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Listening

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Listen and circle the correct answers.

1 Chocolate cakes are … favourite cakes. a the man’s b the man’s son’s

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c the woman’s

2 The shop doesn’t sell … cakes.

a healthy

b fruit

c chocolate

3 He can’t have a raspberry cake because they only make cakes …

a with strawberries.

b with pears.

c with fresh fruit.

4 In the end, the man orders a cake with …

a pears.

b oranges and pears.

5 The cake is enough for … a 12 people. b 20 people.

c oranges. c 14 people.

6 The man needs the cake on Friday …

a morning.

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b afternoon.

c night.

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CD1

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Listen and complete the sentences with one or two words.

1 A slice of apple 2 3 Don’t put potatoes in the 4 Keep onions in 5 Have fruit an hour 6 After a meal, wait a few

after a few minutes. keeps an apple fresh. . , dry places. you eat your meal. before you have any fruit.

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Test

Higher Level

Name: Class:

Listening

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CD1

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Listen and write T (true) or F (false). 1 Sam is showing his friends a photo album. 2 He had ‘bredie’ with vegetables and meat. 3 In Cape Town, he had a good sandwich from a

bakery. 4 He didn’t like having hot cereal with milk. 5 There was pineapple smoothie for breakfast at

the hotel.

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Test

Higher Level

Reading

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4 Read and write T (true), F (false) or DS (doesn’t say). 1

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BAOBAB, THE UPSIDE-DOWN TREE metres wide! People think it’s 6,000 years Baobab are beautiful trees in Africa and old! It’s 22 metres high and inside its trunk Australia. People also call them ‘bottle trees’ there’s a pub, ‘The Big Baobab Pub’. Tourists or ‘upside-down trees’ because of their can have a drink or something to eat funny shape. They haven’t got leaves inside the tree and, of for many months of the year course, take pictures. and so their branches People in Africa use look like roots in the the leaves and fruit air; the tree is upsidefrom these trees in down. There are eight different ways. They eat the leaves different species. fresh in a salad or cooked in soups. The Baobab trees can grow quite high, Baobab fruit is quite big, the size of a between five and 30 metres, and they coconut, and it tastes like grapefruit live for a very long time. They have a and pears. It contains many nutrients, very big trunk – seven to 11 metres all for example, Vitamins B and C, round. It can hold more than 100,000 iron and calcium. In some African litres of water and this is because countries, like Kenya and Tanzania, they live in very dry places. There’s people cook the Baobab seeds with one in Sunland Farm in Limpopo, sugar and have it for a snack. South Africa, and its trunk is 47

1 The leaves of a Baobab tree are upside-down. 2 There are more types of Baobab in Africa than in Australia. 3 There isn’t a lot of rain where the Baobab trees grow. 4 The farmers work in The Big Baobab Pub. 5 People prepare different foods with leaves and seeds from the Baobab trees.

Test

Higher Level

Name: Class:

Reading

Score:

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Read and match the descriptions to the correct vegetables. There are two vegetables you don’t need to use.

FRESH AND HEALTHY: tips on fruit and vegetables Welcome to my blog! I’ve got a vegetable quiz for you today. How much do you know about your veggies? Read the descriptions. Do you know what vegetable it is? Check your answers tomorrow!

1 It grows on the ground like

2 People around the world eat this vegetable.

watermelons and it gets very big and heavy. It contains Vitamins A, C and E. People make pies with it and they also use it to decorate their houses at Halloween. In the fairytale, Cinderella, one of these changes into a carriage.

There are many different types and they usually grow underground. This vegetable has got a very thin ‘skin’ – like paper. It has a very strong taste and when you cut it with a knife, it usually makes you cry. You can eat it in salads, sauces, soups and many other dishes.

3 It’s a very healthy vegetable and

4 It’s a very common vegetable and it makes delicious salads. We also put it in sandwiches with tomato, cheese and ham. It’s green and it’s got lots of leaves. It’s important to wash the leaves in water before you eat them. Its leaves can be straight or curly and there are different sizes.

when it’s fresh, it’s dark green. People usually boil it in water and eat it as part of a main meal. It belongs to the cabbage family and it’s very similar to the cauliflower. It’s rich in Vitamins C and K.

a

aubergine

b

cauliflower

c

onion

d

pumpkin

e

lettuce

f

broccoli

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Test

Higher Level

Name: Class:

Reading

Score:

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Read and circle A (Star fruit), B (Kumquat), C (Dragon fruit) or D (African cucumber).

Exotic fruit Do you like trying new types of fruit and vegetables? Here are some strange tropical fruits from around the world. They’re interesting to taste and look at!

A

Star fruit: comes from Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka

B

Kumquat: comes from China

C

Dragon fruit: comes from Mexico and South America

D

African cucumber: comes from Kalahari Desert, Africa

It’s a bright yellow colour and it combines lots of different flavours like pineapple, apple, lemon and orange. It’s rich in vitamin C and it’s usually sweet. It isn’t very small and its seeds are light brown. You can eat it with or without them. Some people put it in green salads. A kumquat is the size of an olive and it looks like an orange. It grows on trees that have white flowers. A big kumquat tree can give hundreds or thousands of fruits each year. You can make marmalade with kumquats and in Taiwan people add it to their tea. They say it helps when you have a sore throat. It’s also called ‘pitaya’ but in English the names ‘dragon fruit’ or ‘strawberry pear’ are more common. It isn’t a small fruit – a big one can weigh up to one kilo. It’s got colourful skin and depending on the type it can be red, yellow or white inside. It’s got lots of small black seeds. It sounds like a vegetable, but it’s more similar to a melon. People describe it as a ‘melon with horns’. Yellow on the outside and green on the inside, it tastes like bananas, lemons and cucumber. It’s often used for decoration, but it’s better to eat it because it contains vitamins and minerals.

1 The fruit inside can be different colours.

A

B

C

D

2 You can have it with a hot drink.

A

B

C

D

3 People often use it to make other dishes look pretty. A

B

C

D

4 It combines more than three different flavours.

A

B

C

D

5 Its seeds aren’t a dark colour.

A

B

C

D

6 There are things on its skin that some animals have.

A

B

C

D

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Test Writing

Higher Level

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Write questions with Is there/Are there. Use the words in brackets.

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? (avocado)

2

? (grapes)

3

? (raspberries)

Now look in the basket and write short answers to the questions above.

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Test Writing

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81 Look in the basket again. Write sentences with the words in brackets. Use There is/isn’t, There are/aren’t and a, an, some or any.

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(cherries)

2

(pineapple)

3

(avocado)

4

(plums)

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(spinach)

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9 Read Paul’s post on his blog.

PAUL’S BLOG

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A delicious day Yesterday was a great day, a delicious day! In the morning, I had toast with jam and eggs and a glass of pineapple juice. For lunch, I had chicken with rice and spinach. I love spinach! For dinner, we went to an Italian restaurant. My brother had spaghetti and I had pizza with mushrooms and onions. Yum!

Now write about the food you had in one day.

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Test

Higher Level

Name: Class:

Speaking

Score:

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What fruits and vegetables are there below? Look and make sentences with a(n), some or any and the words in the boxes below. pumpkin

grapes

aubergine

raspberries

cauliflower

11 Look at the picture again. Make questions and short answers with Is there/Are there and the words in the boxes below. strawberries

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avocado

peas

peppers

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lettuce

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