Inter Progress test unit 8

Complete the email using reported speech and the words in brackets.

Hi Beth,

Gary phoned me yesterday. He said ¹____________________ (I had a great time) in London. 

Complete the email using reported speech and the words in brackets.

He asked me ²____________________ (are you and Beth going to Chloe’s party) on Saturday, and I said yes. 

Complete the email using reported speech and the words in brackets.

He said ³____________________ (I’ll definitely come)

Complete the email using reported speech and the words in brackets.

and he asked ⁴____________________ (where is she having it)?

Complete the email using reported speech and the words in brackets.

I told him she was having the party at a new pizza place in town, and I said ⁵____________________ (I’ll send you) a map. 

Complete the email using reported speech and the words in brackets.

Gary also asked ⁶____________________ (what time does it start). 

Complete the email using reported speech and the words in brackets.

I said ⁷____________________ (I don’t know)

Complete the email using reported speech and the words in brackets.

but I told him ⁸____________________ (I can ask Chloe) at school. 

Rewrite the sentences and questions. Pay attention to the pronouns and time expressions.

1. I’ll call you back this evening.

   Mr Harris told Lucy _______________________________________________ .

2 Did you buy your T-shirt at the concert yesterday?

I asked Simon _______________________________________________ 

3 We went to the cinema last Friday.

Macey and Dan said _______________________________________________ .

4 Are you going to watch the match tomorrow?

Jason asked us _______________________________________________ 

5 We’re really enjoying our holiday here.

The tourists told us _______________________________________________ 

6 I’m watching a documentary on TV now.

Dad told me _______________________________________________ 

Rewrite the sentence if thete is a mistake. If it is correct, write "Correct"

I asked Rachel if did she text Ben to tell him the news.

Rewrite the sentence if thete is a mistake. If it is correct, write "Correct"

Beth said that she would see me the later day.

Rewrite the sentence if thete is a mistake. If it is correct, write "Correct"

Sally said she could meet us later if we were free.

Rewrite the sentence if thete is a mistake. If it is correct, write "Correct"

Sally said she could meet us later if we were free.

Rewrite the sentence if thete is a mistake. If it is correct, write "Correct"

The teacher asked me why I am using my mobile phone in class.

Rewrite the sentence if thete is a mistake. If it is correct, write "Correct"

I asked Claire whether she would help me with my science project.

Read the mini-dialogues and choose the correct words.

Sinead             You said you’d phone John and apologise. Did you ¹run out of / get through to him?

Dan                  Well, I tried to phone him. But I ²got cut off / broke up.

Sinead             Why was that? Did he ³hang up / speak up on you?

Dan                  No, it was nothing like that. My phone just ⁴got through / ran out of credit.

Read the mini-dialogues and choose the correct words.

Sinead             You said you’d phone John and apologise. Did you ¹run out of / get through to him?

Dan                  Well, I tried to phone him. But I ²got cut off / broke up.

Sinead             Why was that? Did he ³hang up / speak up on you?

Dan                  No, it was nothing like that. My phone just ⁴got through / ran out of credit.

Read the mini-dialogues and choose the correct words.

Sinead             You said you’d phone John and apologise. Did you ¹run out of / get through to him?

Dan                  Well, I tried to phone him. But I ²got cut off / broke up.

Sinead             Why was that? Did he ³hang up / speak up on you?

Dan                  No, it was nothing like that. My phone just ⁴got through / ran out of credit.

Read the mini-dialogues and choose the correct words.

Sinead             You said you’d phone John and apologise. Did you ¹run out of / get through to him?

Dan                  Well, I tried to phone him. But I ²got cut off / broke up.

Sinead             Why was that? Did he ³hang up / speak up on you?

Dan                  No, it was nothing like that. My phone just ⁴got through / ran out of credit.

Read the mini-dialogues and choose the correct words.

Suzie               The neighbours complained because Helen played loud music when my parents were out. So now we’re both in trouble.

Callum            I ⁵advise / blame you to tell your parents that it wasn’t you.

Suzie               No, I can’t do that. But I’m really angry with Helen. I ⁶warned / suggested her against playing it loud.

Callum            And she ⁷insisted on / agreed to doing it?

Suzie               That’s right. I ⁸proposed / begged her to turn it down, but she didn’t. She’s really silly sometimes!

Read the mini-dialogues and choose the correct words.

Suzie               The neighbours complained because Helen played loud music when my parents were out. So now we’re both in trouble.

Callum            I ⁵advise / blame you to tell your parents that it wasn’t you.

Suzie               No, I can’t do that. But I’m really angry with Helen. I ⁶warned / suggested her against playing it loud.

Callum            And she ⁷insisted on / agreed to doing it?

