❏ LISTENING - PART 1

You will hear people talking in eight different situations. For questions (1-8) choose
the best answer ( A,B or C)
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1) You hear two students talking about their first geography class of the year.
How do they both feel?

A. optimistic about how the classes will develop over the term
B. concerned that it was more difficult than they’d expected
C. satisfied that they’d learnt some valuable information

2) You hear a boy telling a friend about buying some food for wild birds.
What is he aiming to do?

A. attract one particular species of bird

B. keep the local birds alive during the winter
C. monitor the range of wild birds that visit his garden

3) You hear a girl telling a friend about a spelling competition she won.
What does she say about it?

A. She took some time to find a strategy that worked for her.
B. She found that her good visual memory helped her the most.
C. She wasn’t concerned by the level of level of the other competitors.

4 ) You hear a technology teacher telling her students about the model cars they are
going to make. What does she warn them about?

A. being inaccurate as they develop their model

B. choosing a car that’s too complicated for them to make
C. finding they need tools that the school doesn’t currently have
5) You hear a boy talking to his sister about a sweatshirt he bought recently.
Why is he unhappy with it?

A. He’s worried it may already have gone out of fashion.

B. He feels it’s poor quality for the price he paid.
C. He thinks the colour doesn’t suit him at all.

6) You hear a school football coach talking to his team about avoiding injuries.
What does he propose for this season?

A. checking players drink enough fluids before training and matches

B. improving the exercises at the start of their training sessions.
C. making a specific type of training a regular event

7) You hear a girl talking to her friend about a building she’s just visited.
Why is she telling her about it?

A. to recommend it as somewhere worth visiting

B. to confirm that his opinion about it was correct
C. to explain why she decided to go there

8) You hear a boy leaving a phone message for a friend about a family camping holiday.
What does he say about the holiday?

A. They feel inspired to repeat the experience.

B. They managed to make the best of a bad situation.
C. They were disappointed after all their preparation.
 ❏ LISTENING - PART 2

You will hear a girl called Anna giving a presentation about the fashion blog that she’s
created. For questions 9–18, complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.
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Anna – fashion blogger

After Anna was featured in a (9).............................................. , she had more people visiting
her blog.

Anna now has a (10).................................................................. to help her develop the blog.

When choosing clothes for her blog, the (11)................................................. of Anna’s

readersis the most important point she considers.

Anna thinks teenagers are likely to spend more on (12).................................................. than

onother items of clothing.

Anna prefers buying her own clothes from (13)....................................... rather than other
places.

The historical period that’s given Anna the greatest inspiration for her blog is the
(14)............................................................ .

Clothes with (15)...................................... on them recently attracted attention to Anna’s blog.

Anna mainly promotes clothes made of materials such as (16)....................................... on

her blog.

Among the things Anna has made herself, people have showed most interest in her
(17).....................................................

Anna was pleased that visitors to the blog have described it as being
(18)......................................
 ❏ LISTENING - PART 3

You will hear five short extracts in which teenagers are talking about finding a
valuable object by chance. For questions 19–23, choose from the list (A–h) what each
speaker says about the experience.
Use the letters only once. There are three extra letters which you do not need to use.
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A. It led a new interest for me

B. I managed to return it to its owner Speaker 1 …… (19)

C. I made a dissapointing discovery about it Speaker 2………(20)

D. I helped to prevent it from getting lost again Speaker 3………(21)

E. I was tempted to keep it Speaker 4…….. (22)

F. It helped me to achieve what I’d always wanted

G. It gave me an idea for an invention Speaker 5……...(23)

H. I was given a cash reward

 ❏ LISTENING - PART 4

You will hear an interview with a student called John Benton, who’s just completed a
25-kilometre running race. For questions 24–30, choose the best answer (A, B or C).
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24 ) Why did John decide to enter the race?

A. He was encouraged by his father to take part.
B. He wanted to prove his friends wrong.
C. He was inspired by a celebrity’s achievements.

25) One feature of John’s training before the event was to

A. get some rest between training sessions.
B. leave himself enough time to build up his fitness.
C. set targets that he felt were realistic.

26) John says that once he started training, he had difficulties

A. fitting it in around his usual school schedule.
B. finding time for leisure activities after school.
C. making himself run in cold weather before school.

27) What does John say about his diet before the race?
A. decided not to follow a very strict diet.
B. left it almost too late to adopt a suitable diet.
C. was unwilling to give up his favourite foods.

