Elementary Achievement test 2 (Units 4–6)

Listening Grammar
1 Recording 3 Listen to the conversation in a 3 Write the sentences in the correct order.
restaurant. Match the people with the food.
1 many / bedrooms / are / how / there?
You don’t need all the food items.
How many bedrooms are there?
1 Charlie a 2 aren’t / after / any / there / 11p.m. / buses
2 Sam
3 Mum
3 can / get / a / from / book / the / I / library?
4 Rosie
5 Tony
6 Carol 4 I / got / pineapples / any / haven’t

a) Roast beef and fries 5 often / do /eat / you / vegetables?

b) Vegetable soup and cheese salad
c) Chicken soup, pasta and prawns 6 is / sugar / this / there / in / tea?
d) Pasta with grilled vegetables
e) Green beans and carrots
f) Roast beef, potatoes and vegetables 7 drinks / of / a / she / at / coffee / lot / work
g) Grilled chicken, vegetables and rice
h) Fish and fries with salad 8 your / who / favourite / was / teacher?
i) Pasta and salad
9 weren’t / home / last / they / at / night
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10 the / didn’t / film / we / enjoy
2 Recording 4 Listen and write true (T) or
false (F). 11 did / live / the / when / you / in / UK?
1 Markus was born in Australia. F
2 He was born on August 13th 1983.
3 There are three children in his family. 10
4 His father was an electrician.
5 He loved maths and music. 4 Write the correct form of the word in brackets.
6 He started playing the guitar when
he was eleven. I 1 got (get) my first job in 2012 because I
7 He comes from a musical family.
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(want) to move out of my parents’ house
8 He wanted to become famous. and 3 (rent) a flat. First, I 4 (see)
9 He had lessons every evening. lots of flats. Some of them were awful. There
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10 Markus and his friends played in a band. (not/be) enough cupboards or shelves,
11 Their band won the school competition. and the rooms 6 (be) too small. The
bathrooms were old and they didn’t have a shower.
10 Then I 7 (find) the perfect flat. It
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(have) a living room, a bedroom, a
kitchen with a table and a bathroom with a shower.
There 9 (be) lots of cupboards and shelves,
and a big wardrobe in the bedroom. The flat
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(not/have) a garden but it had a lovely
balcony. I 11 (grow) plants there and it was
a great place to relax in the summer.

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 Elementary Achievement test 2 (Units 4–6)

Vocabulary Function
5 Underline the correct alternative. 8 Tick two polite options for each question.
1 I found my mobile phone. It was in/on the shelf 1 a) What do you want?
next to/on my bed. b) Are you ready to order? ✓
2 There’s a lovely Thai restaurant between/behind c) Can I help you? ✓
the theatre. 2 a) Have you got it in small, please?
3 The internet café is on the left/between the bank b) Could I have a medium?
and the post office. c) Give me a large.
4 Did you buy a bottle/jar of strawberry jam for me? 3 a) Where’s the menu?
5 Can I have a packet/glass of milk, please? b) Could you bring us a menu?
6 We saw James five minutes last/ago. c) Can I see the menu, please?
7 Where did you go in/on June? 4 a) Would you like something to drink?
b) Do you want coffee?
7 c) What would you like to drink?
5 a) I want some red wine.
b) I’d like a hamburger and fries.
6 Are the nouns countable or uncountable?
c) Can I have some vegetables?
Underline the wrong word in each group.
6 a) I’m not sure.
1 apple orange banana garlic b) Give me time to think.
2 tomato salmon milk cheese c) I need to think about it.
3 egg pepper carrot butter 5
4 milk fruit juice banana water
5 potato grape broccoli pear 9 Write the past simple questions.
6 meat fish fruit vegetable
1 How / your holiday?
7 pear prawn salmon strawberry
How was your holiday?
2 your wife / go / with you?
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3 When / you / get back?

