LISTENING PART 1 ® ‘Questions 1-7 1 Woman: As it's your birthday, you can choose where we eat tonight. Your ddad suggested the burger placein town. Boy: ove it there and the food's great. | went with Tom's family fr his birthday last weekend, though. To be honest, 'm hapoy to stayin, havea pizza, and watcha film together Or we could go fora pienic by the river Woman: don't think the forecas's good for this evening. Boy: There's no point going ifit's going to rain Woman: geta couple of pizzas then. 2 ‘Boy: How was your morning? Girl: Of, thanks. lhad Mrs Elwood for science just before lunch and ‘we did an interesting experiment. You've gat her aftr the lunch break, haven't you? Boy: have. msure wouwere doing science, Girl: Oh, "ve got that next -| enjoy itthough, not tke you! 've gota nice afternoon, actually, as've got that and then music with Mr Willams. Boy Lucky you! Anyway, have a good afternoon. Girl: Thanks - you, too! 3 Gir How was your holiday? oy: It was good, actually, but 'm not sure my mum and dad enjoyed it asmuch as did, Gir: on? ye more exciting than the art class had when Boy: They still keep saying how much they missed swimmingin the sea ‘this year. The river vas pretty col, its tru, but there were very few people there compared to where we usually go it's hard to get tothe sea sometimes because there are so many people on the beach. Atleast we didn't go camping, which is what dad was suggesting atone point. 4 Boy: Have you spoken tothe teacher about the work experience we're doingnext month? Girt have. He suggested that as m good with my hands, Ishould try workingin a restaurant. oy: You'd be good at that Gil: Maybe, but my mum said that kind of work can be quite stressful Boyz You could come and work at ahairdresse's with me. Girt: think enjoy that, but probably not as much as learning how to fix ‘cars so that's what | put on my application in the end, Boy: Should be good. 5 oy: Ohh Jason, i's Hary. ve just gotten home and realised that 've left something at your place. You know the book we were working from for our homework -it was onthe desk in your bedroom, think the tablet ‘brought with memay.beJustunderneath it | thought about it when | Mss ® Questions 8-13 8 was getting ready to leave, but then| started showing you my new and |just forgot. Could you have a look, please, and bring it nto sc tomorrow? Thanks. 6 Girk Some ofthe paintings in that exhibition really weren't my kind thing. Boy: No. Ican't stand paintings that don't actually [ook tke what supposed to show. Like that tiger. 7 Woman: Listen everyone. We're going to have a tour of the town this temng bf we ont the casts tern. yu from the group, then ask: A there. as that’s where wel end up. OK, we'e gong to st of along ‘anal that goes behind the castle, You'll be able to see just how hight walls are, There are also quite afew brightly-coloured boats there t ‘people actually ive in. OX, let's go! PART 2 Girt HiFrankie, how was snowboarding? ‘Boy: The first few days were great! The snow was perfect and |was leaming some great new ticks Girt Don't tell me! You hit tree and had to stop. ‘Boy: That's what happens to some people, isntit-a broken leg. In my ‘ase, it was alot more boring. My stomach found ithard getting used the lo ‘Then my sister borrowed my board and managed to dropit from the sk lif. It didnt break, but we never got itback Girt Oh, no! 9 Boy: The new school library's great. Gir Everything being self-service takes abit of getting used to found {quite useful having someone thereto askif you couldn't find somethi Boy: True, but the new system works well Girt Ws prety quiet there, to. can't concentrate athome because of days lessons Boy: Good idea. Gir Yes, and ofcourse Id never have the books | needed because always forgot to get them before | went home, which isn'ta problem if stay, 10 Girt: lke that new clothes shop. AudioscriptsBoy: Me, too. The one | usually useissofar out of town, |hardly ever, gothere. Gir: Me, nether, and you have to get two diferent buses. Boy: The people who work atthe new shop couldn't be nicer. Gir The lady who served me was a bit miserable, actualy, but the others ‘seemed OK, I'snat too expensive either, Boy: Maybe i's because it's only just opened, but! found the range of styles they had was quite narrow. Girl think the other fin it of feenagers uw Gir What do you thinkof the new boy, Finnian? ‘oy He seems pretty cool to me. He certainly knows lots of jokes and Funny stories -we could hardly stop him talking at break time, not that we realy wanted him to. And he answered at least twice as many. ‘questions as | did during the maths class Girl You're really ood at maths too. Boy: Maybe ..b knew a lot about what we were ups inthe history class. | tried to get him to come to training for the school football team, but didn’t manage to persuade him. n ‘Boy: Has your brother gone away to college yet? Gir Yeah, he left yesterday. thought I'd be relieved not to have to listen to music coming from his bedroom all evening, [couldn't believeit en sal running down m rf his rnin n he wasn't at break Boy: | never knew you two were so close, Girl le weren't. You ust get used to someone being there, though, and sven they're suddenly nat, i's strange, eventhough | know he hasn’ fone hundreds of kilometres away like some students do. He'll probably beback most weekends. B “Gir Are you stil having tennis coaching? oy: Yes, but 'm progressing really slowly. The teacher wants me to learn tach skil well before we move onto the nest. Does your coach do that? Girt Pretty much, yes. ‘Boy: Even though | practise between the sessions with my family, 'm sure Id improve more quickly if someone showed mea few other shils ‘Thats wy need your help. When Lwatch you play, can se you doing. Joads of things Id like tobe able to do, but forget how you do them as ‘soonas gohome, PART3 Questions 14-19 Goad morning everyone. 