APTIS LISTENING

1. Which present has the man bought?

A. A book
B. A pair of gloves
C. A scaft
2. Listening to the weather forecast. What will the weather be like tomorrow?
A. Sunny
B. Cloudy
C. Rainy
3. What time will the train arrive at the station?
A. At 10:00
B. At 9:30
C. At 10:30
4. How much will they pay to hire a car?
A. 100 pounds
B. 130 pounds
C. 110 pounds
5. What is the first program after the news?
A. A sport program
B. A documentary
C. A food program
6. A girl and her father talking are talking on the phone. How will the girl travel from airport?
A. By bus
B. By car
C. By train
7. Anna sends a message to her husband. Why is she going to be late?
A. Because of the traffic jams
B. The bus is delayed
C. There are road repairs
8. Listen to the conversation between a boy and a girl. What did the girl like best about her school
trip?
A. The farm
B. The museum
C. The ferry crossing
9. Listen to a police report on the news. What was stolen on Saturday?
A. A car
B. A gold necklace
C. A painting

10. Listen to the converstation between a man and a woman. What pet are they going to buy?
A. A dog
B. A cat
C. A fish
11. Listen to the conversation between Sally and Mark. Where has Sally been?
A. At the cafe
B. At the hospital
C. At school
12. Mrs Jackson receives a message from the travel agency. What time will the filght leave?
A. At 7:30
B. At 9:30
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13. A boy and a girl are talking about the sports center. Which sport will the boy do soon at the
center?
A. Diving
B. Sailing
C. Waterskiing
14. Four people are talking about their last holidays. Complete the sentences below.
Speaker A wanted to escape from his/her stressful life
Speaker B enjoyed his/her holidays alone
Speaker C found quiet places to relax
Speaker D thinks his/her holidays were quite expensive
Wanted to improve his/her speaking skills
Actually didn’t want to go on holidays
15. Listen to a man and a woman talking about their likes and dislikes. Read the statements below
and decide which opinion, the man, the woman, or both the man and the woman.
1. He/She does the washing up very frequently_________________________
2. Visiting relatives can be very enjoyable______________________________
3. He/She sees his/her family very often_______________________________
4. Cleaning the shoes is a task. He/She can’t stand_______________________

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16. Listen to a man talk at a lecture about his TV program on endangered animals and answer the
questions below.
1. What is his opinion about the children’s relationship to nature these days?
A. They don’t see animals as they really are
B. They don’t feel closer to nature
C. Living in a town or city can be an inconvenient
2. What is his opinion about how endangered animals should be seen?
A. Animals should thrill audiences in their natural world
B. Animals should engage the children’s interest
C. Animals must be seen froom a conservationist perspective.
17. Listen to a writer of crime novels at a lecture and answer the question below.
1. What is her opinion about the economic benefits of writing?
A. Writing a book ensures you economic reward
B. A good story is the key to success
C. There are better ways to get money
2. What is her opninion about the reasons to write?
A. The best reason is to feel motivated to tell a good story.
B. Writing is a matter of inspiration
C. The key is to master the genre you decide to write on.

