6 Underline the odd one out.

Example: armchair sink wall chest of drawers

1 shower bath washbasin armchair

2 sink chest of drawers bedside table coffee table

3 suburbs block of flats residential area city centre

4 kitchen garden terrace balcony

5 town country village city

6 cottage flat house garage

6

Vocabulary total

20

Pronunciation

7 Underline the stressed syllable.

Example: pupil

1 friendship

2 patio

3 literature

4 computer

5 entrance

5

8 Match the words with the same sound.

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Example: fish physics

1 boot ________

2 snake ________

3 up ________

4 university ________

5 zebra ________

5

Pronunciation total

10

Grammar, Vocabulary, and Pronunciation total

50

READING

Read the article and tick (_) A, B, or C.

How green is your house?

As the UK’s cities expand rapidly, problems are being caused for councils who have to meet the demand for housing. In addition to this, energy prices and pollution levels continue to increase.

A solution has been developed by the Peabody Trust who have worked with environmental experts to build the Beddington Zero Energy housing development (BedZED) in Sutton, England.

This unique development is an environmentally-friendly community of a hundred homes including gardens, offices, and childcare facilities with plenty of surrounding green areas. BedZED’s designers have created an attractive, affordable, urban village whose unique features benefit instead of harm the local community and environment. BedZED is a ‘zero energy’ development – no fossil fuels (coal and gas) are used and homes do not waste energy. Building materials are mostly natural, renewable or recycled. Houses face the south so that they get plenty of sunlight and their roofs are also fitted with solar panels, which change the sun’s energy into electricity. The windows consist of three layers of glass to stop heat from escaping. The homes are also fitted with the most modern energy-saving appliances. It is estimated that families’ electricity bills could be reduced by up to 60% whilst heating bills could be reduced by as much as 90%.

Developers hope to achieve a 50% reduction in fossil-fuel use by residents’ cars over the next decade by reducing the need to travel. Some residents will have the opportunity to work within walking distance of their homes. The Peabody Trust also aim to set up Internet shopping so that food can be delivered by local supermarkets.

As the need for environmentally-friendly, low-energy housing increases, BedZED may change from being a unique model, to a model for all future houses.

Example: Cities in the UK ________.

A are getting expensive      B are getting larger very quickly    C have too many politicians     

1 It’s difficult for councils to ________.

A build enough houses      B pay their energy bills      C design new houses     

2 A solution to the housing problem ________ found.

A has to be      B has been      C may have been     

3 The BedZED development consists of ________.

A 100 homes      B houses and public buildings      C houses, public buildings and parks     

4 ________ is used in the homes.

A Fossil fuel      B No energy      C Only the amount of energy that is needed     

5 Some of the materials in the buildings ________.

A are man-made      B can’t be re-used      C have been used before     

6 The houses have ________ to produce electricity.

A roofs      B a lot of sunlight      C solar panels     

7 The sun shines into the houses from the ________.

A west      B north      C south     

8 Estimates show that heating bills could be cut by ________.

A over 90%      B up to 90%      C 90%     

9 The developers hope that in the future inhabitants will ________.

A set up Internet shopping      B walk to work      C only use their cars to go to work     

10 Developers are hoping that BedZED will ________.

A remain unique      B change      C be a model for future housing developments     

Reading total

10

WRITING

Write a description of the school you go / went to. Include the following information: (140–180 words)

• a brief introduction: the kind of school, size, location, your age when you went there, number of pupils in each class

• homework, uniform, discipline, teachers

• subjects – best / worst

• your general opinion of the school – good / bad? Why?

Writing total

10

Reading and Writing total

20

LISTENING