Reading__ / 10

Future Life

Hi. I’m Gemma. I’m from England. My blog is all about my predictions for the future. Here are some of the things I think will happen in the next ten years:

  • I think more people will probably get married and also have children earlier. When I was born my mum was 39. Now I’m now 14 and she is 53. That’s pretty old! My generation will want to be young parents. They won’t want to be old when their kids get married and have kids.
  • Both of my parents went to university and then travelled around the world. I think young people will travel less. It will be more expensive to fly and we’ll want to save the environment. Also, it will be more dangerous to travel abroad. All of us are scared of terrorism.

In next week’s blog, I’m going to write about what mylife will be like in 10 years’ time.

See you then!

1 Read the text. Underline your answers.

1 Where is Gemma from? England/France

2 How old is Gemma? 14/16

3 What type of text is this? A magazine article/ A blog

4 Gemma makes predictions for the next 10/20 years.

5 Which topic does Gemma describe? Having children/Getting a job

6 Which topic doesn’t she mention? Technology/Terrorism

2 Read again. True or false? Correct the false sentences.

1 Gemma thinks more people will get married.

True

2 Gemma thinks more people will have children earlier.

______

3 Her mother is 39.

______

4 Her parents went travelling after studying.

______

5 Gemma thinks travelling will become less popular.

______

6 She thinks terrorism won’t stop some young people travelling.

______

Vocabulary___ / 20

1Complete the sentences with the words in the box.

speed height temperature distance weight length

1 The distance from my house to school is one kilometre.

2 The ______of the car is 2metres.

3 Its top ______is 150 kilometres per hour.

4 The highest______in London last year was 39ºC.

5 What’s your ______?I’m 1 metre21 centimetres.

6 Can I just check the ______of your suitcase please?

2Match the sentence halves.

1 When I’m older I want to be d

2 I don’t want to live__

3 The least important thing for me is to have__

4 My parents got__

5 When I leave__

6 I’d like to do__

a money.

buniversity I’m going to travel around South America.

cmarried when they were twenty-one.

d famous like Angelina Jolie.

evoluntary work in my holidays.

f abroad.

Grammar___ / 30

1 Complete the text about future predictions with the words in the box.

in the next fifteen years in forty years’ time in five years’ time is going to

ten years from now ’ll probably

Next year, in 2012, my sister is going tohavea baby. I think that______,in 2016, I’ll probably be at university and livewith friends.______, in2021, I ______travel theworld and ______by 2026,I’m going to be a famous writer. Who knows, ______I’ll probably be agrandparent and Nobel Prize winner!

2 Make sentences with going to.

1 On Tuesday / I / fly / a plane

I’m going to fly a plane on Tuesday .

2 my brother / do / a sponsored walk / this weekend

______

3 we / not study / French / next year

______

4 I / not be / dentist

______

5 I / grow my hair / long

______

6 you / travel to / Australia / with a friend ?

______

3 Order the words to make questions.

1 exams / this / you / year / will / year / take?

Will you take exams this year?

2 will / for / Jemima / year / football / the / team / play / next / school ?

______

3 what / tomorrow / Joseph / to / will / when / decide / do ?

______

4 years’ / old / time / how / be / ten / dog / will / in / your ?

______

5 February / travel / in / where / will / Fred / to ?

______

6 like / will / Elsa / know / what / looks / I / how / know ?

______

4 Match the answers to the questions in Exercise 3.

a He’ll be fifteen. __

b Yes, I will.1

c She’ll be waiting under the clock with a newspaper. __

d I think he’ll go to Paris. __

e No, she won’t. __

f He’ll make a decision after lunch. __

5 Identify the sentences: fact (F) or prediction (P). There are three facts and three predictions.

1 Barrack Obama will be US president for a maximum of eight years. F

2 Real Madrid will play in the Bernabeau stadium this year. __

3 Mobile phones probably won’t replace computers in the next three years. __

4 In twenty year’s time, students probably won’t have lessons in classrooms. __

5 In the next fifteen years, Chinese probably won’t be the most popular language in the world. __

6 Next year is a leap year so it will have 366 days.__

6 Complete the sentences with the correctform of going to, will or will probably.

1 I ’m going togo to the concert on Friday. Ibought my ticket yesterday.

2 Tobey Maguire ______becomea professional tennis player. He prefers

acting.

3 The flight to Miami______takeeight hours. The pilot just said so.

4 Next year, Grace ______go toUniversity in Oxford.

5 I ______fail my exam!

6 Prince Charles ______have anymore children. He’s too old.

Listening___ / 10

1 Listen to the three dialogues. Answer the questions.

Dialogue 1

1 What did Jack lose? Alaptop.

2 Where does he think he lost it? In the______

Dialogue 2

3 What type of room are they talking about? A b______or lounge

4 Which object in the room does he ask about? The w______

Dialogue 3

5 What object are the boy and girl talking about? S______

6 What is she going to put in hers?P______

2 Listen again. Complete with the correct answers.

8 kilos 150cm wide 30 cm long 25m2 big heavy

1 ‘What size is your laptop? It’s about 30 cm long by 20 cm.’

Dialogue 2:

2 ‘It looks big. How ______is it?’

3 ‘It’s about______.’

4 ‘How tall are they? They are 2m 25 cm tall, and______.’

Dialogue 3:

5 ‘How ______are yours?’

6 ‘Both of mine are______.’

Writing__ / 20

1 Complete the text with some of, all of, or both of.

Jack and Daisy are twins and live near Manchester, England. (1) Both of them are 14 years old. They go to my school, and they are best friends with my brother, Brian, and my sister, Chloe. We’re triplets!(2)______us (Jack, Daisy, Brian, Chloe and I) are in the same class at school. It’s great. My class are very friendly. At the weekend (3) ______us (Jack, Brian, Pete and I) play football for CongletonTown the under-16 team. The football matches are good fun, but (4)______them are really hard. Our best players are Jack and Pete. (5) ______them scored a lot of goals last year: Jack 21 goals, and Pete 19 goals). (6) ______the team (Sam and Mark) are also good at running.

2 Write about you and your friends. Answer the questions.

1What your friends’ names?

My friends’ names are ...

2What do you do at the weekends?

______

3What sports do you do with your friends?

______

4What are you going to do next weekend?

______

5What do you think your friends will be when they’re older?

______

6What are your friends going to do when they leave school?

______

Total (including Speaking)__ / 100

Speaking___ / 10
Student A
You are a police officer. Student B has lost something. Ask him/her about the measurements, make, model and colour of these lost items
POLICE REPORT
Name:
Items lost:
Description:
Special
characteristics:
You can use these expressions:
What make/model...? What colour...? How big...?
I lost my... It’s... It’s got...
A Hello. What’s your name?
B I’m Nick Mullins.
Speaking___ / 10
Student B
You are Nick Mullins. You have lost a few things and you go to the police station to report the loss. Describe the things you lost.
  • A black Nokia 5800 mobile phone (10cm long x 4.5 cmwide)
  • A red Nike sports bag (3 kilos; 60 cmlong x 30cm wide)
You can use these expressions:
What make/model...? What colour...? How big...?
I lost my... It’s... It’s got...
A Hello. What’s your name?
B I’m Nick Mullins.
Now change roles. Student A’s friend is coming to visit. You’re going to meet him/her at the station. Ask Student B to describe his/her friend.

English In motion Tests 2 – Editable

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