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Keynote Intermediate End-of-course Test A

Keynote Intermediate

Paper 1: Reading and Writing

End-of-course Test A

Paper 1: Reading and Writing Time:

1 hour 30 minutes

Name:

________________________________________

Total score:

_____ / 60

INSTRUCTIONS Do not open this question paper until you are told to do so. Read the instructions for each part of the paper carefully. Answer all the questions in Reading Parts 1 – 5 and Writing Parts 1 and 2. Answer only one question from Writing Part 3.

MARKING INFORMATION This paper carries a total of 60 marks. READING Questions 1 – 35 carry one mark. WRITING Questions 1 – 5 carry one mark. Part 2 (Question 6) carries five marks. Part 3 (Question 7 or 8) carries fifteen marks.

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Keynote Intermediate End-of-course Test A

Paper 1: Reading and Writing

Reading Part 1 Questions 1 – 5 Look at the text in each question. What does it say? Circle the correct answer A, B or C. Example: 0 A 0

1

If you go to the cinema more than four times a month, our Cinemagoers Card is for you! Six films a month for the price of five! Ask at the ticket office.

A

The cinema is cheaper if you go often.

B

It is cheaper to see six films than four.

C

It is better to go to the cinema five times than four.

Dear Guest, Please help us to look after the environment!

A

You shouldn’t leave the towels in the bath.

B

You can’t have clean towels before you leave.

C

You must put towels in the bath when you want clean ones.

Ladies golf, sports and leisure wear

A

You will pay the same for two things as for three.

When you buy two items, another one free!

B

You must choose cheap things if you want something free.

C

You will pay half price when you buy two things for golf.

If you leave the towels inside the bathtub, it means ‘To be changed’.

2

(Offer applies to the cheapest item.)

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Missing: small, family cat.

A

Tortoiseshell (black/white/ orange).

If you find a small family of cats, you should phone 7744-9090.

B

If you find a cat called Tortoiseshell, you should phone its family.

C

If you find a black, white and orange cat, it might be Patty.

A

You won’t be able to go to the dinner if you don’t choose a date.

B

There won’t be a dinner if you don’t choose a date before Friday evening.

C

You won’t be able to choose a date for dinner if you wait too long.

A

Nell will meet Justin at the airport.

B

Nell will meet Justin at the hotel.

C

Nell can’t get to the airport.

Answers to name of Patty. Information? Call 7744-9090

4

Office Christmas Dinner Please indicate your preferences by ticking the dates below before Friday 5pm. If you don’t do this, we will choose a date for the dinner based on table availability.

5

Marks (out of 5): _____

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Part 2 Questions 6 – 10 The people below are all looking for a weekend activity. On the next page there are descriptions of eight activities. Decide which activity (A – H) would be the most suitable for the following people. For questions 6 – 10, write the correct letter (A – H).

6 …….

7 …….

8 …….

9 …….

10 …….

Francesca Francesca loves new experiences and she’s a good team-player. She can drive and she can swim, although she doesn’t like swimming in the sea. She loves outdoors sports and enjoys camping or staying in small hotels.

Gina Gina’s sociable and friendly, but she also likes being alone. She can swim well, and really likes swimming in the sea, but she isn’t keen on cooking. She loves culture, but she’s looking for new experiences and wants to learn a new sport. Oliver Oliver’s quite spontaneous and romantic. He prefers culture to sport and he’d like to create happy memories with his partner. He enjoys walking, but can’t drive. Although he’s quite sociable, he’d like to be alone with his partner most of the time. Isha Isha’s adventurous, but not very sporty. She enjoys photography, music and being outdoors. She has visited parts of Italy and Paris before and would like to go abroad again.

Marc Marc’s organized and hard-working. He’s always enthusiastic about everything he does. He’s a chef, so he wants a change and doesn’t want to cook this weekend. He loves sport, but he can’t swim.

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A three-day weekend A

Poole Kite-Surfing Club is organizing a weekend on the water for beginners. You’ll spend the weekend riding the waves and flying above your friends on the beach as you learn this fantastic sport. And don’t worry, you won’t be too tired on Monday – we’ll spend the afternoons fishing, then, back at the campsite where we sleep and eat together. We’ll cook what we catch!

B

This wonderful weekend package includes train tickets for two from London to Paris, two tickets to the most important museums and galleries, a trip on the river by night (dinner and dancing included) on Saturday and two half-day walks around this beautiful city with a guide. Hotel accommodation includes breakfast. Champagne dinner for two on Friday optional.

C

Riding a Vespa through the beautiful mountains of central Spain is the perfect adventure! You’ll be met at the airport on Thursday evening and taken to your first hotel. On Friday, you’ll meet your group and your Vespa scooters. After a one-hour class, we’ll give you your route maps and the weekend is yours. We’ve booked the best small hotels, and you can spend Sunday in Madrid.

D

Drive down to beautiful Devon and learn how to surf! Our school is in Croyde with its small shops, wonderful cafés and incredible beach, and you’ll stay at the Saunton Sands Hotel just five minutes away. After your four surfing classes, you can relax on the beach or at the hotel’s spa. Evening entertainment includes the piano bar or outdoor cinema evenings.