28) What particularly encouraged John on the day of the race?

A. The atmosphere was much more positive than he’d expected.
B. People he’d never met before were wishing him well.
C. Some people in the crowd were there to support him personally.

29) One strategy John used to keep himself going was to

A. maintain a fairly even running speed throughout the race.
B. ignore any negative thoughts about failure.
C. keep in mind the finishing time he wanted to achieve.

30) Immediately after John finished the race, he

A. was almost too tired to notice people congratulating him.
B. promised himself he would never attempt another one.
C. celebrated his achievements with friends.
 ❏ USE OF ENGLISH - PART 1

For questions 1–8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each
gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Example:

0 ​A knowledgeable B aware C familiar D awake

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England National Girl’s football week
by Ami King,16

As most people are probably ​(0)........... ​, there is little doubt that

football is England’s most popular sport. However, most people
don’t realise that the number of boys and men playing the game is
currently in ​(1)............ . But I’m proud to say that the same is not
(2)................ of the girls’ and women’s game – in fact, far from it.
In April 2015, Girls’ Football Week ​(3) ………...​no less than
22,000 girl players. Over 200 schools across England took part in
the
(4)..................​ .
At the following Girls’ Football Week in October 2016, the focus was more about
(5)............... participation in women’s football across the country’s colleges and universities.
Again, the event seems to have been a ​(6)............ success. At the last ​(7)............... ​, nearly
three million girls and women were registered as football players, which is fantastic to hear.
But what is the best news of all? My school has just ​(8).............. plans to set up a girls’
football team next term. I will definitely be signing up!

1​ ​A ​fall ​B​ decline ​C​ decrease ​D​ reduction

2​ ​ A​ real ​B ​right ​C​ actual ​D​ true

3​ ​A​ attracted ​B​ pulled ​ ​engaged

C ​D​ brought

4​ ​A ​experience ​B​ act ​C​ event ​D ​development

5​ ​A​ stretching ​ B​ adding ​ ​ increasing

C ​D ​enhancing

6​ ​A​ great ​B​ good ​C​ high ​D​ strong

7​ ​A​ statistic ​ B​ number ​C​ quantity ​D​ count

8​ ​A​ said ​B​ announced ​C​ told ​D​ advised

 ❏ USE OF ENGLISH - PART 2

For questions 9–16, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use
only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Example:

0 H A D

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Manatees

I have to admit that until I went to Florida in the USA, I don’t think I ​(0)............. ever heard of
manatees. They are large mammals which live in sea water and are also known
(9)................... ‘sea cows’. This is partly due ​(10)............... their cow-like appearance, and
also because of their diet. They are vegetarians who live ​(11)................ weeds and grass
that they find under water. In fact, they can eat as ​(12)................ as 50 kg of this in a day.
The adult manatees weigh up to 590 kg.

Manatee populations have been suffering recently; in fact conservationists were

(13)................. concerned that they have declared the manatee an endangered species.
When I went to see these animals in the wild, (14)................... amazed me was their
appearance. Their lips have left and right sides, which can move independently of
(15) …………​another. Manatees are slow and graceful in the water, which, ​(16)................
me, was an incredible sight to see.
 ❏ USE OF ENGLISH - PART 3

For questions 17–24, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some
of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the
beginning (0).

Example:

0 I N I T I A L L Y

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 ❏ USE OF ENGLISH - PART 4

For questions 25–30, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the
first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between
two and five words, including the word given.

Example:

0 ​ I haven’t see you for ages

​ TIME
​It has ……………… I saw you!

The gap can be filled by the words ‘been a long time since’, so you write:

0 BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE

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 READING AND USE OF ENGLISH - PART 5

You are going to read an article about a list of books for teenage readers. For questions
31–36, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.

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World Book Day – the best teen reads
by Genny Haslett, 24, English literature teacher at Bathampton Secondary School

It is often suggested that teachers and librarians aren’t pushing secondary school
readers towards titles that challenge them enough, and so the organisers of World
Book Day has announced a list which might provide some inspiration for anyone who’s stuck
for ideas. This list of popular books for young adults, voted for by 10,000 people across the
UK, features a top 10 to ‘shape and inspire’ teenagers, and handle some of the challenges
of adolescence.

All but one of the books have already been made into films, demonstrating that when
a book makes it to the big screen, it often then acquires more readers thanks to the film’s
success. Of course, this isn’t always the case, as with George Orwell’s 1984, where the
rather mediocre film does not compare so favourably with the book’s ability to conjure up a
dark vision of life in a police state.

