End of Year Test — TEENS 5 – 2024
LISTENING
Task 1
You will hear a student, Francesca, talking to her class about a trip to Granada in Spain. For questions 1-10,
complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.
1 Francesca and her family stayed in a cave house / hotel while they were in Granada.
2 She liked the accommodation because it wasn't as cold / hot as it was outside.
3 Granada has an average temperature of 8 / 6 degrees during the winter.
4 The Alhambra palace was rebuilt in the thirteenth century so that it would be more modern / spacious.
5 Water came from the nearby countryside / well for the baths and gardens in the palace.
6 Francesca could imagine herself / kings and queens spending their time in the summer palace at the Alhambra.
7 She recommends buying your tickets online in order to avoid the queue / rush.
8 The original street market was built more than 500 / 800 years ago.
9 Francesca says the street market is a good place for buying unusual clothes / souvenirs.
10 She preferred the sweet cakes / savoury cakes to the different types of tea in the tea shops.
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USE OF ENGLISH
Task 1
Read the text and choose the correct word.
Maps
1. Nowadays, if you don't know where you're going, just turn on the GPS on your smartphone. At the touch of a
button, we ___ access detailed maps of the world.
2. The first GPS satellite ___ was known as NYS-2 appeared in the 1980s.
3. Before that, you would either have to ask someone for directions ___ use a map.
4. People ___ used maps for thousands of years and the earliest written maps date
from 2,300 BC.
5. They ___ written on clay tablets so they wouldn't have been easy to carry around.
6. ___, the invention of the printing press made it much easier to produce maps.
7. In the sixteenth century, the first world maps were created. These maps were detailed ___ for sailors to
find their way around the world.
8. Nowadays, most maps are made with computers and they tell you what direction you should be going in.
It makes you wonder what maps will ___ like in the future.
A or
B have
C can
D which
E enough
F be
G However
H were
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Task 2
Use the word given in capitals at the end of lines to form a word that fits in the gap.
The Pink Fairy Armadillo
This ___________ little creature is found in the grasslands of central Argentina. MYSTERY
It is the __________ member of the armadillo family, measuring around SMALL
ten centimetres in length. People think that it is cute due to its furry body, flexible
pink shell, or covering, and big feet. Unfortunately, very little is known about these
armadillos and over the years there have been few ________ studies of SCIENCE
their behaviour.
They are nocturnal animals, which means they are most ________ at night. ACT
It is a very __________ creature, which can only survive in certain places. SENSE
It needs desert-like conditions where it can dig into the sand and it must be able to
keep warm. For that reason, it won't survive for long if it is taken from its
________ habitat. Although it is believed that one armadillo may have lived. NATURE
for four years as a pet, most will only survive for a few days. __________ FORTUNE
some will not even survive being transported from the wild.
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Task 3: MIXED TENSES EXERCISES
Fill the gaps with the correct tenses.
1. I ___________ (learn) English for seven years now.
2. But last year I _____________ (not/work) hard enough for English, that's why my marks _________(not/be) really
that good then.
3. As I___________ (pass/want) my English exam successfully next year, I _________ (study) harder this term.
4. During my last summer holidays, my parents ___________ (send) me on a language course to London.
5. It _________ (be) great and I ________ (think) I ____________ (learn) a lot.
6. Before I _____________ (go) to London, I __________(not/enjoy) learning English.
7. But while I __________ (do) the language course, I ________ (meet) lots of young people from all over the world.
8. There I ___________ (notice) how important it _______ (be) to speak foreign languages nowadays.
9. Now I __________ (have) much more fun learning English than I _________ (have) before the course.
10. At the moment I _________ (revise) English grammar.
11. And I _________ (begin/already) to read the texts in my English textbooks again.
12. I _________ (think) I _________ (do) one unit every week.
13. My exam ________ (be) on 15 May, so there _________ (not/be) any time to be lost.
14. If I ________ (pass) my exams successfully, I __________ (start) an apprenticeship in September.
15. And after my apprenticeship, maybe I ________ (go) back to London to work there for a while.
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Task 4: Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
A. Yasmin asked me if I _________ (can) help her hang the washing up.
B. I asked Arjun what he ____________ (go) to do when he finished school.
C. The police officers warned us __________ (stay) indoors while they made sure the street was safe.
D. My brother _________ (name) after our grandfather when he was born.
E. If you want to go swimming, __________ (not/forget) to bring your swimming costume.
F. St Paul's Cathedral in London__________ (design) by the architect Sir Christopher Wren in the seventeenth
century.
G. If I had known it would be so hot, I ____________ (buy) a fan.
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Task 5: Complete the second sentence so that has a similar meaning to the first sentence using the world given.
Do not change the word given. Use between two and five words.
1. They got lost because they didn't take a map with them. WOULD
If they had taken a map with them, they _______ _______ _______ lost.
2. It was my first ever flight so I didn’t know what to expect. BEFORE
If I _______ _______ _______ , I would have known what to expect.
3. The government is very likely to ban petrol and diesel vehicles in the next twenty years. BE
It's very likely that petrol and diesel _______ _______ _______ by the government in the next twenty years.
