Objective KET SB

4Read about New Year in Japan. Fill each

space with one of

the verbs from the box in the

correct form. Two of the verbs are negative.

	stay	begin		eat (x 2)	go (x 3) €efTte
	clean	send		watch	listen		drink
	nng	enJoy		make	receIve		do
Akiko Imai (1)			.... .....fPrn..l!:? fj-Olll Japan				Many young
Japanese people otten (2) .						. away with theIr
friends at New Year but Akiko (3) .							.. usually
	.......	avvay, she (4) .				at home \vith
her fJmily. In JJ~xm, New YeJr (5)							. on 31 st
December. On thJt day, Akiko (6) '"							.. TV
and (7) ......			. a special kind of pasu called ,oba.
At midnight (12 o'clock), she (8) .							.. to the
sound of the temple bell ringing. It (9)							.....
I (J,s times. Oil Nevv Year', Day, ] st Jmuar,. Akiko
and her Lunily			(10)	. .. ....... sake. a kind of rice
wine. Aiter, they all				(11) ..................		popular fC){Kh
like rice cake and soup. It is a speClal day fCH
children because they (I2) ........................						some mone)

ill special envelopes fj-OI11 their relatives. Bef(JI'C New

Year's Day,Japanese people usually (13) ....

tbeir houses, (14). . ............... a lot of food and
(IS) .......... .	. a lot of shopping. Akiko otten
(16) .........................	greetings cards to her fi-ieuds.

New Year is one of the most important days in Japan

and Akiko always (17)		'" it because she
(I8) ......	to school 011	that day~

5 Ten your partner about your

days.

We often have fireworks.

What do you do on public holidays?

What happens when there is a festival in your town?

6Write a note to a a your town.

Say:

when the festival is

what you do at the festival what you eat.

When'syour birthday?

•Form groups of four to six students.

•Then everyone in the group must stand in the order of the date of their birthday.

•The winners are the team who get in the right order first. Everyone must be able to say the date of their birthday in English. If you can't, your team is out.

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I 1

Inn

In Part 6 of the Reading and Writing paper there are five questions (36-40) and an example. Each question is a sentence which gives a description of a word. You must write the word, spelling it correctly. The first letter of the word is always given to you.

are some ways to practise spelling.

EXAMPLE: meat
	A	B
1 me		pie
2 but		ce
3	wait	ket
4	di	rot
5	jui	ta
6	mar	at
7 pas		ato
8	tom	ter
9 car		ress
10 ap		sh

2 KET students		find some words difficult to spell.
Find the word which is spelled wrongly in each group and
correct the spelling.
1 favourite		~ disappointed		traditional different
2	actor	nurse	painter	pilat
3	pink	white	yeIlo	grey
4	bath	chair	bed	mirrer
5 husband		mother	daughter	unkle
6 beatiful		famous	rich	single
7	television	telefone	cooker	camera
8	cloudy	sunney	stormy	windy
9 wich		who	that	when
10 nice		friendly	confortable	interesting
11	hope	know	think	belive
12	hospital	airport	library	appartment
3	a
1 a dining room ..!....~...?n....tI:!.??.t/?.t?..I!!..,...............................................................
2	pIzza	......................................................................................................................		.
3	a waiter	......................................................................................................................		.
4 a cafe		......................................................................................................................		.
5	breakfast	......................................................................................................................		.
6	a snack	......................................................................................................................		.
7	a kitchen	......................................................................................................................		.
8	a fridge	......................................................................................................................		.

9 fruit .......................................................................................................................

10 ice cream

4Think of your own descriptions and ask your partner what the answer

EXAMPLE: A: This is brown and it's very sweet. What is it?

B:Chocolate.

1 Match the	below	their nationality.
What are they famous for doing?
Roald Amundsen		American
Ferdinand Magellan		British
Ranulph Fiennes		Spanish
Neil Armstrong		Portuguese
Hernan Cortes		Italian
Marco Polo		Norwegian

1Where did the Polo family come from? They were a rich family and they lived in Italy over 750 years ago. They travelled all over the Mediterranean. They bought and sold things like gold and silver. Marco was born in 12';4 in Venice.

2Marco was only six years old when his father and uncle went on their first journey to China. In China, they met the King of the Mongols, Kublai Khan.

5He visited the largest city in China, called Kinsai, many times. lIe said that the people in Kinsai wore beautiful clothes and ate good food. There were ten big markets in Kinsai and they sold everything people wanted.

4	In 1275 they arrived in Khanbalik
3 Marco didn't see his father again for	(modern Beijing) and saw Kublai
	Khan. He talked to them and
nine years. He was 15 when his father	asked them many questions. He
and uncle returned from China.The	liked Marco and so he gave him a
next time his father and uncle decided	job. What did Marco do in China?
to go to China they took Marco with	Well, he travelled all over the
them. This was in 1271.	country. He saw that the Chinese
They went by ship	used paper
to Turkey and	money
then used	and used
horses.	a machine
It was a long	to print
journey.	books.

