolate and people eat over a billion a year. Next to each A under the bed
other, the biscuits could go from London to Sydney and B at the back of the wardrobe
back again – that’s nearly 34,000 km! Custard Creams are
C in a table beside the bed
another top biscuit. In 2010 in Nottingham, they cooked a
giant Custard Cream. It was 59 cm long and 15.73 7 The big biscuit they cooked in Nottingham …
kilograms! A was almost 60 cm long.
B was under 15 kilograms.
C went from London to Sydney.
11 Read the information leaflet and match the headings Score __/7
(a–f) to paragraphs (1–5). There is one extra heading
you do not need.
1 Paragraph 1 ________
2 Paragraph 2 ________

3 Paragraph 3 ________

4 Paragraph 4 ________

5 Paragraph 5 ________

a Where do people keep them?

b Where does the name come from?

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13 In your opinion, are biscuits a healthy snack?

Why/Why not? What do you recommend as a healthy
snack?
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Writing Speaking
14 You want to have barbecue at the park on Sunday at 15 Work in pairs. Look at the menu and order lunch. In
4 pm to celebrate your sister’s birthday. You’d like to your dialogue:
invite your friend, Sarah. Write an email to Sarah. In
• ask/say what you would like to eat and drink
your email:
• ask/say what there is
• ask Sarah to come to the barbecue on Sunday
• ask for/give the bill
• say where the barbecue is and what time it starts
• ask Sarah to bring her guitar
Menu
Write 35–50 words.
________________________________________________
Main meals
Fish curry with rice £2.50
________________________________________________
Tuna Pasta £1.95
________________________________________________
Vegetable or chicken burger £2.25
________________________________________________
Extras
________________________________________________
Salad 75p
________________________________________________
Green beans 50p
________________________________________________ Garlic bread 50p
________________________________________________
Desserts
________________________________________________
Pancakes (apple, strawberry, honey) £1.50
________________________________________________
Yoghurt 99p
________________________________________________ Pear cheesecake 75p
________________________________________________
Drinks
________________________________________________
Milkshake small £1.10 large £1.50
________________________________________________ Bottled water small 99p large £1.50
________________________________________________ Fresh juice £1.50
________________________________________________
Score __/10
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________________________________________________ Vocabulary __/20

________________________________________________ Grammar __/25
________________________________________________ Use of English __/8
Listening __/12
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Reading __/15
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Writing __/10
________________________________________________ Speaking __/10
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________________________________________________ TOTAL __/100

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Score __/10
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