LISTENING: Listen to a radio programme about body language. Complete the sentences with ONE WORD OR A NUMBER ONLY. You can listen TWICE.

VOCABULARY – COMPOUND NOUNS: Choose the correct word to complete the sentence. Write a, b, or c in the blanks.

VOCABULARY – WAY OF SPEAKING: Complete the sentences using the correct preposition on, of, about, against. Write none when there is no preposition. 

VOCABULARY – Cliché: Match the meaning of these clichés to their correct definition. Write a-e in the blanks. There are more definitions than needed.

GRAMMAR – NOUN PHRASES: Correct the mistake of the underlined word in each sentence.

GRAMMAR – REPORTED SPEECH: Complete the reported speech. Make any necessary changes.

READING: Read the article. Write true (T) or false (F) in the blanks.

Love and Hate in Chapel Lane

The black motorbike rolled rapidly over the railway crossing and disappeared from view. Harriet Wilkins ran and ran after it, screaming and yelling at the youngsters to stop.
She kept running until she ran out of breath and had to stop, sweating and weeping in desperation. She stared at the railway crossing. Helplessness stung in her throat. ‘The police,’ she thought suddenly, ‘I should call the police!’
She reached into her pocket for her mobile. ‘I’m not thinking straight,’ she realized. ‘What am I going to tell them? That my Juliet fell in love? She’s 19 now. She doesn’t need my permission to get married.’ Harriet felt defeated. Totally defeated.

She found it unbelievable that she’d lost her cherished daughter to the man her family loathed most in the world. ‘Why a Jackson?’ The Wilkins could never see eye to eye with the Jacksons. Their warring families had been living next door to each other and had hated each other for so long that no one could remember how their feud had started. But none of them wanted to give up fighting.

On one occasion, a Wilkins – it was Harriet’s father-in-law, actually –  even broke into the Jacksons’ house to steal their new stereo. As he was standing in the other family’s living room in the pitch-black darkness, he changed his mind. He went out the way he’d come in, through the kitchen window that had been left open. The Jacksons were sleeping upstairs – they never noticed a thing. ‘I felt so angry with myself,’ Harriet’s father-in-law said later. ‘I should have gone through with  it. If they’d been in my place, they wouldn’t have hesitated.’

The two young people met only three months ago at a fancy-dress party at the local college. Despite her parents’ opposition to the relationship, Juliet Wilkins started seeing Ronnie Jackson regularly. When her mother heard the terrible news and tried to confront Juliet about it, she just said she was in love. Harriet told Juliet that she didn’t know what love was, and said, ‘Sure, Ronnie’s good-looking and always well-dressed, but he’s so badly-behaved, so rude. He’s not good enough for you – and he’s a Jackson!’

‘Juliet used to be such a good girl, so responsible and mature,’ Harriet thought now. ‘She had a good future ahead of her. She could have married any man she wanted. I can’t believe she would run away with him. It’s completely out of character. I’m sure she’ll never find happiness now!’