Listening is taken from Challenges 4

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LISTENING EXAM I GRADE 9 SEMESTER I
Name: __________________________ Grade ___________________________
SAVE THE PLANET
1. KEY WORDS
2. Look at the photos and the Key words. Which of the things are good for our planet?
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3. Listen to Tom and Keith. How do they answer these questions?
1. How important is the environment for you?
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2. What do you think is the biggest environmental problem (in the world or your area)
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3. How will global warming affect our lives?
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4. What do you do to help the planet?
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Climate change, deforestation, drought, energy-saving light bulbs, floods, fossil fuels (e. g
petrol, gas, coal), global warming, greenhouse gases (e.g. carbon dioxide), hybrid cars (using
electricity and petrol), organic vegetables, pollution, recycling, renewable energy, solar
energy, wind farms.

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4. GOING GREEN
Read the text. List the things the Barnes family plan to change in their life.
We hear a lot of about how we should change our lives to help save our planet. We talked to Jim
Barnes, 15, from Oxford, whose family has decided to go green.
‘An average UK family produces more than 1 ton of rubbish a year. So we want to recycle
everything. We’re going to grow our own vegetables and keep hens. Soon, we’ll be eating our
own eggs for breakfast! And I’ll be able to take the eggs to school to compare them with
supermarket eggs.
To save electricity, we’re going to watch less TV and use low energy light bulbs. We’re going
to put solar panels on our roof for the heating and hot water. This time next week, I’ll be having a
free solar shower!
We’re going to walk and cycle to cut air pollution, too. So, at 7.30 on Monday morning, my
dad will be cycling to work and I’ll be going to school on my skateboard – how cool is that?!’
Questions:
1. Which of their plans are the most difficult to achieve?
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2. Which actions help protect the environment most? Why?
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3. List the things the Barnes family plan to change in their life!
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5. Fair Trade
GIFT SELECTION
We are pleased to announce our new range of products for consumers with a conscience: the Fair
Trade Logo guarantees that producers from developing countries get a good deal. You can help the
environment by buying products with the ecology label. No pesticides or chemicals are used in
making products with the organic logo.

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FAIR TRADE CHOCOLATE
Try our delicious chocolate (dark
or milk). Four packs of 100 g for
only £7.95. 70% of cacao (used to
make chocolate is grown in West Africa, where cheap
child labour and toxic pesticides are common.
However, farmers on our programme are paid well for
producing cacao and they don’t use pesticide.
SUGAR BODY SCRUB
Are you worried about using
personal care products containing
chemicals? Our creamy, organic
body scrub gives you beautiful,
fresh smooth skin and only has
pure, natural ingredients. All the ingredients are
produced without using pesticides. This is important
because 60% of what you put on your skin is absorbed
by it. Excellent value at only £6.50. Many personal
care products have potentially toxic chemicals like
triclosan and formalin. Some people are allergic to
them and scientists believe they might cause cancer.
SOLIO CHARGER
Take a look at this fantastic solar-powered
gadget. It charges your mobile,
MP3 player, digital camera and
game console-for free! Just
leave it in the sunny place It
takes an hour in the sun to get
ten minutes on your mobile, an hour of music or
enough power to take lots of photos. You can
forget about buying expensive, toxic batteries or
using wall chargers. And with Solio, you can
charge your gadgets anywhere-on the bus, a
plane or even on the beach! A real bargain at
only £47.99. If you’re not careful, you can waste
electricity by using a wall charger. It uses
electricity even when your mobile is charged or
disconnected.
FAIR-DEAL FOOTBALL
This top-quality handmade football is approved
by FIFA for international
games-the ideal present for
young players interested in
becoming the stars of the
future. It’s tough and
durable and costs only
£9.95. 75% of the world’s footballs are made in
Pakistan where long hours and low pay are
common. Our workers get a decent wage so they
can send their children to school and take
holiday.
Questions.
5.1. Which of the products in the brochure would you like to get as a present? and why?
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5.2. Which of them would you buy with your own money? and why?
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5.3. Would you pay a little bit extra for a green or fair-trade product? Why?
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6. Word Builder. Complete the examples from the text with get or take.
1. ________________ a good deal
2. ________________ a look at something
3. _______________ an hour
4. _______________ photos
5. _______________ a decent wage
6. _______________ holidays.
YOUR CHALLENGE
7. READ THE ESSAY AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
1. Shopping has never been easier in Britain – you can shop till you drop seven days a week,
twenty-four hours a day. You can go to supermarkets in the middle of the night in order to
avoid the crowds and you can take your credit card in case you run out of cash.
2. Of course, this is great for the economy. For example, the British supermarket, Tesco, controls
33% of the food market in the UK and has 152,000 workers in Europe. Shopping centers are
attractive, modern places which are warm in the winter and cool in the summer. For many
people, including teenagers, shopping is a social event. ‘I go shopping with my friends at the
weekend so that I can have fun,’ says Penny Allbrow, 17 from Manchester. ‘Shopping is one of
my main hobbies’.
3. However, shopping has a big cost. Between 2 and 10% of the population are ‘compulsive
shoppers’ and every year, 50,000 shopaholics have serious financial problems. Shopping is
also disastrous for the environment. We buy products we don’t need with layers and layers of
packaging. Finally, while we shop in the west, millions around the world haven’t got enough to
eat. Under 20% of the people in the world use 80% of the world’s resources. Is that fair?
4. To sum up, I think British people should shop less and start living more. Go out, play sport, join
clubs, do things to have real fun. Spending money doesn’t make you happy!
1. What days and times can you go shopping?
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2. Is shopping one of your hobbies? Why or why not?
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3. Do you agree with the article? Why or why not?
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8. Text Builder
Match the paragraphs (1-4) with the topics (a-d)
a. _______ reasons against shopping for fun.
b. _______ reasons for shopping.
c. _______ personal opinion.
d. _______ shopping in Britain.

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9. Look at the linking words in underline in the text. Match them with the uses below (a-e)
Example:
a. ______in case___ show something might happen in the future.
b. ______________ show the purpose for doing something (3X)
c. ______________ make a conclusion.
d. ______________ give an example.
e. ______________ contrast two ideas.
Complete the sentences with the words in underline from the text.
1. Take your umbrella ___________________ it rains.
2. Take your umbrella ___________________ keep dry.
3. Take your umbrella ___________________ you don’t get wet.
10. Everyday Listening
Look at these predictions for European weather in 2080. Which do you think are most likely to
happen and give tick ().
1. ________ There will be wet weather in the winter in northern Europe, especially Scotland.
2. ________ There will be extremely heavy snowfalls in the Alps.
3. ________ The minimum temperature in Moscow will be -30.
4. ________ There will be very little rain in the southern and central Spanish desert.
5. ________ In the spring, storms will cause flooding in Holland, the Czech Republic and Poland.
6. ________ There will be a heat wave throughout Europe in August.
7. ________ Temperatures in Southern Spain will reach 50.
8 ________ Hurricanes will hit Western Europe.

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