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1 13Listen and match the people to their jobs. There is one picture 5
you don’t need to use.

1 Bridget

2 Matt

3 Phillip

4 Kate

5 Jay

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21 Listen and complete the sentences with the words in the

14 4
boxes below. There are two words you don’t need to use.

big normal funny good terrible tall

1 At first, Michael wasn’t a basketball player.

2 When he was a boy, Michael wasn’t .

3 He has a breakfast every day.

4 His team players are very .

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x xgx Class:

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3 15 Listen and circle the correct answers. 5

1 Louis Armstrong was born in …

a 1901. b 1911. c 1921.

2 He was from a … family.

a rich b poor c big

3 He was famous at the age of …

a 20. b 12. c 30.

4 One of his favourite musical instruments was the …

a guitar. b piano. c trumpet.

5 A popular song by Louis Armstrong is What a wonderful …

a girl. b day. c world.

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41 Read and write T (true) or F (false). 5

THE PLACE WHERE COINS ARE BORN

Many people like collecting coins from First an artist designs the pictures for
around the world, but where do they the two sides of the coin. Then he looks
actually come from? Who at the drawing and creates a
makes the coins? Well, big model coin in plaster. (This
people don’t make them material is white and you may
in banks. They make see it on a friend’s broken arm
them in mints and lots or leg.) Special machines then
of countries have one. A use this model to make the coin.
mint is a special place – There are six mints in the
an interesting factory – USA. The one in Philadelphia
where people make makes lots of coins. In one
currency. There are huge day it can produce more than
machines to create the thirty million! Half of these are
coins, but artists also work ‘pennies’ – one-cent coins.
in mints.

1 A mint is similar to a bank. 4 At the beginning, coins are big and

white.
2 Artists work before the machines make
the coins. 5 The Philadelphia mint makes fewer
than 30 million one-cent coins.
3 Machines design the pictures on the
coins.

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5 Read and circle the perfect job for each person. 5

Choosing what to do when you’re older isn’t easy. You need to think about
what you like, what you don’t like and what the job involves. What’s the
perfect job for these people?

1 Patricia I love children, but I’m not very good at explaining things. I make my own
clothes, like T-shirts and skirts. People like them, but they don’t think
the same about my cooking. I’m lucky my sister is a very good cook!
fashion designer / teacher / chef

2 Ian My mother reads the news on TV. She talks to important politicians.
Everybody talks to her in the street like she’s a film star. I’m quite shy,
but I love the theatre and I take part in plays at school.
politician / TV presenter / actor

3 Elliot At school I was very good at maths and my university degree is in

science. My dad says ‘Why don’t you become a scientist?’ But my
passion is my guitar. I like teaching people how to play it.
musician / teacher / scientist

4 Margaret When I was little my favourite food was chicken with potatoes, but
today I don’t eat meat. I’m a vegetarian and member of an animal
protection group. I love being in the countryside and riding horses.
chef / doctor / farmer

5 Simon I love TVs, but I don’t like watching them. I like taking all the pieces out
and putting them back together. When I was little, I wasn’t interested
in toys from shops. I also make small cars and robots that move.
journalist / inventor / actor

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61 Read and write D (Duncan) or A (Andrew). 6

There are lots of different cleaning jobs: washing cars, cleaning boats and
ships, cleaning other people’s houses. Duncan and Andrew are a different
type of cleaner. Read and find out!

I’m Duncan. I clean the Great

Clock of Westminster, known I’m Andrew. I work in New
as Big Ben, and other buildings York cleaning the windows
in London with two other of skyscrapers, the city’s
cleaners. Big Ben is a very old very tall buildings. I love
and beautiful monument. It’s heights and skyscrapers like
a symbol in Great Britain and the Empire State Building!
famous around the world. We I usually work at very big
hang from nylon ropes at a heights – more than 250
height of 100 metres – that’s metres. There are usually
quite dangerous. Also, the three or four cleaners
clock never stops! So while working at the same time.
we are working, its hands are We wear special belts and
moving, too. Big Ben has got we use very strong ropes to
four faces and it’s seven metres hang outside the windows.
wide. It takes us about a week But it’s dangerous when it’s
to clean it – not bad! windy or very cold.

1 He works on taller buildings. 4 He says his job is dangerous depending

2 He works at a height of less than 200 on the weather.
metres. 5 He cleans a historical monument.
3 He doesn’t use nylon ropes. 6 He finishes this job in about seven
days.

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71 Write the missing letters in the jobs. Then match them to the 10
pictures.
a
1 s nti

2 politi

3 fa on desi r b
4 l er

5 b nes an

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81 Order and write the questions. Look at the pictures and write 5
the answers.

1 TV / want / Does / he / to / a / presenter? / be

2 your / favourite / Was / pizza? / food

3 grandfather / Was / a / your / teacher?

4 job / Is / dangerous? / your

5 Bob / Tim / builders? / and / Were

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91 Read. 5

When I was little, my favourite food was spaghetti

and tomato sauce. Now I like pizza more. I was
shy and quiet, but now I’m noisy. My favourite toy
was my green bike. Here’s a picture of it. Marcos
and Maria were my best friends.

Now write about you and draw a picture.

When I was little,

. Now .
, but now
. My
. Here’s a picture of it.
best friends.

Total test score: 50

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10
1 Name five jobs and describe them using the words in the boxes 5
below.

easy interesting dangerous exciting safe boring difficult

1 2 3 4

5 6 7

Score:
11 Now ask and answer questions about the pictures using was/were.
Use the words in the boxes below. 5

disappointed / good / noisy / scientists / favourite toys

happy naughty quiet chefs

1 2 3 4 5

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