School: ________________________________

English Listening Test 11th Form Level VII

Student: __________________________________Class: 11th ___________________Date: ___/___/___
Teacher: _________________________________ Mark: _____ Parents Signature: _________

Before you begin:

Read all the questions carefully.
Check that you have answered all the questions.
If you do not know the answer to a question, move on and come back to it at the end.
Re-read your work once you have finished and look out for any silly mistakes.

Sir David Attenborough

1 Tick the topics from Attenboroughs biography that are mentioned in the audio text.

(15 marks)

a. Davids documentaries for BBC.

b. His love for nature as a child.
c. His university studies at Cambridge.
d. His accident during WW2.
e. Attenboroughs TV series about environmental matters.
f. His service in the British Navy from 1947 to 1949.

2 Complete the gaps according to the audio text.

(15 marks)

In 1947 he was called up for a. ___________ service in the Royal Navy and spent two
b. ___________ stationed in North Wales and the Firth of Forth. In c. ___________ Attenborough
married Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Oriel; the marriage lasted until her d. ___________ in 1997. The
couple had two children, Robert and Susan. Robert is a senior e. ___________ in Bioanthropology
for the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra.