English Test.

Instituto Tecnolgico Superior Arias - Balparda.

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1. Listening
Listen carefully to the following extract of a newspaper.
This is Boney. Boney _______ an African elephant. It is an
_________ in THE WORLD CIRCUS. Boney ________ very
much. It can play some musical instruments.
It __________ in the circus and it works every day from 4:40pm to
22:00pm every evening.
Before the shows it ________ a fruit, bread, and water for ________.
Boney lives in the circus, in cage with other elephants. __________
cage number is 33. Boney loves apples but it __________like
bananas.

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2. Grammar
2.1 Choose the correct form of the following verbs and complete the sentences:
wake up get up - speak -open--do - live - play
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Ann_____________hand ball very well.

It____________ at 9:00 in the evening.
My parents____________ in a very small flat.
They are good students. They always______________their homework.
My students_____________ a little English.
First I _________ early in the morning and then I __________up.

2.2 Put the verbs between brackets in the correct form:

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Jane (not/drink) _________________very often.

What time (the banks/open) ____________________in Spain?
Where (John/come) _________________from?
It (take)__________________me an hour to get to work.
5. She (not/wake) _________________up early on Sundays.
6. We (never/are) ________________ late for school.

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3. Reading:
Penelope Cruz Penelope Cruz is a beautiful Spanish actress and
Oscar winner. She is in more than 40 films and Vicky Christina
Barcelona is one of her best films. The movie is about two young
Amercian women in Barcelona and the director is Woody Allen
from New York. It is a brilliant film and is now available on DVD.
Penelope Cruz is also a trained ballet dancer and is fluent in
Spanish, French, Italian and English. She is 1.63 m tall. She is a
vegetarian and her hobby is dominoes.
Penelope and her family are from Alcobendas near Madrid. Her
mothers name is Encarna and she is a hairdresser. Her sister
Monica is an actress like Penelope and she is famous on TV in Spain.
More great films with Penelope Cruz are Captain Corellis Mandolin and All the Pretty Horses and in
Spanish Belle Epoque and All About My Mother. Her next film is called Nine.
Penelopes friend is Javier Bardem and he is also a famous international film star. He is in the film
Vicky Christina Barcelona with Penelope and he is also an Oscar winner too. Javier is in more than
25 films. One of his best films is No Country for Old Men. His Oscar is for this film. Other great
films with Javier are Before Night Falls, The Sea Inside and Mondays in the Sun.
1 Who is the director of Vicky Christina Barcelona?
2 How tall is Penelope Cruz?
3 Is she a vegetarian?
4. Where is she from?
5. What is her mothers name?
6. Is her sister also famous?
7. Is Javier Bardem also an Oscar winner?

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4. Writing
Choose only one option
A) Write about your daily routine. Remember to include frequency adverbs ;)
B) Write and avert for a city /town. Remember to add expressions to describe what you have
chosen ;)

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