James Bowen’s A Streetcat Named Bob, published in 2012, is one of the few
relatively contemporary books here. It’s also certainly for me the least predictable member of
the list,
but its extended stay on the bestseller list earned it – and its author – a devoted following. It
is the touching story of Bob, the cat who helped a homeless man called James get his life
back on track. Bob sits on James’s shoulder and sleeps at his feet while he plays the guitar
on the street, and soon becomes the centre of attention. What makes the story particularly
powerful is that it is based on author James Bowen’s real life.

Also on the list are J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books. In this case it’s actually the
whole series rather than one particular title that makes the shortlist. Perhaps the judges
struggled to agree which one book to pick. For me, the books are rather more pre-teen than
the rest of the books on the list, which are aimed at a more mature readership. But Harry
Potter is a special case: as Harry gets older in each successive book in the series, the
stories do become more complex and darker.
 In a way, readers themselves grow up with Harry and his friends. Rowling asks some
tough questions about standing up to authority, challenging ‘normal’ views and many other
subjects close to teenage readers’ hearts. This should get rid of the idea that the whole
series is just for young kids. In actual fact, half of all Harry Potter readers are over the age of
35, but that’s another story.

The list goes right back to the nineteenth century with Charlotte Brontë’s great
romance Jane Eyre, showing that some books never grow old, though the majority are
twentieth-century works such as Anne Frank’s heartbreaking wartime memoir The Diary of a
Young Girl, which even now I find hard to get through without shedding tears. Personally, I
would have swapped J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings for one of the many classics
that didn’t make the final selection, Lord of the Flies perhaps, William Golding’s nightmare
vision of schoolboys stuck on an island.

Of course there’ll always be some choices we don’t agree with, but that’s what I think
makes a list like this so fascinating. I’ve been using it with my class of 16-year-olds, and I got
them to evaluate it and make other suggestions for what to include or how it could be
changed. But what I hope can really make a lasting difference is if it stimulates them to try
out writers on the list, perhaps ones they haven’t come across before, and be introduced to
new styles of writing.

31) What criticism does the writer make in the first paragraph?

A. World Book Day has been poorly organised.

B. School librarians aren’t working hard enough.
C. Teenagers are reading books that are too easy.
D. Teachers don’t encourage pupils to read enough.

32) What point is made about books which are made into films?

A. The best books tend to be made into films.

B. The film of a book makes more people read the book.
C. Many people prefer to watch a film than read the book.
D. It is useful to be able to compare the book and the film.

33) What does the writer suggest about A Streetcat Named Bob?

A. She is surprised that it is on the list.

B. The book did not sell as well as it deserved to.
C. It is the most recently published book on the list.
D. It is the only autobiography on the list.
34) How does the writer justify the presence of the Harry Potter books on the list?

A. The books’ fame can help the list get more attention.
B. The later books in the series are more suitable for teenagers.
C. Teenagers should read books that they will also enjoy as adults.
D. It makes sense to have a whole series as well as individual books.

35) Which book does the writer feel shouldn’t be on the list?

A. Jane Eyre
B. The Diary of a Young Girl
C. The Lord of the Rings
D. Lord of the Flies

36) What does the writer intend to do?

A. be more fully developed in future

B. prompt pupils to read more widely
C. enable pupils to write more effectively
D. provide a useful topic for discussion in class

❏ READING AND USE OF ENGLISH - PART 6

You are going to read an article about an unusual school in Germany, where the pupils have
a great deal of freedom. Six sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from
the sentences A–G the one which fits each gap (37–42). There is one extra sentence which
you do not need to use.
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open-air teaching In Germany

A bold experiment in education that aims to help young students become independent
thinkers

In 2013, Wolfgang Schwarz became Assistant Headteacher at a Hamburg school. It was a

conventional school: teachers taught lessons that pupils had to attend, and set compulsory
homework for pupils. The school taught all the usual subjects from English to maths. The
Senior Management team told the teachers what to do, and the teachers told the pupils what
to do.

Shortly after this, Schwarz read an article about openairschools, whose aim is to encourage
children to be more independent and develop important life skills in a natural setting.
(37)....................... This is in contrast to more traditional schools like where Schwarz was
working, where (according to critics) the focus is too much on the teaching and learning of
factual information, and where children aren’t given enough opportunity to learn how to think
for themselves. They maintain the physical limitations of the classroom stop students
learning naturally. Learning outside, in a forest or on a beach encourages students to think
more about the world around them.

