Think L3 Skills Test Units 9-10

Name Class Date
SKILLS TEST 9 & 10

READING
1 Read the article quickly. Match the opinions (1–7)
to Amanda (A), Kara (K) or Lisa (L).
1 It’s possible that aliens are making the

crop circles.
Crop circles: who makes them
2 It’s certain that farmers are making them.
and why?
Crop circles – mysterious patterns which appear
3 It’s possible that animals make them. in fields each summer – have been puzzling people
since the 1600s. After the 1970s, more and more
4 It’s not possible that the weather is
of these odd circles were reported in the English
making them.
countryside. But, so far, they remain unexplained.
5 Young people might be making them. Who, or what, is causing them? Do they have a
natural cause? Or do people make them? Are they a
6 Crop circles are making people rich. message? If so, what are they trying to say to us?
7 We don’t understand what the circles are
AMANDA – TWO DAYS AGO
trying to communicate yet.
It must have been the farmers making them all this time. I
think some of them might be bored, and they go down to
7 their fields in the middle of the night and make all these
circles. It goes without saying that they get a lot of attention
2 Read the article again. Mark these sentences from the TV and newspapers, and then their farms become
T (true) or F (false), or DS (the article doesn’t say). famous. And I’d go one step further. A lot of them may be
getting a lot of extra money from tourists in the summer! It
can’t be aliens. What a ridiculous idea! If aliens exist, then
1 Crop circles are a recent phenomenon.
there are better ways to communicate with us than leaving
2 They have appeared all over the world. circles in a field in the middle of the countryside!
3 Amanda thinks that farmers benefit from KARA – YESTERDAY

the crop circles. Amanda shouldn’t have said it was farmers. These crop
4 She also thinks that aliens might exist. circles have been appearing for centuries. Why would
farmers damage their own crops? They must be really angry
5 Kara doesn’t agree with Amanda. when they find out that their crops have been destroyed.
And it can’t be animals making them, or storms. The circles
6 She believes that we haven’t understood
are too complicated, and there are too many of them. I think
the crop circles yet.
it could be aliens. They might have a completely different
7 Lisa says that people are studying the language to us, and we need to try and work out what
crop circles. they’re saying.
8 She thinks there is a special energy

LISA – FOUR HOURS AGO
everywhere under the earth.
There have been thousands of crop circles for centuries, and
yes, they are mysterious. They can’t all have been created
8 by the same thing. Some of them might have been caused
by animals, or the weather. Some of them could have been
made by people – maybe students or farmers – wanting to
play a joke on the rest of us. I think there could be another
reason, which we don’t know about yet. For example, there
might be some kind of energy under the ground – like a
magnetic energy – in special places. This could be causing
the plants to move or bend, and that creates the circles.
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Name Class Date
SKILLS TEST 9 & 10

LISTENING
3 Listen to a conversation. Match the information (1–7) with the numbers (a–g).
1 How much it costs to make a $0.01 coin.
2 How much it costs to make a $1 banknote.
3 The percentage of the world’s money that is coins and banknotes.
4 The number of trees used to make banknotes.
5 The number of countries which use plastic banknotes.
6 The percentage of bank notes that have some kind of bacteria on them.
7 The number of days that one type of virus can exist on a banknote.
a 2.4
b 7
c 94
d 8
e 17
f 0
g 5.7
4 Listen again. Complete the notes with one word or number in each gap. Use words or numbers that the
speakers use.
1 The smallest American is the cent, which costs $0.024 to produce.
2 A US dollar costs as much to make as a cent.
3 Most of our money is just on a computer.
4 People are using bank more than cash, and this will increase in the future.
5 According to the quiz, money isn’t made from , but from cotton and linen.
6 More people will be using money made from in the future.
7 One British banknote passes between different people over nine years.
8 The virus can stay on a banknote for more than two weeks.
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Name Class Date
SKILLS TEST 9 & 10

WRITING
5 Read this email from a friend. Write a reply (150–180 words). Use the questions below to help you.
• Do you think the black shape could have been the
Loch Ness monster?
Hello! • What do you think Laura might have seen?
I went to Loch Ness last week with my parents.
• Should Laura have used her phone to call her father?
Of course, my father said that there was a famous
monster living under the water, but I didn’t believe him.
But, early one morning, I went out for a walk alone
near Loch Ness. It was raining, and quite windy,
but for some reason, I didn’t want to go back to the
house where we were staying. I felt like there was
something in the water, watching me!
Suddenly, I saw a big, black shape, about 200 metres
away in the water. It was moving! I quickly took out
my phone, and called my parents to come and see it.
Then, the shape disappeared. What was it? Was it
the monster?
I went back to the lake every day to check. The weather
was perfect and clear, but I didn’t see any sign of the
monster again. Maybe it only comes out in bad weather.
See you soon,
Laura
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SPEAKING
6 Work in pairs. Look at the photos below. They show people buying things. Take turns to describe your
photo, and say what you think is happening. Then, decide why people go shopping in situations like these.
A B
7 Work in pairs. Imagine that these things happened to you. Take turns to tell your partner, deduce what
might have happened, and sympathise with each other. Use the useful phrases below.
• Student A: You were on a bus yesterday. When That’s a shame. It could have been …
you got off, you checked your pocket/bag, and Never mind. He/She must be …
realised that your purse/wallet was missing! How awful. Someone might have …
What a pity. You should/shouldn’t
• Student B: A friend borrowed some money from
I’m really sorry. have …
you last week. Now, you need it back. You have
tried to phone and email your friend, but your 20
friend never answers!
TOTAL SCORE 70

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Name Class Date

SKILLS TEST 9 & 10

1 It’s possible that aliens are making the

3 Amanda thinks that farmers benefit from KARA – YESTERDAY

8 She thinks there is a special energy

SKILLS TEST 9 & 10

1 How much it costs to make a $0.01 coin.

2 How much it costs to make a $1 banknote.

3 The percentage of the world’s money that is coins and banknotes.

4 The number of trees used to make banknotes.

5 The number of countries which use plastic banknotes.

SKILLS TEST 9 & 10

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