4 You can only go out with your friends when you've organized your room. UP
If you _______ _______ your room, you can't go out with your friends.
5 I found both of the documentaries about cloning boring. EITHER
I didn’t like _______ _______ _______ documentaries about cloning. _/5
RREADING
Task 1
Read the article and choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.
1 What does the writer say about travellers on the underground in paragraph 1?
A It's surprising to see them using smartphones.
B They're using their smartphones to find their way out of the station,
C They're all concentrating hard on their smartphones.
D They're only checking their messages on their smartphones.
2 What does the writer say about the telephone in paragraph 2?
A It had a number of different purposes.
B It changed significantly in the twentieth century.
C It had the same features as most modern smartphones.
D It helped us communicate with people who were far away.
3 What does the writer think about using smartphones for work?
A They make us less efficient at work.
B They make it difficult to stop working.
C They stop us from going home on time.
D They can be costly for companies.
4 Why does the writer mention an earthquake in paragraph 57?
A to show that some news might not be accurate
B to show how smartphones can help rescue operations
C to show that we are all interested in world news
D to show how long it takes us to get the latest news
5 How does the writer feel about smartphones in general?
A enthusiastic about what they'!! be like in future
B concerned about the negative aspects of their use
C fed up with people using them on public transport
D proud of the fact that he doesn't use one
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Have smartphones changed our lives for the better?
1 4
It's hard to believe that smartphones have only been What about work? Surely, smartphones have made us
around for littie over a decade. They're now so common more efficient in our jobs? After all, we can send and
that it's surprising if someone doesn't have one. As I sit receive emails at any time, organise our schedules and
on the underground in the mornings, all I see are tired- make sure we don't miss an important call. That's great
looking travellers staring at their smartphones. When I for our companies, but not so great for us or our
step off the underground, others are navigating the families. In the past, when we finished work, we would
platform, eyes still fixed on their screens. Most of them go home and forget about it. Nowadays, smartphones
will spend the rest of their day checking their messages mean many people take their work home with them so
and the latest news updates or keeping up on celebrity there is less time to relax. Apart from making you more
gossip. tired, this can have a negative effect on your personal
relationships, with more arguments and
misunderstandings.
2 5
There's no doubt that the smartphone has changed our But smartphones are fantastic for knowing what's going
lives significantly. For most of the twentieth century, the on in the world, right? Well, that's true to a certain
telephone changed little. lt only allowed us to talk to extent. In the past, we used to rely on papers or
people over long distances and, later, send text television and radio for our news. Sometimes, you had
messages to them. The smartphone, however, changed to wait for a whole day before hearing the latest
all of that by adding features such as cameras, GPS and updates. However, the online newspapers and social
sophisticated computer technology. They are multi- networks which we use nowadays are constantly
purpose tools, whose uses are only limited by the updated. lf there's an earthquake on an island on the
imaginations of computer programmers. If you're lost, other side of the world, we know about it in minutes.
your phone will help you find your way. If you're feeling But can we really trust the social networks for our news?
lonely, it will help you find the perfect friend. You can Were the reporters on the island when the earthquake
even do your shopping on it, without leaving the happened? Or were they just repeating a story that
comfort of your kitchen. The problem is that we've they'd seen on another social network?
become so dependent on this technology that we've
failed to notice the dangers.
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What worries me most is that we are now more I'm not trying to say that the smartphone was a bad
interested in our smartphones than in the people invention. | couldn't imagine not being able to search
around us. How many of us check our phones before for a recipe or share my photos with my family and
we've even said 'good morning' to our families? How friends. However, I strongly believe that we need to
many of us are checking our friends' online profiles understand the risks related to their use. We should ask
when we could be talking to them? Instead of actually ourselves whether working longer hours or having fewer
talking to people, we send them three-word messages 'real' conversations is a good thing. lf we disagree, then
or emojis. One advantage of the telephone was that it we must think carefully about the way we use our
helped us become more communicative. Smartphones, smartphones.
on the other hand, have limited the way we
communicate with others.
WRITING
Write your answer to one of the questions in this part. Write your answer in 140-190 words in an appropriate
style. Write your answer on a separate answer sheet. Choose one of the questions below.
Option 1
In your English class, you have been talking about voluntary work. Now your English teacher has asked you to write
an essay.
Write your essay using all the notes and giving reasons for your point of view.
Some people think that doing voluntary work can be a positive experience for young people. Do you agree?
Write about:
1 helping others
2 leaming new skills
3 _____________ (your own idea)
Write your essay in 140-190 words.
Option 2
Read part of an email you have received from an English-speaking friend.
From: Blanca
Subject: My visit
I can't believe I'm coming to see you next week! It'll be wonderful to spend some together and get to know your
country.
Can you tell me about what we can do in your town? What sort of clothes should I bring with me? What's the best
way to get to your house from the airport?
Thanks,
Blanca.
Write your email in 140-190 words.
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TOTAL:
LISTENING: ____
GRAMMAR: ____
READING: ____
WRITING: ____
