FIRST TERM SPEAKING TEST FOR 3RD C.S.E.

v  BACKGROUND:

Ø  Yesterday morning at 8.30 there was an accident between a bicycle and a lorry at the junction of Green Lanes and Seven Sisters Road. It was raining, but visibility was good. The lorry was travelling up Green Lanes and the cyclist was travelling west. Neither the lorry driver nor the cyclist was injured, but the bicycle was a mangled wreck. The driver and the cyclist both have to make a report to the police, which will be used in an insurance claim. They blame each other. There are some independent witnesses.

v  Work in groups of four to role-play the ensuing argument. (Add roles if there are spare students in one group, e.g. the lorry driver’s mate)

Ø  Student A: lorry driver.

Ø  Student B: cyclist.

Ø  Student C: witness.

Ø  Student D: police officer

v  When you finish, write a report of what happened from your point of view. Include information/questions about the traffic, the location, speed and direction of the vehicles and what you heard and saw next. Take turns to read out your report.

FIRST TEST

READING

Punk rock began in New York, around 1976. Punk wasn’t just a new type of music, it was a new style and a new attitude. American groups like the New York Dolls and Television had strange hair, they wore strange clothes, and they did strange things, for example vomiting in front of photographers!

The first punk groups were from New York but in 1977 London became the centre of the punk world with the creation of the Sex Pistols. Their vocalist, Johnny Rotten, was the hero of a new generation, a generation of teenagers who wanted to rebel. The Sex Pistols’ songs attacked the Queen, the government and all of society in general. Some people say that punk music wasn’t very good but that was part of the message. The message was that you don’t need to play an instrument well to be in a band, you just need to have something to say.

What about punk today? Johnny Rotten now calls himself by his real name, John Lydon. He’s 50, he appears on reality shows on TV and his punk days are behind him. But there are a lot of modern punk groups like Green Day, Rancid and Blink 182, and even pop groups like McFly have a punk element in their clothes, attitude and musical style. Punk isn’t dead!

1.   Read the text and choose the best title.

a.     A short history of the Sex Pistols.

b.     A short history of punk.

c.     A short history of American punk.

2.   Read the text and answer the questions.

a.     Who were the New York Dolls and Television? ………………………………….………………………………….………..

b.     How did they attract attention? ………………………………….………………………………….………………………………….

c.     Why was London important in 1977? ………………………………….………………………………….………………………….

d.     Who was Johnny Rotten? …………………………………………………….………………………………….……………………………

e.     What was one of the messages of punk? ………………………………….………………………………….………………….

f.     Who is John Lydon? What do you know about him? ………………………………….………………………………….

3.   Find a synonym for:

a.     Started ……………………………………….

b.     Odd ………………………………………………

c.     Adolescents…………………………………

d.     Disobedient …………………………………

4.   Are these sentences True or False? Copy the evidence from the text.

a.     Groups like New York Dolls disguise themselves to act. ………………………………….……………………………

b.     Sex Pistols are not very cruel with the Monarchy. ………………………………….……………………………………

c.     Green Day is a pop group using punk elements. ………………………………….………………………..…………………

d.     Nowadays, punk is on. ………………………………….………………………………….………………………………….…………………

VOCABULARY

1.   Find a word for these definitions.

a.     A …………………………………. operates on patients.

b.     A …………………………………. fights fires.

c.     A …………………………………. styles hair.

d.     A ………………………provides beauty treatments.

e.     A …………………………………. sells things in shops.

f.     A …………………………………. fixes pipes.

2.   Write words for the definitions.

a.      When you tell everybody that you’re very good at something. …………………………………………………..

b.      When you say unkind things to somebody because you think it’s funny. ………………………………….

c.      When you look at somebody or something for a long time. ………………………………………………………….

d.      When you put your arms around somebody to show that you like them. ………………………………….

GRAMMAR

1.   Complete the text. Use the verbs to be and to have got.

I’m Kelly Samson and I …………………………………. (1) fifteen years old. I …………………………………. (2) long, dark hair and brown eyes. I …………………………………. (3) any brothers or sisters, but I’ve got a lot of friends. I’m a student at St Philip’s Secondary School. My two favourite subjects…………………………………. (4) English and art. Sarah Portland is my best friend at school. She ………………………………….(5) fourteen years old.  She …………………………………. (6) long, blonde hair and blue eyes. She lives with her mum and her brother, Luke. Luke …………………………………. (7) only eight years old, so he …………………………………. (8) at our school. He goes to Westlake Primary School.