E

Hire and Drive Italy! How about a weekend in two of the most beautiful cities in Italy? You drive, we do the rest. You can pick up your hire car at Pisa airport and take your time driving to Florence, where your hotel awaits. Your second night is spent in Siena, where you will eat in one of Italy’s finest restaurants and take in the sights and sounds. Enjoy!

F

Do you enjoy adventure? Sleeping under the stars, listening to the river nearby, sharing cooking and food with new friends, singing songs beside the fire? And would you like to learn a new sport with a great group of people? Try our kayaking weekend! Learn to kayak individually and in groups – and learn to survive when it goes wrong! Must be able to swim.

G

This relaxing weekend combines our Jacuzzi, sauna, and yoga or Pilates with a two-day course on healthy cooking. At our hotel in central Scotland, you can learn how to cook amazing meals for vegetarians or people with food problems. We use completely eco-friendly, ethical ingredients. A one-hour drive from the nearest cities, this is the most relaxing option for your perfect weekend.

H

This weekend cycling takes place in the south west of England (beaches are optional!). The complete Tarka Trail is an ambitious 290km long, but don’t worry, starting in Barnstaple, you can choose to either cycle the 48km section without cars over three days, and return to Barnstaple in our jeep, or cycle the 96km there and back. Accommodation: eco-friendly camping (includes amazing dinner!) – night 1; the Grand Imperial Hotel – night 2.

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Part 3 Questions 11 – 20 Look at the sentences below about a famous actor’s work in advertising. Read the text on the next page to decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect. If it is correct, write A. If it is not correct, write B. 11

At first, the Clooney advertisements didn’t help the coffee company make money.

…….

You could find the ‘Clooney coffee’ in some very good restaurants.

…….

The coffee company decided that Clooney was the most elegant actor to sell their products.

…….

The more recent advertisements all have famous American actors with Clooney.

…….

Most famous actors don’t like Americans seeing their advertisements.

…….

16

The Americans didn’t see the advertisement with Danny de Vito.

…….

17

Some people were angry when Clooney decided to make the coffee advertisements.

…….

Clooney has worked with the coffee company to make people’s lives better.

…….

If you can buy this coffee in your country, you can give the shop your capsules to recycle.

…….

Some people wear recycled capsules.

…….

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15

18

19

20

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Clooney: The Face of Coffee – Things you (possibly) didn’t know Many people around the world are familiar with the television advertisements for coffee starring George Clooney, but there are five things, both about the advertisements themselves and about the coffee, that perhaps you didn’t know. The Clooney Coffee Effect Mr Clooney made his first advertisement for coffee in 2006. Between 2007 and late 2008 – a year of recession in most sectors - the sales of that coffee rose 30%. Perhaps it isn’t the world’s best coffee, but even restaurants with top chefs and Michelin stars were serving it! Choosing Clooney Have you ever asked yourself why the company chose Clooney to represent their coffee? The simple answer is that the company didn’t choose him. They asked their clients who the best person was to be ‘the face’ of their product, a product that was elegant, seductive and – originally – exclusive. The name that received the most votes was Clooney’s. Clooney and Friends Go Home Originally, Clooney was the only famous actor in the advertisements – do you remember him giving his coffee to a series of attractive women? Or picking up the wrong bag at the airport? More recently, other famous actors have been in the advertisements with him, actors such as Matt Damon or French star Jean Dujardin, and normally they are the ones who speak; typically, Clooney’s voice is only heard at the end of the advertisements. Many famous actors do not allow their advertisements to be shown in the USA because they want to protect their image, and most of the coffee advertisements have not been shown there. However, in 2015 the Clooney adverts were seen for the first time by the Americans. His good friend Danny de Vito was the actor who worked with him in the first US advert. Clooney Coffee Activism Coffee in capsules is not popular with ecologists, as the capsules are normally made of plastic, so some people think it is strange that Clooney, who is a famous activist as well as an actor, makes these adverts. However, the company that makes the ‘Clooney coffee’ uses a large percentage of sustainable coffee and pays the farmers an ethical amount. Recently, with Clooney, they have helped farmers in South Sudan to rebuild their coffee farms as part of their programme to help coffee farmers improve their lives. Clooney Capsules The ‘Clooney capsules’ are made of metal, not plastic. In some countries, the coffee company operates a collection and recycling system for the capsules in their shops, but in others, you have to clean the used capsules and put them in the recycling bins for metal. Some people even recycle them by using them to make earrings! It is much easier to recycle metal than plastic. Does Clooney recycle his capsules? We’d like to think he does. © National Geographic Learning 2016

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Part 4 Questions 21–25 Read the text and questions below. For each question, circle the correct answer A, B, C or D.