7 Complete the sentences with the words in
the box. 4 That / sound / awful!
borrow do go got 5 Who / you / go with?
play start stay working
6 Where / you / go?
1 Do you want to play tomorrow?
2 How many books can I from the library?
3 They to the gym every evening. 5
4 Joel and Sue always the housework on
Saturday. market forest 10 Now match questions 1–6 from Exercise 9
5 I’m too tired. I’m going to at home with gaps a–f.
tonight.
6 Does Jo really enjoy as a dentist? A: Hi Tony! How are you?
7 When do you your new job? B: Fine thanks. a 1
8 Tim and Victoria married last February. A: It was good – but we had a few problems.
B: Why? What happened?
7 A: Well, the hotel was awful, the plane was late . . .
B: b
A: Yeah, but the beach was amazing.
B: c
A: Aruba. Lovely food, lovely people . . .
B: d
A: A couple of friends from work.
B: e
A: Yes, she loved it.
B: f
A: Last night!
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 Elementary Achievement test 2 (Units 4–6)

Reading
12 Read the article again. Underline True (T) or
11 Read the article and complete the gaps with False (F).
headings a–f.
1 Jamie first learnt to cook at school. T/F
1 d 2 He worked in France after working
Jamie Oliver is a well-known British chef. He was in London. T/F
born on 27th May 1975 in Essex. His parents ran a 3 He started his own business in 2002. T/F
pub restaurant and taught him how to cook when he 4 Fifteen was a complete failure. T/F
was young. 5 Jamie will open more Italian restaurants. T/F
6 He called his first collection of recipes
2 The Naked Chef. T/F
He went to college to study cooking when he was 16
and then worked in France. Next, he worked in 5
London at Carluccio’s and The River Café.
3 13 Read the text again and underline the correct
At the end of 2002, he opened his first restaurant, answer, a), b) or c).
‘Fifteen’, in London. His idea was to help young
people without jobs to learn how to cook with 1 Jamie Oliver’s parents were
professionals and find work. It was a big success a) chefs.
and now there are ‘Fifteen’ restaurants all around b) teachers.
the world. c) the owners of a pub.
2 When he left college, Jamie went to
4 a) Essex.
In 2008, Jamie then started another restaurant b) London.
business – this time with Italian food. The original c) France.
‘Jamie’s Italian’ opened in Oxford and there are 3 The ‘Fifteen’ restaurants
now around 40 of them in the UK in cities such as a) give free food to young people.
Exeter and Brighton. There are ‘Jamie’s Italian’ b) help professional chefs find work.
restaurants in Australia, Singapore, Brazil and c) teach young people to be cooks.
Russia too, with plans for more soon. 4 Jamie started his first Italian restaurant in
5 a) Oxford.
Jamie has also published lots of cookery books since b) Brighton.
his first, The Naked Chef, in 1999. His latest titles c) Italy.
include Jamie’s Comfort Food in 2014 and The 5 There are around 40 Jamie’s Italian restaurants in
Essential Jamie in 2015. a) Exeter and Brighton.
b) the UK.
6 c) the world.
He has a lot more ideas for the future! One of them 6 Jamie’s Comfort Food is
is to develop his YouTube channel: Food Tube. At a) one of Jamie’s restaurants.
present it is the third largest food channel on b) a recent cookery book by Jamie.
YouTube but he’d like this to change. Why not have c) Jamie’s first cookery book.
a look at it yourself?
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a) Recipes to try at home
b) Becoming a chef
c) A small idea grows big
d) First beginnings
e) More to come
f) Training others

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 Elementary Achievement test 2 (Units 4–6)

Writing
14 Rewrite the recipe with capital letters and
commas.
it’s very easy to make a greek salad. you need
lettuce tomatoes black olives an onion some feta
cheese and a big dish. wash and cut up the lettuce
and tomatoes. then put all the ingredients into the
dish and add some olive oil. don’t add salt because
feta cheese is very salty. stir and serve with fresh
bread. delicious!

It’s very easy to make a Greek salad.

15 Write two paragraphs about a person you

admire. Use the prompts below. Write 50–75
words.

His / her childhood, family, job, personality

Why this person is someone you admire

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