B1 Reading Preparation

B1 Reading Preparation

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Find the correct definition of each word.

Multiple Choice

You can do this quiz to find out if you are a good friends.

• True

• False

Poll

1 )You are at home on a Saturday afternoon when your friend phones you and

says he/she is in the town center and has spent all his/her money and feels

really ill. His/her family is away for the day.

• a )go as quickly as you can to help your friend, even though it will take a long time on

  the bus to get into town.

• b) tell your friend to find a taxi and come to your house. You think your parents will probably pay, but it might be very hard to find a taxi.

• c) recommend that your friend walks home. The fresh air will make your friend feel

  better.

Poll

2. Your friend has been having lots of problems with maths, but you find it easy. In a couple of weeks you have some important maths tests and your friend has asked you for some help. You ..

• a )sit down with your friend and organize some times for extra maths classes together; even though this will mean you have less time to study,

• b) show your friend some online videos which explain the important points and some questions with answers.

• C) tell your friend that he/she can copy from you in the math test; you'll make sure he/she can see your paper.

Poll

3 You and your friend are both interested in going out with the same person. You know your friend has really liked this person for a long time, but he/she seems to prefer you. You ...

• a )invite the person out with a group of people, then make sure your friend has a chance

• b) tell your friend that if he/she doesn't invite the person out, you will, even though you

  know he/she is too shy to make a move.

• c) ask the person out and don't tell your friend. All's fair in love and war!

Poll

4 Your friend has just completely changed his/her image: a new hairstyle in blue and red and new clothes in terrible colours. Now he/she wants you to go with him/her to get some tattoos and piercings done. You ...

• a) suggest that he/she thinks carefully before having a tattoo or piercing done-tattoos

  are very hard to remove if you change your mind.

• b )say that you'll go along with him/her for a laugh, but you don't want anything done

  yourself.

• c )tell him/her what you think of his/her new look (that it's awful), and that he/she should get professional advice before doing anything else.

Poll

Are you a good friend??

• no

• yes

• normal

Read the text and use no more than three words and/or a number to answer the questions.

Eyewitness account: Scott’s Hut

Brita Harding is a scientist and she's been in Antarctica for five weeks. She is working in a small building called Scott's Hut and helping to preserve it. The British explorer Captain Robert Scott used the but as a base camp in 1911.

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What job does Brita do?

The Antarctic is the driest, coldest and windiest continent in the world. It's dark for six months of the year and not many animals live here, apart from penguins. There are no native people like the Inuit, and tourists never stop off to explore. Its easy to understand why. It isn't the best place to live and work and it's freezing at the moment -we've had temperatures of -73°C since Monday!

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What animal can survive in Antarctica?

Every day, I go down to Ross Island and work in Scott's Hut with other scientists.

Inside there are books, wooden skis, biscuits, penguins' eggs and many other interesting

things. All these things have been here for a hundred years and they're completely frozen.

That's why we want to save the hut - it brings Scott's expedition to life!

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Where does Brita work every day?

The race to the South Pole is a famous story. Captain Scott and a Norwegian explorer called Roald Amundsen both wanted to get there first. They both prepared for many months, but in the end their expeditions were very different: Amundsen used dogs to pull his sleds and Scott used motorized sleds and horses.

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What animals were used in the explorers’ expedition?

Amundsen had good weather

during his expedition, but Scott had bad weather. When Scott's team set out from the but on 1 November 1911, there were terrible snow storms and the sleds broke down. After a few weeks, the horses died and most of his team turned back. In the end, only five men

carried on to the South Pole: Scott, Oates, Evans, Bowers and Wilson. 

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How many people wanted to reach the South Pole first?

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Eventually, how many people were able to continue to the South Pole?

Finish the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one,

beginning with the given words. 

Open Ended

1.

Not all people enjoy eating fish.

Not every ________________________________________.

Open Ended

2.

My school is quite near my house.

My house isn't very ________________________________.

Open Ended

3.

My English teacher is so helpful.

I have __________________________________________.

Open Ended

4.

My homework needs checking.

I need someone __________________________________

Open Ended

5.

My course is harder than I expected.

My course isn't as _________________________________.

Open Ended

6.

I haven't been to a concert for a long time.

It's a long time since_______________________________