Smart Time 2 Unit 3 Test - 2017-18
Smart Time 2 Unit 3 Test - 2017-18
Smart Time 2 Unit 3 Test - 2017-18
Vocabulary
1 Fill in: drop, grow, destroy, hang, weave, float, beg, bring, hide, shout.
1 Small drops of water ………………….. in the air forming clouds.
2 Whenever it snows, the children ………………….. their mother to go outside.
3 Stratus clouds ………………….. low in the sky.
4 My dogs usually ………………….. under the bed when there is a storm.
5 My neighbour’s children ………………….. so loud, that I can’t study for the exam.
6 Can you ………………….. me a plate from the kitchen?
7 Alex’s grandmother can ………………….. beautiful baskets.
8 Excuse me, did you ………………….. your glove?
9 People who live in the country have a lot of land to ………………….. crops.
10 Heavy rain can block the roads, ………………….. the crops and cause a lot of damage.
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Smart Time 2 - Unit 3 Name:
Grammar
1 Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past continuous to complete the sentences.
2 Complete the sentences using the adverb formed from the adjective in brackets
1 Pete can run very ……………………. (fast) and wins a lot of races.
Everyday English
Replace the underlined phrases (1-5) with the phrases from the list (A-E).
A: Hi, Bob. 1) How are you? I heard you had an accident in last night's storm.
B: I’m OK now but I wasn’t last night.
A: Why? What happened?
B: I was lying in bed reading a book when a tree branch came crashing through my window from the terrible
storm. There was glass all over the floor. 2) I was scared. .
A: Oh no! 3) That’s awful. .
B: Yes, it was. Luckily, the glass didn’t hit me.
A: 4) You were very lucky. .
B: I know.5) I'm glad I'm OK now. .
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Reading
Read the text and for questions 1-4 choose the best answer (A, B or C).
History books are full of tales of strange things happening with the weather, but none may
be stranger than ‘animal rain’. Stories of raining frogs and fish might sound like something
from a fairytale, but from as far back as the first century there are reports of it actually
happening.
Scientists believe this unusual weather occurs when storms cause waterspouts* to form
over areas of water such as the sea, lakes or even small ponds. The air current picks up
the small marine life and carries it in the clouds. These big clouds can travel long distances
before releasing the animals all at once in the ‘animal rain’.
There are reports of this happening all over the world but in the small Honduran town of
Yoro it appears to be a regular occurrence. For the last 100 years every May to July, after
massive rain storms the people go out into the fields with wooden baskets to collect the fish
that fall from the skies. They even have an annual festival, which started in 1998, called
Lluvia de Peces to celebrate this ‘Rain of Fish’.
2 You will hear two people talking about what they did at the weekend. Listen and decide
if the sentences (1-5) are True (T) or False (F). Put a tick () in the correct box.
T F
1 Melinda went to the concert.
2 It was raining at the concert.
3 The weather in the town centre was nice.
4 The cinema is near the park.
5 Carlos went home after the cinema.
Writing
Read the rubric and write your email.
Your school’s English club is running a short story competition. The story must end with the sentence: It was the
most terrifying experience of my life. Write your story for the competition (60-100 words). Your story must
include:
bad weather a boat
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