OET b1 Unit 3 "Home"

• At last, the sun came out and the match (begin).

• I was excited because I (never, be) to London before.

• … your father (work) hard when he was at school?

• While Anna (dust) the furniture, she knocked over the vase.

• I don’t have ________ to stay.

• Family means ________ to me.

Grammar section

• I can’t find my handbag! ________ has stolen it!

• When I arrived home, there was ________ there.

• My father doesn’t like living in one place. That’s why he bought a _______.

• I’d like to buy a new ________ for the floor in my bedroom. It is too cold there.

• I am cold! Can you turn the ________ on?

• We’ve got a big garden ________ the house.

• Is my mobile phone on the ________ in the living room?

• Phone the _________ and discuss how much you’ll pay for the rent.

If you want to find           [somewhere, anywhere, nowhere] nice to spend a night or two, never choose the guest house I ended up in last month. When I saw it for the first time, I was completely confused. I even looked         [down on, into, up] the address in my tourist guide, wondering where the five stars came from.     [-, The, An] equipment was quite old-fashioned. The reception was empty and no one                [welcomed, welcome, didn't welcome] the guests. When the receptionist finally appeared, she seemed extremely           [annoying, annoyed, annoyance] by the guests. She kept chewing gum and replying with the phrase ‘I don’t know’, to almost every question. I have       [never, ever, yet] met such an            [unreliable, unselfish, impolite] person before. The doorperson looked like          [anyone, someone, everyone] who hadn’t slept       [from, since, for] ages and his           [condition, level, way] of English was so poor that you could hardly understand him. The rooms were small and the furniture old and uncomfortable. I’d rather not mention the bathrooms

Listening section

Listen to a conversation between a man and a woman and circle the correct answer.

The two speakers …

Listening section

Listen to a conversation between a man and a woman and circle the correct answer.

The town suggests …

Listening section

Listen to a conversation between a man and a woman and circle the correct answer.

The woman believes the new car park …

Listening section

Listen to a conversation between a man and a woman and circle the correct answer.

The man …

Reading section

Read the text about a strange accident, and decide if the statements are true or false.

WHO AM I?

On 3 July 2003, a thirty-five-year-old Englishman called Doug Bruce walked into a police station in Coney Island, New York, and told the police that he did not know his own name. He had woken up a few minutes earlier on an underground train, with a headache and a hurt hand and shoulder. At that moment, he had no idea where he was going, where he had been, or who he was.

Doug went to a police station because he had nowhere else to go. He was wearing a T-shirt, shorts and sandals and he had a backpack with a few things in it: a Spanish textbook, a bunch of keys and a map of New York. The police were puzzled. ‘We’d never had anything like this before,’ says Lieutenant Pete Pena. They sent Doug to Coney Island Hospital. On his name tag, the nurse wrote ‘Unknown white male’.

The doctors were surprised at how strong his memory loss was. Although Doug could form sentences, he remembered nothing about his own past and seemed to know little about the world. One specialist at the hospital, Dr Leonid Voroybyev, admitted that he’d only ever seen such a serious case ‘in the movies and in my textbooks’.

The hospital would not let Doug go until they knew who he was. In the end, hospital staff found a phone number inside the textbook in Doug’s backpack. It belonged to an ex-girlfriend’s mother, but when staff contacted her, she had no idea who he was. However, when Doug spoke to the daughter, Nadine, she recognised his voice at once. ‘Is that you, Doug?’ she asked. ‘I don’t know,’ came the reply. Nadine went to the hospital, told the doctors who Doug was, and took him home.

‘Home’ was a very attractive apartment in downtown Manhattan, which he shared with two dogs and three parrots. Doug discovered that he had previously lived in Paris, where he had made a lot of money working in the banking industry.

Now that Doug knew who he was, he had to deal with other challenges. He was worried about meeting his family and friends because he thought they would seem like strangers to him. However, when he met his sisters, they told him that he had changed. Before the accident, he had been very friendly and sociable, but rarely showed his feelings. According to them, he had become much more relaxed and wasn’t scared to let people know how he was feeling. And indeed, to Doug, it felt like his life had started all over again as he tasted strawberries, saw snow fall and watched fireworks explode for what seemed like the first time.

1.Doug Bruce was a rich American.

Reading section

Read the text above about a strange accident, and decide if the statements are true or false.

2.When Doug woke up, he felt pain in his arm.

Reading section

Read the text above about a strange accident, and decide if the statements are true or false.

3.The police had no experience with cases like this.

Reading section

Read the text above about a strange accident, and decide if the statements are true or false.

4.The doctors decided to study similar cases in textbooks.

Reading section

Read the text above about a strange accident, and decide if the statements are true or false.

5.Doug’s ex-girlfriend knew his address.

Reading section

Read the text above about a strange accident, and decide if the statements are true or false.

6.Doug earned his money abroad.

Reading section

Read the text above about a strange accident, and decide if the statements are true or false.

7.Doug’s family felt like strangers to him.

Reading section

Read the text above about a strange accident, and decide if the statements are true or false.

8.Dough was discovering common things once again, after the accident.