2.   Complete the dialogue. Use the present continuousof the verbs in the box.

Cry       Do       Fight           Give           Have           Play         Try             Write
Sally	Hi, Ben.
Ben	Hi, Sally. Where are you?
Sally	At home. I (1) ………………………………….my homework. What about you?
Ben	I’m in a café with Jack. We (2) ………………………………….a pizza.
Sally	Lucky you! I (3) ………………………………….a French composition.
Ben	What’s that noise?
Sally	It’s my little brother and sister. They (4) …………………………………. . Beth (5) …………………………………. Because Jamie (6) ………………………………….with her ball. Stop it, you two! I (7) ………………………………….to work!
Ben	Do you want to go to the cinema with us? The film starts in an hour.
Sally	Good idea. This noise (8) ………………………………….me a headache!

3.   Rewrite these sentences using the present simplenegative and the words in brackets.

a.     He reads magazines. (newspapers) ………………………………….………………………………….………………………………….

b.     I listen to hip-hop. (heavy metal) ………………………………….………………………………….…………………………………..

c.     She studies French. (German) ………………………………….………………………………….………………………………….……..

d.     We go skiing in the winter. (summer) ………………………………….………………………………….…………………………….

e.     They play chess at school. (home) ………………………………….………………………………….………………………………….

f.     He does aerobics. (gymnastics) ………………………………….………………………………….………………………………….…..

4.   Fill in the gaps using the present simple or the present continuous form of the verbs in brackets.

a.     Dolphins …………………………………. (eat) fish.

b.     …………………………………. (it rain) at the moment?

c.     Look! John …………………………………. (wear) my jacket.

d.     She ………………………………….(always play) volleyball on Fridays.

e.     Angela isn’t at home. She ………………………………….(visit).

f.     I ………………………………….(usually do) my homework in my room.

g.     Why …………………………………. (you laugh)? What’s funny?

5.   Write the past simple and the meaning  of these verbs.

a.     Work ………………………………….

b.     Go ……………………………………….

c.     Visit …………………………………..

d.     Learn ………………………………….

e.     Think ………………………………….

f.     Do ……………………………………..

g.     Play …………………………………..

h.     Hear …………………………………

i.      Stop ………………………………….

j.      Tidy …………………………………..

6.   Make these sentences negative or interrogative.

a.     I went shopping yesterday. (-)………………………………….………………………………….…………………………………..

b.     I found some money last week. (?)………………………………….………………………………….…………………………..

c.     I felt annoyed this morning. (-)………………………………….………………………………….…………………………………

d.     We had a maths lesson yesterday. (?)………………………………….………………………………….…………………….

e.     I sat at the front of the class last English lesson. (-)………………………………….……………………………

f.     I saw a film last weekend. (?)………………………………….………………………………….…………………………………….

g.     We had pizza for dinner last night. (-)………………………………….………………………………….……………………

h.     I did my homework yesterday. (?)………………………………….………………………………….……………………………

7.   Add – ed and –s/- es to the following verbs and classify them according to their pronunciation.

Accept, Agree, Answer, Arrest, Arrive, Ask, Bake, Believe, Brush, Call, Carry, Close, Collect, Contact, Cook, Count, Crash, Dance, Decide, Demand, Drop, End, Enjoy, Finish, Hate, Finish, Hate, Invent,l Look, Paint, Pull, Rain, Rain, Remember, Study, Try, Use.
/t/	/d/	/id/
/s/	/z/	/iz/

8. Complete the text with the expressions of quantity below. You can use some expressions more than once

Some          Any            A lot of               Much          Many

‘People drink (1) …………………………………. Coke and Pepsi in the USA and in Europe. There aren’t (2) ………………………………….people (only ten, more or less) who know all the ingredients of thse drinks. That’s because (3) ………………………………….of the ingredients are secret, but not all of them. In a can of drink there is (4) ………………………………….water – water constitutes more than 95% of the total. Usually the drinks are very sweet because there is (5) ………………………………….sugar. but in drinks like Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi (called Coca-Cola Light and Pepsi Light in some countries) there isn’t (6) ………………………………….sugar (0%) in the special caffeine-free versions. Some people say that these drinks are bad for us because there aren’t (7) ………………………………….natural ingredients, only two or three. That’s one reason why, personally, I don’t (8) …………………………………. Pepsi or Coke, but I do drink it sometimes.’