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1. SENA
BASIC ENGLISH 3
TEM EXAM
BOOKLET
GRAMMAR
A. Complete the sentences with the correct adjective forms. (5 marks, 0.5 each)
1 Spring in Europe is colder than (cold) summer.
2 I think Manchester is (interesting) city in England.
3 Aconcagua is (high) mountain in South America.
4 The bed in this hotel is (comfortable) my bed at home!
5 His second film was (boring) his first one.
6 It was (good) holiday of my life!
7 They live in , (noisy / dirty) street in the city.
8 Brazil is (hot) and (wet) Russia.
9 The beaches are usually (crowded) in summer.
B. Complete the conversation with one word in each gap. Use the verbs or words in the box appropriately.
(5 Marks, 0.5 each)
go go go where have be stay see play do do
A: How 1 was your weekend?
B: Nothing special. And you?
A: I 2 a perfect weekend!
B: Really? What 3 you do?
A: Lots of things. I 4 clubbing on Friday night.
B: 5 you sleep all day on Saturday?
A: No. I 6 shopping, then I 7 a computer game.
B: That sounds terrible!
A: It wasn’t! I 8 for a meal and 9 a film in the evening.
B: Great. 10 did you go on Sunday?
A: Nowhere – I 11 in bed!
C. Complete the sentences with the verbs in the past simple or past continuous. (5 Marks, 0.5 each)
1 He was playing tennis when he hurt his arm. (play / hurt)
2 Who you to when I you? (talk / see)
3 Mandy me while I dinner. (call / eat)
4 I a bath when the doctor . (have / come)
5 While they , they lots of new friends. (travel / make)
6 Jack a new job when he won the lottery. (look for)
D. Future tenses. Match 1–6 with a)–f). Then complete the questions. (5 marks, 0.5 each)
1 Are you seeing Juan later?
2 Where are they for their holiday?
3 It’s quarter past ten. What’s Milly ?
4 What we having for dinner tonight?
5 Are you very tired?
_d__
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a) Yes, I’m taking some time off next week.
b) I don’t know. But she’s going to miss the last bus.
c) Relax and play golf!
d) Yes, we’re meeting at 7.30
e) They’re going to stay at home!

2. 6 What are you going to when you
retire?
____ f) You’re going to make fish and chips!
LISTENING
A. Listen and underline the correct answer, a), b) or c). (5 Marks, 1 each)
1 Freddie’s new salary will be C .
a) €40,000
b) €18,000
c) €80,000
2 Caroline thinks Freddie’s new job will be in .
a) England
b) Rome
c) Cambridge
3 Freddie has to move to Rome because .
a) he’ll travel all over the world
b) the European sales office is there
c) the schools are better there
4 Caroline is worried about the children going to
school in Rome because .
a) they don’t have any friends there
b) there aren’t any good schools in Rome
c) they don’t speak Italian
5 Freddie thinks their parents will come to visit
them in Rome because .
a) they can drive there
b) it’s very easy to fly from England
c) they like Italian food
6 When Caroline goes to Rome, she can .
a) learn Italian
b) get a new job
c) work online
B. Listen to the phone call and complete the notes. (6 Marks, 1 each)
Apollo travel
Name of customer: (1) ______
Destination: Corfu
Dates: 15th to (2) _______ September
Breakfast included: (3) Yes / No
Total price: € (4) _______
Fly from: (5) _______ airport
Flight leaves at: (6) _______ pm
READING
A. Put sentences a)–e) in the correct places 1–5 in the article. (4 Marks, 1 each)
The holiday of a lifetime
The Trans-Siberian Railway journey is one of the most amazing train journeys in the world.1 d . It starts in
Moscow and finishes in Vladivostock, on Russia’s Pacific Coast, 6,500 miles (10,500 kilometres) away. You travel
from Europe into Asia, go through seven time zones and pass by 87 towns and cities.

3. 2 . But it isn’t a good idea. The train stops at thirteen different stations and there’s so much to see.
First of all, you should go to Lake Baikal, the world's largest fresh water lake. 3 . And you really have to
visit Yekaterinburg, where the last Tsar of Russia and his family died in 1918. 4 .
The train is very comfortable with two or four-bed compartments. The best time to travel is in the spring or
autumn because the weather is better then. 5 . Or you can take a two-week guided tour from London
for about £7,000. Have a great trip!
a) This all makes the trip more expensive, but also much more interesting and exciting.
b) The cheapest ticket is around £300.
c) Then there’s the city of Novosibirsk, the capital of Siberia, with one and a half million people.
d) It is not only one of the most famous railways in the world but it is also the longest.
e) If you don’t stop anywhere on the way, you can get to Vladivostock in six days.
B. Read the article again. Write true (T) or false (F) for sentences 1–8. (7 Marks, 1 each)
1 The Trans-Siberian Railway is Russian. _ T _
2 Vladivostok is by the sea.
3 The train stops at 87 stations.
4 The best way to travel is to go non-stop.
5 Novosibirsk isn’t very big.
6 It’s better to stop and visit different places on the journey.
7 It’s a good idea to do the train journey in summer.
8 It’s cheaper to take a guided tour.
WRITING
Write a story about a memorable journey/holiday that went very well or very badly. Use the questions in the
box to help you. Write 75–100 words. (8 Marks)
When? Who with? Where was it? What happened? Why was it good/bad? Why do you remember it?