However, there were only a small number of outdoor schools across Germany.
(38) ………………... In 2014, that is exactly what he did, and the Hamburg Outdoor School
was born. With four teachers and 42 children aged between 4 and 18, Schwarz’s school had
a small building set in large grounds near a beach and private forest. Now they use the
areas outside the school more than the old classrooms. Most lessons take place outside.

What actually makes it an ’outdoor’ school? How does it work in practice?

(39).......................... There are no tests and no homework you have to do, although some
parents have, additionally, set their children academic tasks to complete away from school.

The curriculum is certainly not conventional. (40)..................... Last year, the students
sampled more than 80 different subjects, learning some maths, history and physics in the
process.

And some of the teaching is done by the students themselves, such as a course on geology,
taught by 13-year-old Dieter Altmann, which has become one of the most popular at the
school. Other subjects range from juggling to fishing techniques.

However, student independence isn’t just limited as to how the children actually do their
learning. (41)......................... At these sessions, anything can be discussed, ranging
from discipline issues to deciding who should be allowed to start at the school. Everyone,
from the youngest child to the school Headteacher, has an equal vote in all this.

All decisions are made democratically, so the teachers can be outvoted by the children
theoretically; this is something which does happen from time to time. The key question is
this: does a school with optional lessons and student-led courses on juggling really provide
students with the best start in life? (42).................. Accepting that students in normal schools
may become better at certain skills, he maintains that children can learn facts much better in
a natural environment through experimentation and observation. ‘If you learn out of the
classroom in the natural world, it makes learning more meaningful and memorable’.
 ❏ READING AND USE OF ENGLISH - PART 7

You are going to read an article about four teenagers who have started their own business.
For questions 43–52, choose from the teenagers (A–D). The teenagers may be chosen
more than once.
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A Rebecca Dundee, 16
I suppose it was obvious I had a head for business when I was about six. I used to make my
parents cups of tea in the morning – and charge them 20p for each one. And it was another
20p if it needed reheating. And then about a year ago I was in a chain coffee shop waiting in
line to get my drink, and I just realised how dreadful the whole experience was – dirty tables,
rubbish WiFi and grumpy staff. And I thought ‘I bet I could do better than that’. So a friend
and I launched an app enabling people to access menus, order and interact with each other.
Since then I haven’t looked back. I was concerned that I wasn’t doing too well at school,
which was a bit depressing, but with the business going so well, it feels great to be where I
am now.

B Jimbo, 15
When people ask what I do, I tell them I advise people about their brand on social media.
They can’t believe I’m doing this while I’m so young. But I love it. The tricky bit is getting
everything done that I need to; sometimes there aren’t enough hours in the day! I’ve been
doing the job about six months, and it took quite a lot of effort at the start to persuade my
mum and dad that it wasn’t just a waste of time. But now they’re confident I’m doing OK.
Which is just as well, because now that I’ve launched an online magazine, I should have
several more projects on the way, as long as I can get the money together. One’s going to be
setting up a firm with my best mate – it should start to do quite well after about a year. So
watch this space!

C Sarah McFinny, 18
Using social media comes naturally to me, and it’s not something I’ve ever had to try to get
my head around. I’m in my first year at uni, and I was lending a hand to someone who
wanted to organise a social media campaign for a university sports club. I did lots of work for
her, setting it up and publicising it, and she couldn’t believe the results I got. It was amazing!
So I thought, ‘You know what – I could make some money out of doing this sort of thing’.
When I’m talking to clients, obviously I don’t shout about my age, I mean you want to be
taken seriously. When I graduate, I want to help my parents run their business, or at least do
that part-time. I’m excited about the future.

D Duncan Jackson, 15
Well, I’ve never liked spending money, even at a really young age. But now that I’ve worked
out how to make money, I’m really driven to get out of bed every morning and make as much
as I can. I basically run an online shop, and I’ve had over 100 customers so far. It’s always
nice when a customer visits the store and buys from you again – you know you’re doing
something right. I don’t always get things right though. In fact, there are lots of things I’ve got
very wrong, like setting my prices too high – or too low! But that can be useful, because
when something doesn’t go as planned, you can always adapt and i hope you do it better
next time.
WRITING
Part 1