FCE - PET B1 Class Activities
FCE - PET B1 Class Activities
FCE - PET B1 Class Activities
FCE
2014
By Ayhan Dinc
PART I: READING
A) Read the text and answer the
questions.
16-year-old joins F1 team as race
driver
In most countries around the world, 16-year-olds have to wait for another
two years to be able to drive a car. Not so for 16-year-old Max Verstappen.
He has just been signed up to drive for a Formula 1 racing team. He will
become the youngest ever F1 driver when he races for the Toro Rosso
team next year. He will be 17 when he takes part in his first
Grand Prix, alongside drivers like Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and
Sebastian Vettel. The current record for the youngest F1 driver is 19 years
and 125 days. Verstappen will make his debut at the Australian Grand Prix.
He told reporters: "Ever since I was seven years old, Formula 1 has been
my career goal, so this opportunity is truly a dream come true." The Toro
Rosso team boss Franz Tost was very enthusiastic about Max signing for
his team. He said: "We are happy to welcome Max into the
Toro Rosso family. We consider Max to be one of the most skilled young
drivers of the new generation and we believe he has the necessary
maturity and mental strength to take on this challenge successfully." He
added: "It will now be up to us to provide Max with a competitive car,
which will enable him to have the best possible start to his Formula 1
career." Max is the son of the former F1 driver Jos Verstappen. He said
he owed a lot of his success to his father, saying: "First of all a big thanks
to my father, who has always been by my side, day and night, year after
year."
a) 20
a) enthusiastic
b) 18
b) good
c) 17
c) positive
d) 16
d) optimistic
joining?
a) great eyesight
a) Renault
b) big muscles
b) Mercedes
c) mental strength
c) Ferrari
d) courage
d) Toro Rosso
Max?
a) Australia
a) a competitive car
b) Hungary
b) a big bonus
c) Singapore
c) a special uniform
d) Bahrain
4. When did Max first want to be a
racing
driver?
a) F1 driver
b) in 2008
b) engineer
c) when he was 7
d)
when
Schumacher
he
met
Michael
c) airplane pilot
d) sports reporter
10. Where did Max say his father
had
a) a promise
always been?
b) his dream
a) in other countries
c) a prediction
b) at work
d) reality
c) in a race car
d) by his side
1. countries
____
a. head
2. another
____
b. next to
3. alongside
4. debut
5. opportunity
6. boss
____
____
____
____
c. profession
d. chance
e. equip
f. nations
7. consider
____
g. ex-
8. provide
____
h. introduction
9. career
____
i. believe
10. former
____
j. a further
C) Read the text and answer the True / False questions. (T-True / FFalse / NM-Not mentioned)
T / F/NM
T / F/NM
and 25 days.
T / F/NM
4. Max wanted to enter Formula 1 when he was seven years old.
T / F/NM
T/
T/
T / F/NM
T/
T / F/NM
T/
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