UNIT 4
Oral Comprehension (10 points)
1
Listen to an interview about a festival. Tick (✓)
the sentences
T (true) or F (false). (5
points)
-
T
F
1 The festival takes place once a year.
2 All the participants must wear the same outfit.
3 The girls’ favourite part of the festival was getting to know other twins.
4 The girls got a prize in a sports contest.
5 The sisters hope to stay in contact with their new friends.
2 Listen again and complete the sentences. (5 points)
1 There were more than ................................................................. pairs of twins at the festival.
2 The festival begins with a ................................................................. .
3 The theme of this year’s festival was ................................................................. .
4 There was a ................................................................. at the end of the festival.
5 Sarah and Jenny will probably not participate in next year’s festival because the flights are ................................................................. .
1 Watch the video and tick (✓) the true sentences.
..... 1 English has taken words from other languages.
..... 2 Umbrella is an example of a word English gave to Italian.
..... 3 The word blog is from web and log.
..... 4 English gets many new words from social media.
..... 5 In 2014, there were 60 new words in an English dictionary.
2 Match A to B.
3 Can you list 10 words in your language that are borrowed from English?
4 Match
the words below to their meaning. Then guess which language English
borrowed each
word from. Write their numbers next to the
languages below.
UNIT UNIT 5
1. Listen
to a radio
interview
about unusual phenomena and choose the correct answer.
(5
points)
1 The ghost ship was … .
a from the 15th century
b a real Dutch ship
c a legend
2 A Fata Morgana … .
a can affect the water
b is a reflection of something in the distance
c is a ship with a ghost crew
3 In the late 1800s, the city in a Fata Morgana was … .
a Toronto b Buffalo c New York
4 St Elmo’s Fire … .
a happens after the sky clears up
b causes thunderstorms
c is seen as blue light
5 A hole-punch cloud … .
a is caused by UFOs
b results from a plane’s effect on a cloud
c is a type of cloud
2 Listen again and correct the words in bold in the sentences below. (5 points)
1 We see Fata Morgana images as smaller and closer than they actually are. ...............................................
2 In the 1890s, the Fata Morgana was seen across the ocean. ...............................................
3 St Elmo’s Fire is caused by electrical sparks after a thunderstorm. ...............................................
4 St Elmo is the wrong pronunciation of St Erasmus’ name in French. ...............................................
5 A hole-punch cloud has a hole of dark sky. ...............................................
