STANDARD LEVEL
Listening
1 1 New York 6 quiet
2 Chaves 7 exciting
3 modern 8 100
4 dangerous 9 trains
5 expensive 10 buses
Vocabulary
2 1 restaurant 4 Parks
2 flat 5 factories
3 library 6 internet café
3 1 pretty 4 dirty
2 dangerous 5 quiet
3 unfriendly 6 modern
4 1 school … friendly
2 office … ugly
3 centre … modern
4 station … noisy
Grammar
5 1 There are one or two cafés.
2 There is a school.
3 There aren’t any factories.
4 There are a lot of flats.
5 There isn’t an office.
6 There are loads of shops.
7 There aren’t any pretty buildings.
6 1 Is there a hospital? Yes, there is.
2 Are there any old buildings? No, there aren’t.
3 Are there any schools? Yes, there are.
4 Are there any flats? No, there aren’t.
5 Is there a park? No, there isn’t.
6 Are there any good films at the cinema?
Yes, there are.
7 1 Paris is prettier than London.
2 The town is safer than the city.
3 The sports centre is more interesting than the
shopping centre.
4 The café is better than the restaurant.
5 The library is more modern than the library.
6 The weather near the coast is worse than the
weather in the city.
7 Your town is bigger than my town.
8 French is easier than English.
8 1 on … bus
2 by … plane
3 on … coach
4 on … foot
Reading
9 Suggested answers:
1 No, the Mall is bigger than European shopping centres.
2 The Mall is very popular, because there are 40 million visitors a year.
3 Because it has got lots of fish and dangerous animals.
4 It’s about thirty minutes by train.
5 Beth and her family live in Minneapolis. They like shopping and they really like the Mall.
BASIC LEVEL TEST
Unit 2 test
Listening
1 New York
2 1 C 3 N 5 N 7 C
2 C 4 C 6 N 8 N
Vocabulary
3 1 station 3 café
2 centre 4 centre
4 1 cinema 4 library
2 school 5 factory
3 restaurant 6 hospital
5 1 pretty – ugly 4 clean – dirty
2 modern – old 5 quiet – noisy
3 dangerous – safe
Grammar
6 1 isn’t 3 aren’t 5 are
2 is 4 are 6 isn’t
7 1 Are there 4 Are there
2 Is there 5 Is there
3 Is there 6 Are there
8 1 more exciting 4 better
2 prettier 5 bigger
3 more dangerous
9 1 safer 3 more interesting
2 more difficult 4 worse
10 1 by 2 on 3 by 4 on
Reading
11 1 False 3 True 5 True
2 False 4 True
Writing
12 1 This is big a big city.
2 This is a nice place nice.
3 There are some interesting museums interesting here.
4 This is a dangerous really dangerous street.
5 The quiet park is a very quiet place.
