Listening

3 Recording 2 Listen and answer the questions

1 Recording 1 Listen to a woman telling a story below.
and underline the correct answer, a), b) or c).
1 According to June, what activity did people used
1 The woman to be embarrassed or ashamed of doing?
a) has never been embarrassed. Writing with their left hand.
b) likes talking about herself. 2 How old was June when her parents realised
c) prefers other people’s stories. she was left-handed?
2 Her brother 3 How was she stopped from using her left hand
a) tells funny stories. to write with before she started school?
b) doesn’t like talking about himself.
c) hates people laughing at him. 4 What two reasons does June give for people not
being allowed to be left-handed in the past?
3 Her brother told her a story about
a) his holiday in Spain. 5 Which hand does June use to write with now?
b) his ex-wife.
c) an embarrassing experience. 6 What percentage of people in the world is
left-handed?
4 In the story, Bob
a) talks to a man who is lying on the beach.
b) saves a man who can’t swim. 5
c) helps a man get his boat onto the beach.

5 Bob communicated with the man Grammar

a) using only sign language.
4 Underline the correct alternative.
b) with gestures and incorrect English.
c) using incorrect Turkish. 1 Please don’t tell Sam about my new job. I haven’t
had chance to tell him the news already/yet.
6 Bob was embarrassed because 2 Does this bag belong/Is this bag belonging to
a) the man laughed at him and then said he wasn’t anybody in the class?
strong enough to help. 3 What time do you see/are you seeing Julie
b) the man didn’t speak English but thought Bob tonight?
could understand Turkish. 4 Are you sure they visited us in 2014? I thought
c) he had behaved foolishly because he thought they’d already/already had moved to America by
the man didn’t speak English. then.
5 I have to check these biscuits aren’t
5 containing/don’t contain nuts because I’m allergic
to them.
6 Who does eat/eats dinner before 10p.m.? In Spain,
2 Recording 1 Listen again and write true (T) or
we never do!
false (F).
7 My brother’s yet/just learnt to ski but before that
1 The woman doesn’t enjoy telling others he learnt to skateboard.
about situations she found embarrassing. T 8 I met/’ve met Susie in the shopping mall when I
2 Her brother Bob enjoys telling stories was doing some shopping.
about things that have happened to 9 While/Before I was enjoying a coffee in the town’s
people he knows. main square, I read the main items of news in the
3 Bob likes making people laugh but doesn’t local paper.
enjoy it when they laugh at him. 10 They’ve/’d worked on cruise ships for years
4 The story that she remembers took place before they decided to start their own
before her brother and his wife separated. entertainment company.
5 In the story, Bob was asked for help by 11 When Sara checked her phone, she realised/had
someone on the beach. realised she had missed three calls from her boss.
6 Bob thought the man was a local so he
used basic English and hand movements 10
to communicate with him.

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5 Complete the text with the correct answer, a), 7 Complete the sentences with the correct form
b) or c). of the word in CAPITALS.
Last call! 1 The students loved learning slang and other
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you ever missed a plane? I nearly 2 informal expressions in their English class.
last summer. I was flying from London to Sydney EXPRESS
and had to change planes in Los Angeles. The plane 2 Is fluency more important than when
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there at 6.30 in the morning and my flight to you’re learning another language?
Sydney was at 9.30. I walked around while I 4 ACCURATE
because I 5 been to LA airport before. Then I 3 When you apply for a job, don’t forget to send
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some breakfast in a coffee shop, read my with your CV.
book and checked emails on my phone. REFER
By 8.15, I was feeling rather bored so I 7 4 Adam has a successful business with more than
decided to find out which gate my Sydney flight thirty .
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from. I saw an information screen on the EMPLOY
wall and 9 to look at it. I found my flight on 5 I have a lot more in my new job as
the screen – and saw ‘Last call’ written there. I area manager.
couldn’t believe it! I then looked at my watch and RESPONSIBLE
realised I 10 the time on my watch back by 6 Did you find all the you needed at the
eight hours instead of seven! I ran to the gate and library?
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the time I got there, I was the last person to INFORM
get on the plane. How embarrassing! 7 I love comedies. They always make
me feel good.
1 a) Did b) Was c) Have ROMANCE
2 a) did b) had c) was 8 The film The Sixth Sense, with Bruce Willis, is an
3 a) landed b) has landed c) is landing excellent thriller.
4 a) ’ve waited b) ’d waited c) was waiting PSYCHOLOGY
5 a) ’d never b) ’ve ever c) was never
6 a) had b) was eating c) ’d had 7
7 a) ’d b) was c) -
8 a) had left b) will leave c) was leaving
8 Complete the sentences with the words in the
9 a) was going b) has gone c) went
box. There are two extra words.
10 a) ’ve changed b) ’d changed c) was changing
11 a) on b) from c) by chance classmates degree foreign hand
lunchtime purpose say tell weekend
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1 At the end of the school year, I helped my

Vocabulary classmates organise a big party.
2 Everyone at our school had to study a
6 Match 1–7 with a)–g).
language. I chose Spanish.
1 If you make friends with native b 3 After Charlotte got a in English
2 Last year our swimming team took literature she trained to become a teacher.
3 It’s a good idea to show 4 I’m sorry. I didn’t drop your laptop on .
4 I’m sorry. We’re in a bit of It was an accident.
5 Luckily, all the passengers survived 5 Wendy has started her own jewellery business and
6 The demonstration turned violent makes everything herself by .
7 Uncle Alex told us a really 6 Let’s meet at to discuss plans for next
week.
a) a hurry and can’t stop now. 7 Why don’t you just what you mean? It
b) speakers, your English will improve a lot faster. would make life a lot easier if you did.
c) funny story the other day. 8 Do you think it’s better to a white lie
d) part in a national competition. sometimes than to hurt someone’s feelings by
e) enthusiasm when you answer questions in an telling the truth?
interview.
f) after the police arrived. 7
g) the crash and no one was seriously hurt.