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1. Which present has the man bought?
Is the book in this bag for mum then? I didn’t think she was particularly interested in flowers. I
thought she’d like it to give her some good ideas for the garden and even if she never reads it. It’s
got some lovely photos. I thought you were going to get those gloves. I showed you in that shop
last Saturday. They match the scarf I’ve bought her.
2. Listening to the weather forecast. What will the weather be like tomorrow?
Here’s the weather forecast for the next few days. We’ve got sunny skies at the moment but that’s
not going to last long by tomorrow it will be cloudy but it won’t actually rain till Saturday.
3. What time will the train arrive at the station?
Passengers waiting for the 10 o’clock train are advised that this running 30 minutes late. This is
due to strong winds which blew a tree onto the line at 3 o’clock this morning. We apologize for
the delay.
4. How much will they pay to hire a car?
You know we need to hire a car for a holiday. Well I got some prices from the internet. The
cheapest one is 110 pounds but it could be a bit small. There’s a bigger car for 130 pounds. We
paid about 100 pounds last year and the car was fine. I think we should get the cheaper one.
Okay I agree. Should I book it then? I can do it this afternoon if you give me the information.
5. What is the first program after the news?
Sports challenge with live football from northfield stadium will not be shown after the news as
advertised. The nature documentary dolphin watch will be shown instead. Sports challenge will
now be on tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock just after the food program cooks world. We would like
to apologize to viewers for this change to the program schedule.
6. A girl and her father talking are talking on the phone. How will the girl travel from airport?
Hi Dad. I’m at the airport. Oh I didn’t know you were arriving so early. Do you want me to come
and pick you up or can you get the bus? There’s no point you driving here. Because there’s train
living in 10 minutes so I’ll get that. It’s quicker than the bus. All right. See you later.
7. Anna sends a message to her husband. Why is she going to be late?
Hello It’s Anna here. I’m going to be a bit late back so you’ll probably get home before me. I’ve
been waiting at the bus stop for almost half an hour now and nothing has arrived yet. There
aren’t any traffic jams and the road repairs on the park street finished last week so I don’t know
why it’s taking so long hopefully there’ll be one soon anyhow I’ll see you later.
8. Listen to the conversation between a boy and a girl. What did the girl like best about her school
trip?
How was your school trip to france Louise? It was great. The weather was good so the ferry
crossing was fine. When we got there the teacher took us to a museum and she gave us some
worksheets to do. You went to a farm as well, didn’t you? Yes we did. They showed us how to
make goats cheese. I enjoyed that the most. I thought it was really interesting.
9. Listen to a police report on the news. What was stolen on Saturday?
Police have had reports of a couple running from the scene and driving off in a dark green car.
The woman was wearing an expensive gold necklace. They were both probably in their late
twenties. There is a reward for anybody with information leading to the return of the painting
which is worth at least fifty thousand pounds.
10. Listen to the converstation between a man and a woman. What pet are they going to buy?
I think we should get a pet. What do you think? A dog would be nice or a cat maybe? Dogs need
a lot of looking after and I’m not keen on cats. They make me sneeze. I’ve always liked the idea of
tropical fish. Well they need almost as much looking after as dogs but they look nice. So okay.
11. Listen to the conversation between Sally and Mark. Where has Sally been?
Sally Where have you been? I waited at the cafe for ages we were supposed to meet there hours
ago. Sorry Mark somebody from work had an accident and had to go to hospital. She was really
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 worried about her son so I offered to pick him up from school. I tried to call you but your mobile
was switched off.
12. Mrs Jackson receives a message from the travel agency. What time will the filght leave?
Mrs Jackson this is premiere travel. I’m just calling to tell you that your holiday tickets have
arrived and you can come and get them anytime. There’s one small change in flight time but it
simply means that your flight out to spain leaves at 9:30 am rather than 7:30. I thought you’d
probably pleased. Um it means checking in at 7:30 instead of 5:30. So you won’t be quite so
exhausted when you arrive call if you have any queries. Bye.
13. A boy and a girl are talking about the sports center. Which sport will the boy do soon at the
center?
Have you been to the new water sports center yet? Oh yes. It’s really brilliant. There are two
indoor pools one for underwater diving and one for swimming and you can also have sailing
lessons on the lake. That’s what I’m doing there weekend actuall I was hoping to take water
skiing lessons but the leaflet says they’re not starting those until next year.
14. Four people are talking about their last holidays. Complete the sentences below.
Speaker A: The resort was fantastic though I’d expected that from the reviews but it was the food
that just blew everyone else away. There was so much choice and it was all good what made it for
me though was the chance to just hang out with my mates chat catch up on things you’re usually
too busy for that. The shops were good too lots of bargains. There were loads of beaches to walk
along and other resorts to explore really quiet areas for when I wanted to get away from things
and relax which wasn’t often I would definitely go there again.
Speaker B: We stayed in a small resort but it was pretty easy to rent a car or take a bus to nearby
larger places though they were too far to walk to which was a shame my main aim in going there
was to get away from the stresses of student life and that was certainly what happened in fact it
couldn’t have been better. There was a lovely old town which had a great sense of history and we
all enjoyed wandering around in the evenings. I was even able to try out my primitive language
skills which I’d hope to do and I definitely got more confident.
Speaker C: I love traveling and I think it’s important to be able to communicate with people in