Suzie               That’s right. I ⁸proposed / begged her to turn it down, but she didn’t. She’s really silly sometimes!

Read the mini-dialogues and choose the correct words.

Suzie               The neighbours complained because Helen played loud music when my parents were out. So now we’re both in trouble.

Callum            I ⁵advise / blame you to tell your parents that it wasn’t you.

Suzie               No, I can’t do that. But I’m really angry with Helen. I ⁶warned / suggested her against playing it loud.

Callum            And she ⁷insisted on / agreed to doing it?

Suzie               That’s right. I ⁸proposed / begged her to turn it down, but she didn’t. She’s really silly som

Read the mini-dialogues and choose the correct words.

Suzie               The neighbours complained because Helen played loud music when my parents were out. So now we’re both in trouble.

Callum            I ⁵advise / blame you to tell your parents that it wasn’t you.

Suzie               No, I can’t do that. But I’m really angry with Helen. I ⁶warned / suggested her against playing it loud.

Callum            And she ⁷insisted on / agreed to doing it?

Suzie               That’s right. I ⁸proposed / begged her to turn it down, but she didn’t. She’s really silly som

Match the quotes with the words below. There is one extra word or phrase.

biography     comedy     musical     novel    social networking sites     war film     zine

1. It was three hundred pages long, but I didn’t get bored because it was an amazing story. ________________

2. Do you follow many people on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter?                                                            ________________

3. It tells the story of some brave people who fought the Nazis, and the acting is great.          ________________

4. You can’t buy this magazine in the shops − it’s only on the internet.                                        ________________

5. My favourite song in the show was ‘Think of Me.’                                      ________________

6. Ben Stiller is a really funny actor, and the plot was crazy − we laughed a lot!                    ________________

Complete the sentences with the words below.

Complete the text with the words below.

can’t     clear     could     expression     hard     I’m     looks    only     say     sure

The photo shows three older women who are sitting on a bench in a park. I ¹____________ be sure, but I’d say that they are all friends. They are dressed in light coats and are wearing headscarves and there are lots of leaves around the bench so I’m pretty ²____________ that it’s a cool, autumn day. It ³____________ as if two of the women have moved closer together to look at something that is in the middle woman’s hand. It’s ⁴____________ to say, but I think it’s a mobile phone. It’s ⁵____________ that the two women find something really funny because they are both laughing. Not ⁶____________ that, one of the women is using a tissue to wipe a tear from her eye. It ⁷____________ be that they’ve just seen a funny photograph or read an amusing message. The third woman is sitting further along at the end of the bench and can’t see what they’re looking at. Judging by her ⁸____________, I’d ⁹____________ that she feels quite annoyed. ¹⁰____________ certain that the other women have completely forgotten about their friend and wouldn’t even realise if she got up and left them.

Reading

Read the text and complete gaps 1−5 with sentences. There is one extra sentence.

Lost in the translation

In 1977, American president Jimmy Carter visited Poland and tried to say something in Polish. But his translator hadn’t done a good job. ¹_____ It wasn’t a good start to his trip.

Translation is a difficult business. Nobody knows that better than 23-year-old Melike Kara, a translator in Istanbul. Melike is Turkish, but she grew up in Germany and speaks perfect German and English. ²_____ When I asked her what the most difficult thing to translate was, she said ‘poetry’. This is because you can’t translate a poem word-by-word. It has to sound nice in the other language, too. Melike has also translated film scripts. ‘Serious films are OK,’ she says ‘but comedies are really difficult. A joke in one language simply isn’t funny in another language. So you have to think of something else.’

Melike told me that there was no writing on the screen in Turkish cinemas. Instead, she said that actors recorded new Turkish dialogue for foreign films. The translated dialogue must be exactly as long as the original words − so the on-screen actors’ mouths don’t move when there’s no sound. This takes ages to write. ³_____ But when you do your job well, it really looks like the actors are speaking Turkish.’

Nowhere is translation more important than at the United Nations in New York. There, I met Masoud Abadi, who works as a translator in United Nations meetings. ‘It’s a very difficult job,’ Masoud told me, ‘because I have to listen to the conversation, and translate it at the same time. People don’t speak slowly, or stop and wait for you to translate. And you mustn’t miss what anyone says.’

Every day, people at the United Nations translate hundreds of important documents. These can be anything from business agreements to important political discussions. The translators use computer translation programs, but they also have to check everything themselves. ⁴_____ Masoud told me he could speak four: Arabic, French, English and Farsi.

Translating documents correctly can be very important. In 1840, the British and the Maori people signed a peace agreement in New Zealand. ⁵_____ Both sides were very happy when they signed the agreement. But today, the Maoris and the New Zealand government are still arguing about what it says!