Next move 2 Skills test 1 listening and Reading

Listening Track 1

1 Listen to Lisa and Eric. Circle true (T), false (F) or don’t know (DK).

1 Lisa and Eric came to the sports centre together.

2 Lisa has got a little sister.

3 Lisa’s sister is very good at archery.

4 Eric’s brother is in the school football team.

5 Eric’s favourite sport is horse-riding.

6 Lisa doesn’t often go ice-skating

Listen to TRACK 1 again and complete the sentences with one or two words.

1 Lisa’s sister does archery every ________________.

Listen to TRACK 1 again and complete the sentences with one or two words.

2 Eric is waiting for his ______________________.

Listen to TRACK 1 again and complete the sentences with one or two words.

3 He likes watching ______________ and __________ .

Listen to TRACK 1 again and complete the sentences with one or two words.

4 He wants to go ice-skating with Lisa on __________________ .

1 Read the text quickly. Then choose the correct answer.

What kind of text is it?

My favourite film is Shakespeare in Love. It isn’t a new film, but my parents have the DVD, and I love watching it. Tom Stoppard, a famous British writer, wrote it together with an American, Marc Norman. There are also some famous actors in the film: Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Colin Firth and Judi Dench.

Shakespeare in Love isn’t really a historical film. It’s a love story. In the film, Shakespeare is a young man. He is poor, but he wants to make money and he is trying to write a play: Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter. He finds a fantastic actor, Thomas Kent, for the part of Romeo, but Thomas isn’t the actor’s real name. In fact, Thomas isn’t a man. ‘He’ is a girl from a rich family, and ‘his’ real name is Viola de Lesseps. In Shakespeare’s time, there were no women actors. Young men played all the girls and women, so Viola doesn’t want people to know she is a girl. But Shakespeare learns Viola’s secret, and they fall in love.

In my opinion, Shakespeare in Love is a brilliant film. It won three Oscars in 1999. It’s sometimes very funny, but it’s also sad, because Shakespeare and Viola can’t get married. At the end of the film, Viola marries a rich man and she goes with him to America. But Shakespeare never forgets her, and he writes a play about a woman called Viola: Twelfth Night.

2 Read the text again. Match the sentence beginnings with the endings .

Shakespeare in Love

My favourite film is Shakespeare in Love. It isn’t a new film, but my parents have the DVD, and I love watching it. Tom Stoppard, a famous British writer, wrote it together with an American, Marc Norman. There are also some famous actors in the film: Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Colin Firth and Judi Dench.

Shakespeare in Love isn’t really a historical film. It’s a love story. In the film, Shakespeare is a young man. He is poor, but he wants to make money and he is trying to write a play: Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter. He finds a fantastic actor, Thomas Kent, for the part of Romeo, but Thomas isn’t the actor’s real name. In fact, Thomas isn’t a man. ‘He’ is a girl from a rich family, and ‘his’ real name is Viola de Lesseps. In Shakespeare’s time, there were no women actors. Young men played all the girls and women, so Viola doesn’t want people to know she is a girl. But Shakespeare learns Viola’s secret, and they fall in love.

In my opinion, Shakespeare in Love is a brilliant film. It won three Oscars in 1999. It’s sometimes very funny, but it’s also sad, because Shakespeare and Viola can’t get married. At the end of the film, Viola marries a rich man and she goes with him to America. But Shakespeare never forgets her, and he writes a play about a woman called Viola: Twelfth Night.

Read the text again. Complete the summary with one word in each gap.

Shakespeare in Love

My favourite film is Shakespeare in Love. It isn’t a new film, but my parents have the DVD, and I love watching it. Tom Stoppard, a famous British writer, wrote it together with an American, Marc Norman. There are also some famous actors in the film: Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Colin Firth and Judi Dench.

Shakespeare in Love isn’t really a historical film. It’s a love story. In the film, Shakespeare is a young man. He is poor, but he wants to make money and he is trying to write a play: Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter. He finds a fantastic actor, Thomas Kent, for the part of Romeo, but Thomas isn’t the actor’s real name. In fact, Thomas isn’t a man. ‘He’ is a girl from a rich family, and ‘his’ real name is Viola de Lesseps. In Shakespeare’s time, there were no women actors. Young men played all the girls and women, so Viola doesn’t want people to know she is a girl. But Shakespeare learns Viola’s secret, and they fall in love.

In my opinion, Shakespeare in Love is a brilliant film. It won three Oscars in 1999. It’s sometimes very funny, but it’s also sad, because Shakespeare and Viola can’t get married. At the end of the film, Viola marries a rich man and she goes with him to America. But Shakespeare never forgets her, and he writes a play about a woman called Viola: Twelfth Night.

Read the text again. Complete the summary with one word in each gap.

Tom Stoppard, a British writer, and Marc Norman, an ¹          writer, wrote Shakespeare in Love. The film won three Oscars in ²      . It is a love story. In the film, Shakespeare is a young man, but ³      , and he is writing a play: Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter. One of the ⁴        in this play is Thomas Kent, but Thomas isn’t a ⁵     . Thomas’s real name is Viola de Lesseps, a girl from a ⁶      family. Viola doesn’t want people to know she is a girl because in Shakespeare’s time, there were no ⁷       actors. One day Shakespeare learns Viola’s secret, and he falls in love with her. They can’t get married, so the film is ⁸     . At the end of the film, Viola marries another man and she goes to ⁹         with him.