Prepare 7 - reading, listening (7-8 unit)

Listen and match the two halves of the sentence.

Listen to the interview with a teenage blogger about her favourite place at home. Сhoose the correct answers.

1. People                    [in Wales, all over the world]read KJ Neal’s blog.

2. KJ is    [14, 13]years old.

3. Her              [writing room, bedroom] is her favourite place.

4. KJ’s favourite thing is her          [lamp, armchair]

Listen again. Are the sentences right (✓) or wrong (✗)?

1. KJ’s birthday is in January.       [right, wrong]

2. She’s from Scotland.       [right, wrong]

3. She doesn’t like her bedroom.       [right, wrong]

4. She doesn’t share the writing room with anyone.       [right, wrong]

5. There are some curtains in the writing room.       [right, wrong]

6. She sometimes writes in her bedroom.       [right, wrong]

Read the text below.

Study skills tips

Many studies about language learning ask the question: What makes a good language learner? There are some things that good language learners do and some things they don’t do. Here are some of the most useful suggestions from studies.

• Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. People often get things wrong. Good language learners notice their mistakes and learn from them.

• Do group activities. People use language to communicate with other people. A good language learner always looks for opportunities to talk with other students.

• Make notes during every class. Notes help you to remember new language. Look at your notes when you do your homework.

• Use a dictionary. Good language learners often use dictionaries to check the meaning of words they don’t know. They also make their own vocabulary lists.

• Think in the language you’re learning outside the classroom. When you’re shopping or walking down the street, remember useful words and phrases. Sometimes, when you’re at home, say new words to practise your pronunciation.

• Do extra practice. Test and improve your language, reading and listening skills with selfstudy material. You can find a lot of this online.

• Imagine yourself speaking in the language. Many good language learners can see and hear themselves speaking in the language. This helps their motivation.

• Enjoy the process. Good language learners have fun with the language. Watch a TV series or film, listen to songs, play video games or read a book. It’s never too late to become a good language learner.

According to the text, are the sentences true or false?

1. Good language learners don’t make mistakes.       [true, false]

2. It’s a good idea to talk with other students.       [true, false]

3. Take notes only before an exam.       [true, false]

4. Good language learners write down the words and expressions they learn.       [true, false]

5. Think of language you know when you are outside the classroom.       [true, false]

For each question, choose the correct answer.

A new report about the future shows us how our work, home and free time might be in a hundred years’ time. In the report, a (1)       [class, group, kind]of scientists and designers give their ideas about the future.

They say many buildings will be much higher than the tallest buildings now. We’ll also build homes with lots of floors under the ground. But we won’t only build on (2)       [place, land, aread]. There may be homes, and (3)         [still, really, perhaps]whole cities, under the sea, too.

Inside homes, we can already turn on things like the (4)         [heating, drawer, roof]with our phones. In the future, we’ll do more from our phones. And the walls inside our homes will move so we can change the shape of rooms (5)           [carefully, happily, easily]. Nobody will paint their homes. Every home will have special (6)        [stairs, lights, seats]to give the walls different colours and pictures at different times.

One of the most amazing ideas in the report is that we will take our own homes with us on holiday! People will have special holiday homes, full of all their things, and carry them to their holiday place. We will use large drones (objects that fly without a pilot) to do this. This may mean that people won’t use hotels in the future. And when we are bored of that, instead of going away to the beach or another country, we will leave the world and fly to the moon or go to another planet.

Read the text again. Then select two correct answers for each question.

Which questions about the report does the first paragraph answer?

Read the text again. Then select two correct answers for each question.

What ideas about the future are in the rest of the text?

Read the text quickly and choose the best title.