1.
Complete the sentences with one word in each gap. You can see the first letter of each word.
0 I’d like to be on a quiz programme. The questions are usually quite easy.
1 I don’t know this DJ. What s___________ are we listening to?
2 You can make phone calls through the internet if you d___________ special software.
3 If you’re going to the n___________, will you buy me a newspaper, please?
4 I like looking at the r___________ letters in the newspaper. Some people write quite often.
5 I always watch the l___________ news because I like to know what’s happening where I live.
6 Private Eye is a famous magazine in Britain. It was first p___________ in 1962.
2.
Coronation Street
Coronation Street is the oldest television (0) _________ in Britain. It started in 1960 and is still very popular today. It is about a street in Manchester with very normal people living in it. It has the usual stories: people (1) _________ each other and (2) _________ with each other. Sometimes they get (3) _________ and usually, they are unhappy. It’s very famous and there have been
(4) _________ made about it, looking at the actors and the writers who have worked on the programme. There are tours of the street and it (5) _________ been written about in
(6) _________ newspapers as well as tabloids.
0 a) soap opera b) reality c) documentary
1 a) go up with b) go in with c) go out with
2 a) split up b) split off c) split out
3 a) marry b) wedding c) married
4 a) reality TV shows b) documentaries c) headlines
5 a) was b) has c) is
6 a) gossip b) big c) quality
3.
Complete the text with one word in each gap.
In Britain, you could always see how good a newspaper was by its size. The (0) tabloid papers were small, the bigger papers were ‘better’ and more serious. (1) ______________, things have changed and now some of the quality papers are getting smaller. The Times has
(2) ______________ been a tabloid (3) ______________ three years and The Guardian has been published in a new size – Berliner – (4) ______________ 2005. (5) ______________ these changes in size changed the quality of the newspapers? Some people think that they have but others say that these newspapers are still as good as they have always been. Now, the only national daily paper in England which hasn’t changed its broadsheet size (6) ______________
is the Daily Telegraph. When will that change?
4.
Circle the correct answer.
0 You’ve drunk / drank too much cola and now you feel sick.
1 Has she decided what to eat? No, she didn’t / hasn’t.
2 Mrs Pierce has gave / given her class a surprise test.
3 How far you have / have you driven?
4 Wait a minute. I’ve just / already woken up and I’m still half asleep.
5 He’s took / taken two exams but only passed one.
6 Have you thought about my idea?
Yes, I have / did.
7 Have I seen / saw you somewhere before?
8 We haven’t had / didn’t have many sunny days this year.
Daje naj.
1.
1. species (?)
2. download
3. newspaper's
4. random (?)
5. local
6. published
2.
0. a
1. c
2. a
3. c
4. a
5. b
6. a
3.
1. once/suddenly
2. always
3 been
4. since
5 all
4.
0. drunk
1. hasn't
3. given
4. have you
5. just
6. taken
7. have
8. seen
9. didn't have