Starting on a reality show like X Factor is great for a band because _________________.

Listen to the conversation and do the exercises to practise and improve your listening skills.

Are the sentences true or false?

Band auditions

Question 1. The boy wants to be in the band.

Question 2. He doesn't like singing.

Question 3. He can't remember the song on the guitar.

Question 4. The boy is good at the drums.

Question 5. The girl says she will call him the next day.

Rewrite the following sentences using the words given so that it means exactly the same as the first sentence.

Question 1. The gardener waters the flowers every evening.

=> The flowers ...........................................................................................................................................

Question 2. My nephew often flew a kite in this field when he was a child.

=> My nephew used ...................................................................................................................................

Question 3. I last saw my cousin two years ago.

=> I haven’t ................................................................................................................................................

Question 4. It is believed that the wanted man is living in New York.

=> The wanted man ...................................................................................................................................

Question 5. Her boyfriend forgot to take her to the movie theatre.

=> Her boyfriend didn’t remember...........................................................................................................

Question 6. He sang Sarah the whole song many times.

=> Sarah listened him ................................................................................................................................

Listen to the radio interview about boy bands and do the exercises to practise and improve your listening skills.

Choose the correct option to complete the sentences.

   The most important thing for boy bands in the past was that _________________.

The words to One Direction songs are designed to _________________.

One Direction's clothes _________________.

“Who……………..?” “…………………to get through to Misaki”

I ……………….one of my special desserts for dinner, if you like.

Mark is _________ with the volunteer work in this charity organization. He is not very ________ about getting a paid job next time.

Error identification.

  1) Roles (A) in homemaking (B) and breadwinning can share (C) by family members (D).

  2) It didn’t take (A) her much (B) time to do (C) the laundry because (D) she has a washing machine.

  3) I shall contact (A) you as soon as (B) they will phone (C) me (D).

Things have changed because _________________.

Read the passage and choose the best answer:

FOOD AROUND THE WORLD

It isn't amazing how much time we spend talking about food? "Have you ever eaten ...?", "What do you have for lunch?" and so on. And yet, when you travel from one county to another, you find that people have quite different feelings about food. People often feel that what they eat is normal, and what other people eat is strange and silly. In most parts of Asia, for example, no meal is complete without rice. In England, people eat potatoes every day. In the Middle East, bread is the main part of every meal. Eating becomes a habit which is difficult to change. Americans like to drink a lot of orange juice and coffee. The English drink tea four or five times a day. Australians drink large amounts of beer and the French drink wine every day.

The sorts of meat people like to eat also differ from one country to another. Horse meat is thought to be delicious in France. In Hong Kong, some people enjoy eating snakes. New Zealanders eat sheep, but never eat goat meat. The Japanese don’t like to eat sheep meat because of its smell, but they enjoy eating raw fish. So it seems that although eating is a topic that we can talk about for hours, there is a little common sense in what we say about it. People everywhere enjoy what they have always eaten, and there is very little we can do to change our eating habit.

 What is the main idea of the text?