Widgb2 SLD Eoytest Lur
Widgb2 SLD Eoytest Lur
Widgb2 SLD Eoytest Lur
Name: ________________________
Class: ________________________
LISTENING
1 [WIDGB2_EoYtest_Listening1.mp3]
You will hear an interview with a young professional dancer called Alicia.
Put a cross (X) in the correct box in the table to show if the sentences are True or
False.
You will hear the recording twice.
True False
1 Alicia mostly dances to hip hop.
2 [WIDGB2_EoYtest_Listening2.mp3]
You will hear four teenagers talking about the cultural activities they enjoy doing.
Match the questions 1–10 with the four speakers A–D.
Write the correct letters (A–D) in the table. You need to use the letters more than
once.
Questions Speaker
2 Who doesn’t want to get a job doing the cultural activity they
enjoy?
/10
USE OF ENGLISH
1 Choose A, B or C to complete the blog entry.
He's my friend because he's cheerful and 5____ – he always wants to do things for other
people.
A moody B shy C helpful
Alastair also does a lot of sport, but he doesn’t eat much healthy food.
He eats 6____ crisps and burgers!
A too many B too much C any
Sometimes, he’s a bit 9____ and makes big decisions without really thinking about them
carefully.
Decide if sentences 1–10 are True (T), False (F), or if the text Doesn’t Say (DS).
Circle the correct answer.
THE HIGHEST CITY IN THE WORLD
The city of El Alto (a Spanish word meaning ‘the high place’) is the world’s highest city at 4,150 m
above sea level. It is Bolivia’s second biggest city, after Santa Cruz de la Sierra, and has a population
of around one million. The South American country also has the world’s highest capital city, La Paz.
Strangely, the city of El Alto didn’t even exist until 1903, when the railway passing from Lake
Titicaca to La Paz arrived. It has very few historical buildings, unlike the nearby La Paz, which
started life 400 years earlier.
The first school opened in 1939, mainly for the children of railway workers who lived there. The city
grew enormously in the 1950s when it became connected to the water pipes that came under the
ground from La Paz. Until then, water had to be brought to El Alto in lorries.
The majority of people in El Alto are not of Spanish origin, but are Aymara people, who lived in
Bolivia before Europeans arrived.
The city’s traffic police officers, are largely Aymara women dressed in traditional brightlycoloured
skirts and shirts, which seems an unusual sight to most outsiders.
The climate there is cool. Even in summer, the maximum daytime temperature is only 17oC in the
warmest month, November. In winter, it’s about 7oC in the coldest month, but it’s much drier than the
warmer summers, the driest month being June.
For a long time, El Alto was a residential area housing the workers from La Paz, with little industry of
its own, but this has changed over the last 20 years or so. The city now even has a special day when
they celebrate the date when politicians decided that El Alto should have its own city council (March
6th 1985) and when El Alto became an independent city.
DAILY RESPECT
Growing up is hard work! Many young people complain that they are not given enough help by those
people who should be helping them most – adults! ‘I can’t understand it.’ says 15yearold Hayley
Lomas, ‘Adults have all been teenagers at some point so they know how it feels. But instead of
understanding, sympathy and support in getting through this difficult time, we often get criticism.’
Hayley isn’t alone in thinking this, but there are, of course, many adults who do want to pass on their
experience and knowledge. In fact, some of them have now set up a website and mobile phone app
called Daily Respect to do just that. So how does it work?
Daily Respect contacted over a thousand teens to get their ideas on which subjects to cover before
they even started the site, and now ask their app and website users to email them ideas for other topics
they could cover.
‘The most popular area of the site are the pages about relationships,’ explains Tillotson. ‘But
problems at school including bullying are not far behind. An area that’s growing fastest are probably
the pages about problems online – you know, cyberbullying and abuse on sites like Facebook.’
The site and messages aim not to judge young people but to provide simple, practical information to
help them make good decisions and so get as much as possible from life.
‘We aim to supply information so that teenagers can make their own decisions, free of other peoples’
opinions,’ says Geraint. ‘No advice is given, just information, so we won’t tell you what you should
do – we will give you the tools to manage situations yourself, or with support.’
6 The text says that most teenagers look for information about
A relationship problems.
B problems online.
C problems at school.
If you are interested in getting the daily messages, look for the free app in your usual app store. To
visit the website, click on the link here – what have you got to lose?