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Function
9 Cross out the response that is not possible. 1 d
Many people are like their siblings in some ways,
1 So then I fell off my bike! but twins are often even more alike. If you are born
a) Oh no! b) That’s right. c) Oh dear! at the same time as another baby and grow up with
2 Thanks for helping me out yesterday. them, it is likely you will be similar to each other.
a) No problem. b) You’re welcome. c) I see. But what would happen if you didn’t know you had
3 The concert starts at 7.30 on Saturday, right? a twin? How alike would you be?
a) That’s right. b) No problem. c) Yes. 2
4 Could I ask you something? In the USA, a pair of identical twins was split up
a) Go ahead. b) Of course. c) I see. when they were adopted as four-month-old babies.
5 Can I use your phone, please? Their new parents decided on their names and
a) Of course. b) Yes, I know. c) Go ahead. without knowing it, both called their son ‘Jim’.
6 And you’ll get a weekend off once a month. These two boys spent all of their childhood and
a) Go ahead. b) I understand. c) I see. teenage years living separate lives in different
places. And it wasn’t until they were thirty-nine
5 years old that they got to meet each other for the
first time. They were quite surprised to find how
10 Complete the conversation with words and similar they were.
phrases a)–f). 3
A: Did I tell you what 1 i to me when I was Although they didn’t look exactly the same, they
working in the bank last October? were both six feet tall and weighed 180 pounds.
B: No, you didn’t. They discovered that during their childhood they
A: Well, I’d just finished serving a customer and had both had a dog named ‘Toy’ and as adults they
was putting things away. And the 2 knew, had both married twice. Even more strangely, both
there were two people standing in front of my of their first wives were called ‘Linda’ and their
desk – wearing masks! second wives were called ‘Betty’. The Jims had
B: 3 ?I4 it! What 5 ? each had a son. One of them had called theirs
A: Nothing! I thought they were robbing the bank! ‘James Allan’ while the other named theirs ‘James
B: Oh 6 ! How 7 ! So, what happened Alan’.
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A: Well, I just looked at them. I was waiting for The similarities didn’t end there. They discovered
them to say ‘Hands up!’ or something. Then that they had both worked as sheriffs, owned the
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sudden, I remembered it was same type of car, smoked the same cigarettes and
Hallowe’en. That’s why they were wearing drank the same beer. They also suffered from the
masks. They were going to a party! same health problems, like severe headaches. In
B: Oh, no. That’s 10 ! later research on the pair, a psychologist* noticed
A: Yes. 11 end, we all laughed about it. that they both bit their nails. This was rather unusual
behaviour among identical twins.
a) frightening g) no 5
b) next h) next thing I However, while they were very similar, there were
c) In the i) happened also some clear differences. For example, one Jim
d) all of a j) don’t believe preferred to express himself through writing while
e) really funny k) Really the other preferred speaking. They also had different
f) did you do hairstyles and one Jim had married a third time
while the other hadn’t.
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Continued research on the Jim twins has proven to
Reading be very interesting and along with other research
findings has led to the discovery that the personality
11 Read the article opposite and complete the and identity of twins who have grown up apart is as
gaps with headings a)–f) below. alike as those that haven’t.
* Psychologist – someone who studies the human
a) Communication differences
mind and human behaviour.
b) What’s in a name?
c) A strange similarity
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d) Twins: A case of nature or nurture?
e) Fascinating results
f) Divided and reunited
12 Read the article again. Decide if the 14 Write a short news report about one of the
statements are true (T) or false (F). headlines below. Use the prompts to help if
necessary. Write 100–150 words.
1 Research has shown that all twins are the
same as each other. F
1 120 people homeless after floods
2 The Jim twins were adopted at birth by
two sets of American couples.
3 Neither set of parents knew what the 2 Airline employees strike demonstration
other twin had been called.
4 The two Jims grew up in the same area 3 Film star shot outside London home
unaware of the other’s existence until
they were almost forty. 1 Introduction – what happened
5 They expected to have a lot in common
when they first met in their thirties.
6 The two Jims were as tall and as heavy
as each other.
7 They had both married a ‘Betty’ and
then a ‘Linda’.
8 Even though they both had similar habits
they’d never worked in the same job.
9 Psychologists thought it unusual that
both twins bit their fingernails. 2 Background details
10 One of the key differences between
the twins was how they enjoyed
communicating with others.
11 Research shows that twins who live
apart as children behave very differently
from each other.

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3 Quote(s) – people’s opinions

Writing
13 Underline the correct alternative.
1 They visited all their relatives during/while they
were in Malaysia.
2 Alicia called me as soon as/by the time she got
my message.
3 By the time/While the police arrived at the house,
the thieves had disappeared.
4 I would like to make/take this opportunity to 4 Conclusion – the current situation
introduce myself.
5 He ended the email to his friend ‘Hope/I hoping to
hear from you soon’.
6 A typical way to end a letter of application is: ‘I
look forward to hear/hearing from you soon’.

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