'm going tel you about the schoo ip to he farm tomorrow. As told you lat week, you need to wat for the bus by the school gate 0 dont goto the bus stop or come straight into te playground like you usually do. The farms providing us all with nice packed lunch, so there's no need tobring one yourst a be great i'you could make sure you've gota dink though, as ican get quite hot onthe bus There are lots ofcifferent animals onthe farm. You'll going to have 0 at brushing the horses ust after we arrive there at about 9am iyater this, you lea what farmers give lambs teat, andyou' togive them their breakfast, too. _Aswell asthe animal, the farm has lots of activities students can take partin. We're going todo some climbing on the special wall they have there ater lunch, and maybe next time we can try one ofthe other ‘activities tke fishing or playing baseball, ‘We'llbe setting off back to school at about 3.30 p.m. and wl be back here at 4.15, so 45 minutes after the usual school finish time of 3.30. Please could you let your parents knows, especialy if they usually come to the school to pick you up. Ifyou or your parents wanttofind out more about the farm before we 0, you can vsittheir website and there's loads of information about there. il give you the website address: it's www dot caffertys dot farm dot com. ll spell that for you: it's -A-double F-E-R-TY.S dot farm dot com. 0K, see you all tomorrow. PART 4 Questions 20-25 ‘Man: Cariotta, you'e already a star hairdresser. What got you interested init? Carlotta: When | was a kd, watched friends getting haircuts and | remember thinking how complicated it seemed. One day. was watching nim: ‘This man was cutting someone's h iit wickly and madeit look. n't know why, butafter that, {00k rea] interest in it and inthe magazines I'd sometimes find around ‘ourhouse ‘Man: So who did you practise your hairdressing skills on first? Corot: My sister had this fantastic long har~it looked so nice, and | really wanted to cut, butof course my parents wouldn't let me. My dad vant ic cut really shor, so he let me have ago on hs bel went to his usual hairdresser's. My mum said it idn't look too bad, but stildidnt trust me to cuthers! ‘Mon: Later on, you studied haiedressing at college. What did your teachers say about you? Carlotta: hey recognised that the way cuthair was very natural, which they didn't want to change. didnt take ages thinking about ‘what | wanted to do, just did it. They reminded me that needed to. chatting - not ust in tomakeita social experience as well as a haircut ‘Man: You won the Young Hairdresser competition when you were eighteen, How did that feel? Carlota: felt good afterwards, ofcourse, but not during the competition. entered very late, so it seemed like 'd only just finished ‘eading what could and couldn't do when | was onstage. The person_ ‘whose hair was cutting kent moving, which was annoying, but knew my ideas gave mea chance of doing wel. ‘Man: At the moment, you work fora wellknown chain of hairdressing shops Carlotta: That's right. You might tink 'd get to cut the hair of loads of celebrities there, But none seem to.come nto the onel workin. Lget to, things, though, because our customers all want such original styles. never become rich working there, but it's been reat. ‘Mon: What do you plan to do next? Corot: My idea of starting a training centre didn’ get very far-it ‘was too complicated | want my own hairdressing shop, butin a re fashionable place than where | work now, so hopelly abro somewhere. ve found these great new skin creams and shampoos | can use there when do. ‘Mon: Thanks, Cartotal rests EEReading Part 1 1B 2C 3A 4C 5B Part 2 6F 7A 8G 9C WE Part 3 uC 2A BB MD 158 Pad WE 7G &C 19F 2B Pars 21D 2C BA MB A wD Part 6 27 for 28 much 29 since 30 one 31 are 32 be Writing Part 1 Quesion 1 Sampleanswer Hi Alex ‘Tha’ relly coo! that your parents are eting you choose which video game you want to buy asa birthday gif You should gee game where you have to keep solving puzaes to reach higher levels. never get bored of those. Like you I only geet play video games aftr Ive finished my homework and only for an hour on schooldays and fortwo hours at the weekend. Tim going camping with my family so I can come to your place this weekend. How about the following weekend? I'm fee in che aernoon. Bye for now, Jeny Comment “The emails clearly structured, and as appropriate opening and closing phrases. All pois are covered and the wrice makes suggestions and recommendations using tpic-elated vocabulary and a range of tenses, The tas i within che word lime (105 word). Part2 Question 2 ‘Sampleanowst ‘Alot of people enjoy shopping in their free time, but I'd rather do almost anything other than that! As you can tll, 'm noc a huge fan of shopping, but that doesst mean T neve go shopping. 2 In fact I go grocery shopping with my grandma nearly every week. 2 great way for us to spend some time together and I can help carry — any of her heavy bags. My parents usually buy most things chat we ‘ned in our local market. ‘My dad buys dhngs online because there is more choice, but mainly for his hobby. He ikes ordering sbing equipment on dhe internet. Comment ‘A good range of vocabulary has been used throughout the text to clearly communicate the writer’ views and opinions about the topic of shopping. The word length (108 words) i accepabl Question 3 j ‘Sample answer Jasmin as at an exhibition when she noticed something unusual. She ‘was looking a some extremely expensive necklaces that were once ‘worn by queens many centuries ago, when she noticed the man standing beside her. He was carrying a bag chat seemed to move. Then small monkey climbed out oft and the man quickly walked away. Jasmin saw the monkey hide under che display just as her parents insisted they move to another area ofthe exhibition, Thats when a loud alarm went off and Jasmin saw the monkey run right past her with a necdace in each hand! Comment ‘This isa good example of a story. There isa good range of tenses and a variety of vocabulary used ro describe the events. There are some: linking words which help with the low of the story: Icis coherent and with 103 words, ie does not exceed the word limit. Listening. Part 1 1A 2C 3B 4B 5C 6c 7B Part2 ac 9c Part 3 14 (schoo!) gate 15 drink 16 lambs 17 climbing (wall) 18 4.15 / four fifeen 19 CAFFERTYS Part 4 20 B 1B MA 2B BC 2A 2A 2BB WC 3C Practice Test Key