other countries. I often choose a place to go just that I can practice the language and this holiday
was perfect for that as I was on my own that had the double bonus of meaning I could do
whatever I wanted without asking anyone else go to galleries relax go swimming cycling. I
certainly got fitter but most importantly I had to talk to people in restaurants shops and so on. Of
course I learned a lot about their way of life as well and I didn’t miss my friends at all
Speaker D: My last holiday was cruise. I’d expected to hate being stuck with other people. I only
went because my friend wanted to try it. We visited lots of different ports and when we got off the
boat we sampled loads of exotic dishes and all the different restaurants. I think that’s what I look
back on now with the greatest pleasure. the pace of life on the boat was slow and literally which I
found frustrating but at least there was a gym on board so I was able to go running and
swimming every day. Everyone on the boat spoke English so my language skills didn’t improve
much.
15. Listen to a man and a woman talking about their likes and dislikes. Read the statements below
and decide which opinion, the man, the woman, or both the man and the woman.
Right let’s see jobs and duties where should we begin? Let’s talk about washing up first. Now
that’s something I really can’t stand . My mum makes me do it after every meal at the weekend
and she won’t let me go out with my friends until I’ve done it. I just think that’s so unfair I mean
none of my friends have to do it. I bet you don’t either do you no. You’re right. In fact no one in
my family does the most I have to do is get the plates out of the dishwasher. Oh lucky you I wish
we had one and what about cleaning shoes you have a machine to do that as as well I suppose.
Unfortunately not if it was left up to me I wouldn’t bother but my dad says that shoes tell you a lot
about a person so he has me brushing and polishing every other day it’s such a pain same here.
I’m not made to do it that often but I still dread having to do it. Right so that could be one of our
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 three what’s next. Well I honestly can’t understand why clothes shopping is there. That’s no jaw
for me I mean I could spend all day popping in and out of shops but going to buy food now that’s
completely different. I can’t bear doing either of them. In fact even talking about them makes me
feel funny. should we move on? Ok what do you feel about visiting relatives? Oh that’s not so
bad. I’ve got a pretty small family so it doesn’t happen that often and I get on really well with my
grandparents the ones that are still alive that is in fact one of my granddads is a real laugh and I
think he enjoys my company when I go to see him. Now that he’s on his own. How about you?
Well I suppose I’m a bit lazy really my parents both say I should go and see my grandparents
more often but they live so far away. I always make sure I’m in when they come to see us and they
come around quite a lot so I don’t feel as though I need to go and see them I don’t think my mum
and dad agree though.
16. Listen to a man talk at a lecture about his TV program on endangered animals and answer the
questions below.
Hi everyone it’s great to be here and have the chance to share with you what I do and why I feel
it’s so important. I’ve been passionate about animals and environment all my life to me it’s what
matters most. Although it was quite near a town I actually grew up on a small farm so I was
always surrounded by animals all sorts of differnt things ducks chickens horses. I used to milk the
goats before I went to school every morning and collect the eggs when I got home. I loved that.
but as I got order I realized how other people aren’t lucky enough to have this closeness to nature
particularly children brought up in cities who don’t really see animals in their natural state. I
also love adventure my favorite leisure activities include going rock climbing and hiking and
once I started traveling around the world to remote places like rain forests and deserts I got
completely hooked on the plight of endangered animals and ways of trying to save them when I
got the chance to audition as the presenter on a new children’s television program about
dangerous animals I jumoed at it although I think the best word for me to describe it is tough. I
love to be out there in the natural world so it was the perfect job for me. What makes it so
perfect? what’s crucial for me is that although we show lots of dangerous animals which engages
the children’s interest the strong message that runs through every program is conservation a
large proportion of the animals we film are on the endangered list and we’ve done endangered
animal special programs as well. It’s my responsibility to present the wider picture that goes
beyond just showing off a dangerous animal for the thrill of it.
17. Listen to a writer of crime novels at a lecture and answer the question below.
Hello I’m Kerry and it’s great to be here and share my experiences of writing crime novels with
you. I’ve been writing novels for 10 years now What do you imagine a writer’s life is like do I sit
hours in my own world waiting for inspiration to strike and then dash off words at furious rate
definitely not writing isn’t a random activity but a skill which in theory anyone can master but
reality is it’s hard work especially those times when your mind is completely empty just like your
computer screen that’s what’s generally known as writer’s block but I like to call it a nightmare
so now I’d like to pass on a few tips that help me along the way before deciding to write a book
think about why you want to do it? some people expect huge financial rewards but there are no
guarantees of success and there are safer ways to make your fortune others want to be famous so
you must identify your own motivation first I believed that people wanted to read what I had to
say and I could tell a good story. that sounds like the best reason but it may not be enough to keep
everyone going in difficult times. simply wanting to do it is not enough you have to know how to
write for the market. Crime is the number one best selling genre in the world and you must do
your research I spent ages finding out about the way various police departments work their
systems ans so on identify what readers want.

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