1 [WIDGB1_Utest_6_Dictation.mp3] Listen and write the words that you hear.
I had a yesterday.
I went to a
I saw my .
He scored .
My the game
so I .
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LISTENING
2 [WIDGB1_Utest_6_Listening.mp3]
Listen to the radio programme about some people’s good and bad experiences of
doing sport and decide if the sentences are True or False.
Put a cross (X) in the correct place in the table.
TRUE FALSE
1 The programme is about famous sportspeople.
2 Keira beat tennis star Serena Williams at football.
3 Emmanual did a long running race a year ago.
4 Emmanual finished the race very quickly.
5 Sally had an accident in an archery class.
6 Jens hit the Queen when he was on his bike.
7 Jens said the Queen was in a shopping centre.
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UNIT 6: Skills
GROUP A
READING
3 Read the text about four young sports stars and decide which sports star (1–4) the
sentences in the table match with.
Write the number of the sports star in the box next to the sentence.
Which sports star... Number:
1 ... is the oldest?
2 ... is from a different country to their dad?
3 ... came second in a competition in 2014?
4 ... started doing their sport as a job when they were fifteen?
5 ... is from North America?
6 ... learns about their sport from a member of their family?
7 ... plays for a club in a different country to where they were born?
1
Breanna Mackenzie Stewart was born on August 27, 1994, in New York, USA and now plays for
Seattle Storm in the Women’s NBA. She’s 1.93 m tall, weighs 77 kg, and is a strong player on the
basketball court. She won the WNBA New Player of the Year medal in 2016.
2
Martin Ødegaard from Norway was born on 17 December 1998 and plays for one of the world’s best
football clubs, Real Madrid, Spain. He started playing professionally for Strømsgodset Toppfotball
on 13 April 2014, and was their youngest ever goal scorer. He plays for the Norway national team
too.
3
Belinda Bencic, born 10 March 1997, is a Swiss tennis player. In 2013, she won the French Open
and Wimbledon girls' singles titles. Bencic’s coach is her father, who moved to Switzerland from
Czechoslovakia in 1968. In 2015, she won against the best tennis player in the world, Serena
Williams.
4
Matheus Paulo de Santana was born on April 2, 1996 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He won his first
national swimming competition in November 2011. At the Youth Olympics in August 2014, he won
a silver medal in the 50-metre race and a gold in the 100-metre one and broke the junior world
Jim Carrey doesn't look like any comedian, Hollywood actor, either in appearance or in acting.
Sparkling humor, funny antics and an eternal snow-white smile are his calling cards. He's the owner of rather large eyes, and this in the male horoscope means a night birth with the Moon above the horizon, which has no competitors. And the truth is – one identity, individuality and detachment from the big circle of «celebrity race».
From the peculiarity of the facial features, we can distinguish large teeth and a high forehead, a Mercurian chin, moreover, not reduced, as usual, but on the contrary; perhaps a wide nose can also be attributed here. The above-said is aggravated, coupled with the characteristic thick chestnut shade of the face.
Actually, recently, after many problems and quarrels in his personal life, Kerry changed his appearance, grew a big beard and his mental state affected facial and age wrinkles, including a lot of «crow's feet».