Advanced Speaking – Nicola Sarjeant

Advanced Speaking Midterm Listening Test

Format:

1.  Listening - fill-in-the-blanks. This will be one of the listenings from the book that you have already listened to.

2.  Listening – comprehension – T/F, multiple choice or short answer questions. This will be a new listening that you haven’t heard before.

** you will hear both listenings twice

3.  Vocabulary – fill-in-the-blanks. This will be vocabulary or language bank phrases that you’ve learned in class or from the workbook - see below. (You will not be given a vocabulary list – it is from your memory!!)

Advertising (Unit 1)

a billboard
celebrity endorsement
a classified ad
junk mail
a movie trailer
a pop-up ad
product placement
spam
sponsorship / to ditch s.o./s.th.
to shy away from
to dump s.th./s.o.
to overshadow
to can s.o.
sticky
to come under fire
to tarnish
surefire / idioms (workbook)
to give s.o. a blank cheque
to jump on the bandwagon
to cost an arm and a leg
to not be seen dead (doing s.th.)
to work round the clock

Success & the American Dream (Unit 3)

floundering
meteoric
charismatic
token
grim / idioms (workbook)
a control freak
movers and shakers
a shark / a stick-in-the-mud
down-to-earth
a workaholic

Bullying (Unit 4)

notorious
a tormentor
a physique
to push s.o. around
to contemplate / to cite
to push (drugs)
anecdotal
sketchy / idioms (workbook)
to play into s.o.’s hands
to cross swords with s.o.
to flog a dead horse
to be driven over the edge
to go to great lengths (to do s.th.)

Fashion (Unit 5)

dull
exotic
exquisite
flashy
fresh
functional
impractical
inferior
inspiring / spectacular
tasteful
tasteless
trendy
materialistic
retro
vintage
authentic / urban
minimalist
suave
a sarong
telltale
a fragrance
a grooming product
off the mark / idioms (workbook)
an empty existence
to keep up with the Joneses
to pay a pretty penny
a trendsetter
upmarket

Economics (Unit 7)

to go/be up
to increase
to expand
to grow
to decline
to decrease
to drop / a commodity
a subsidy
to go/be down
to level off
to fluctuate
GDP / a bubble
a recession
a concession
across the board
a watchdog
capitalism / idioms (workbook)
to fall off the back of a truck/lorry
to be a driving force behind s.th.
cracks in a relationship
to be caught in the poverty trap
to be in the red
to have a windfall

Language Banks:

1. Contradicting
3. Justifying an Argument
5. Expressing Ideas Tentatively / 5. Vivid Adjectives
7. Defending a Point of View
7. Intransitive Verbs