A new, cheaper way to learn More and more people are discovering online learning can be fun and free, using MOOCS – ‘massive, open, online courses’ – and one of the biggest MOOCs is called FutureLearn. FutureLearn offers people all over the world a range of courses in a large number of areas – Science, Arts, Medicine, Technology, Sociology and so on – and the only thing you need is internet access. Obviously, on a MOOC, there is no personal teacher or tutor, so your learning depends a lot on you, how you learn, and on the people you coincide with (there may be thousands of them, so don’t expect to make many friends), but free education for anybody, anywhere is generally a good thing. FutureLearn was started in 2012 by a group of twelve British universities, who worked as partners in the project, and it is owned by The Open University. By early 2016, there were 82 partners from many different countries, including 55 universities and many other professional institutions such as the British Museum and the European Space Agency, working on the project. The first course started in Autumn 2013 and after only three years there were more than 3.5 million FutureLearn ‘graduates’ (the courses are not official qualifications, but you can pay for a certificate). The choice of courses you can do changes, because they take their ideas from users’ suggestions. The most popular courses run frequently, but other topics that have arrived include Discover dentistry, Causes of War, and Start Writing Fiction. Could the MOOC be the future of learning? Or will they simply increase the difference between the people who have access to technology and those who don’t? One thing is for sure: most people don’t actually finish their courses. You decide when you do them – so you fit them into your busy day if you can – and there is no teacher to motivate you. But as a way to ‘learn something new every day’, the MOOC is definitely a step in the right direction.

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Everybody who studies with a MOOC A

needs a teacher.

B

studies the same thing.

C

works online.

D

depends on other people.

If you study with the FutureLearn MOOC you A

might have a tutor.

B

won’t make new friends.

C

won’t learn a lot.

D

could study with a lot of other people.

It took FutureLearn three years to A

find a few new partners.

B

become very successful.

C

start its first course.

D

make any money.

People who study with this MOOC can always A

study the same courses.

B

find new courses available.

C

finish their studies.

D

get a free certificate.

The writer thinks that A

studying on a MOOC is a good thing.

B

everyone really needs a teacher.

C

MOOCs are not very motivating.

D

MOOCs increase inequality in the world. Marks (out of 5): _____

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Part 5 Questions 26 – 35 Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For each question, circle the correct answer A, B, C or D. Example: 0

A

at

B

in

C

of

D

on

A great little idea! A company (0) ……. India has had a brilliant idea: edible cutlery, (26) ……. means forks and spoons you can eat! Millions of plastic spoons (27) ……. in India every day, so this company has decided that the country needs to (28) ……. the amount of plastic waste this produces. The company was set (29) ……. in 2010 and its name is Bakeys. Many people in India are vegan, (30) ……. the edible spoons do not contain anything that comes from animals. Milk (31) ……. used, for example. The company uses three different types of (32) ……. , including rice, and all the ingredients they use in the spoons are from (33) ……. , local sources. People using the edible cutlery don’t (34) ……. to eat it if they don’t want to. It is totally eco-friendly! They can throw it (35) ……. – and after a few days … it’s gone! A great idea for a better future; well done, Bakeys!

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26

A

which

B

what

C

that

D

who

27

A

use

B

are using

C

are used

D

used

28

A

grow

B

get better

C

reduce

D

go down

29

A

at

B

on

C

out

D

up

30

A

but

B

so

C

because

D

then

31

A

mustn’t

B

don’t

C

can’t

D

isn’t

32

A

corn

B

grain

C

herb

D

plot

33

A

sustainable

B

prickly

C

portable

D

willing

34

A

like

B

must

C

can

D

have

35

A

around

B

away

C

off

D

through

Marks (out of 10): _____

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Writing Part 1 Questions 1 – 5 Here are some sentences about the euro. For each question, complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first. Use no more than three words. Write only the missing words on the line. Example: 0

You can use the euro in nearly twenty countries. to use It’s possible ……………………….. the euro in nearly twenty countries.

1

Europe started using euro notes in 2002. Euro notes ………………………………… in Europe since 2002.

2

The new notes have a woman’s face as a security feature; the woman is Europa. ………………………………… a security feature with a woman’s face on the new notes; the woman is Europa.

3

The new notes do not use different colours from the old notes. The new notes use ………………………………… as the old notes.

4

Each note shows a different architectural style. A different architectural style ………………………………… on each note.

5

The 500 euro note is bigger than the other six euro notes. The 500 euro note is ………………………………… of the seven different euro notes.

Marks (out of 5): _____

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Part 2 Question 6 Your company has decided to send you to visit a client in Chicago. You want to plan your time there. Write a note to your manager. In your note, you should

•

ask about the number and time of meetings

•

find out if your evenings are planned or free

•

thank your manager for helping.

Write 35 – 45 words.

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Marks (out of 5): _____

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Part 3 Write an answer to one of the questions (7 or 8) in this part. Write your answer in about 100 words on a separate sheet of paper. _______________________________________________________________

Question 7 •

This is part of an email you receive from your friend.

I have to give a presentation to my English class about either a useful app or website. Which app or website should I choose? What information could I include?

•

Now write an email answering your friend’s questions.

•

Write your email in about 100 words.

Question 8 •

Your English teacher has asked you to write a story about meeting a special person.

•

Your story must start with this sentence:

I have met some extraordinary people in my life, but one person has taught me more than anyone else. Write your story in about 100 words.

Marks (out of 15): _____

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