6Marco stayed in China for 17 years. The journey home took Marco and his family two years. In Italy, Marco decided to write a book about his life

in China. Many people didn't believe Marco's stories at first. Later, they believed him. Marco died in 1324.

2	information about Marco
Are	sentences opposite right or wrong?
If	is no information,	say'.

EXAMPLES:

Marco Polo lived over 850 years ago.

Wrong. He didn'{; live 850 he lived 750 years ago.

Marco travelled all over the Mediterranean.

Poesn't.

Marco came from Venice.

1Marco first went to China when he was six years old.

2It took Marco and his family a long time to get to China.

3Marco travelled to China by boat and on a horse.

4 Marco spoke to Kublai Khan.

S Marco liked Kublai Khan very much.

6Kinsai had twelve markets.

7Marco took a long time to write his book about China.

8Marco died a poor man.

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1Ask your partner questions about an interesting place he or she visited last year.

EXAMPLE: Where / go?

A:Where did you go?

B:[went to an art gallery / to a museum / to London.

When / go?	How much / cost?
How / travel?	What / see?
What / do?	How long / stay?
Who / go with?

2 n Listen to a girl called Melanie talking about a school trip to Paris.

Cirde the correct answer.

1Number of days in Paris: 2/5

2Coach left school at: 5.00/5.30 am

3Cost of trip: £240/£214

4Name of hotel in Paris: BERRI/ VERRY

5Enjoyed shopping / boat trip best.

3 Now listen to Melanie again and answer with short answers.

1Did the students arrive at school late?

No) they didn't.

2Did Melanie like the coach journey?

3Did they stop at a cafe on the motorway for some sandwiches?

4Did it take eight hours to go from London to Paris?

5Did they stay at a new hotel?

6Did Melanie speak French all the time?

7Did Melanie buy a present for her sister?

8Did she take lots of photos?

9Did she enjoy the trip?

10Did they arrive back in London late?

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UNITS 1-4 Revision

Speaking

1Read these sentences with a partner. Say if each sentence is true for you and give some extra information.

EXAMPLE: My friends like the same things as I do.

No, not true. My friends are all very different. !vIy best friend likes listening to bands. Some of my other friends like skateboarding and one prefers to play on his computer.

I I had a great party for my birthday.

2I prefer to have a lot of friends, not just one best friend.

3I spend a lot of money on CDs and DVDs.

4I don't care about fashion.

5I love chocolate.

6I think people eat too much nowadays.

7My best friend never makes me angry.

8I like going on trips with my parents more than I do with my school.

bulary

2	the	one out.
I	sad	happy	pleased	~
2	nice	short	boring	funny
3 interesting		boring	friend	exciting
4	shop	store	house	market
5	fish	meat	coffee	biscuits
6	onion	orange	apple	lemon
7	cafe	dining room	restaurant	hall
8	art gallery	museum	exhibition	bookshop

3Put the letters in the right order to spell things you can eat drink.

llevabeget		7	s h f i
2	ckans	8	rrctao
3 tea m		9	tbtreu
4	kl m i	10 ocohltace
5	cejiu	11	otpaot
6	pegar	12 ncekhic

Writing

4 Read the descriptions of different

where	can buy things.
What is the word for		one?

The first letter is already there.

1People can buy fruit and vegetables here.

m

2This shop sells newspapers. n

3This shop sells medicines. c

4If you go here, you can buy most

things.

s _________ _

5Buy your stamps at this place.

p ___ 0 ____ _

1
	1 rea b	6 noldpih
	2 ehsor	7	s h i f
	3 act	8	redips
	4 gd 0	9 eymkon
	5 epalehnt	10	wo c
2	your favourite		you a
	What's its name?

Pronunciation

3 n Listen to a man ~"''''U''.F. he likes.

I like horses, cows, dogs and cats.

I like monkeys, elephants and bears.

in the class to

EXAMPLE: Pietro likes bears, dolphins and dogs.

•After a verb we usually put and between the last two nouns, adjectives or verbs in a

list, and commas (,) between the other things.

I like horses, cows, dogs and cats.

The bear was large, hungry and dangerous.

We swam, played volleyball and ate ice cream.

• And is less common with adjectives before a noun. We normally just use a comma.

a big, yello w fish

•When we use and we often miss out words instead of repeating them.

Nicole goes shopping and 5"'0 §oos swimming at the weekend.

The monkeys and #te birds were up in the trees.

4 Here are some errors that candidates have made with and in the KET exam. Correct the sentences.

1I saw a nice and colourful parrot at the zoo.

2Yesterday we went to the zoo and yesterday we went to the museum.

3Susanna went out yesterday and Susanna took her dog for a walk.

4There are many cats, dogs, horses at the farm.

SThe dolphins were near the boat and the birds were near the boat.

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