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Listening Practice Test 1

There are 25 questions.
You have 20 minutes.
You will need a pen or pencil and
some coloured pencils or pens.
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Part 1

– 5 questions –
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Listen and draw lines. There is one example.

Richard Katy Harry William

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Sarah George Emma

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– 5 questions –

  Listening
Listen and write. There is one example.

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Grandfather’s job

Grandfather’s first job: fire fighter

he was a .........................

1 Town where he worked: .............................................


2 The first thing he had to do: find a ..................................

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3 What he liked wearing most: his .......................................


4 Number of people in his team: .............................................


5 Why he enjoyed this job: it was ..................................

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Part 3

– 5 questions –
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Aunt Betty is talking about some of her things. Where is each

thing now?

Listen and write a letter in each box. There is one example.

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chess B

crown

violin

sunglasses

diary
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necklace

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Part 4

– 5 questions –
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Listen and tick (✓) the box. There is one example.

Who phoned Michael today?

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A B ✓ C

1 What will Michael go and see?

A B C
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2 Which station will Michael arrive at?

A B C

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3 When must Michael be ready to go?

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A B C

4 Where will Michael have his lunch?

A B C
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5 What does Michael want to buy?

A B C

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Part 5

– 5 questions –
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Listen and colour and write. There is one example.

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Reading and Writing Practice Test 1

There are 44 questions.
You have 40 minutes.
You will need a pen or a pencil.
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– 10 questions –
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Look and read. Choose the correct words and write them on the lines.
There is one example.

a chemist a restaurant a comb an octopus

  Reading and Writing

You buy this in a post office and put

it on an envelope before you send it.
a stamp
..............
1 People work to make many kinds
a key of things in this place, for example .............. a hotel
fridges or cookers.
2 This strange animal has eight arms
..............
but no legs and lives in the sea.

3 When you go on holiday, you may

..............
stay in one of these places.
a camel 4 You use these to cut things like a castle
paper or card when you want to ..............
make a model of something.
5 This animal carries a large shell on its
..............
back and walks very slowly.
6 This is usually made of metal. You
might need it to open a door or ..............
start the engine of a car. scissors
an eagle
7 If you go to the zoo, you might see ..............
this animal, but it usually lives in
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the desert.
8 In story books, this is usually the ..............
home of a king or queen.
9 You can use this to tidy your hair
a tortoise .............. beetles
after you have washed it.
10 This bird has very strong wings and
eats fish and other small animals like ..............
mice or rabbits.
a stamp a factory money

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Part 2

– 5 questions –

  Reading and Writing

Sophia is talking to her friend, Frank. Sophia is asking Frank
some questions about City Park. What does Frank say?
Read the conversation and choose the best answer.
Write a letter (A-H) for each answer.
You do not need to use all the letters. There is one example.

Example

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Sophia: Have you been to City Park yet, Frank?

Frank: B
...................................................................

Questions
1 Sophia: What can you do there?

Frank: ...................................................................

2 Sophia: So, what did you and your sister do first?

Frank: ...................................................................

3 Sophia: And did you meet anyone from our class

there?
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Frank: ...................................................................

4 Sophia: So, you didn’t go on a river boat?

Frank: ...................................................................

5 Sophia: How long did you stay there?

Frank: ...................................................................

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A Mum says we can do that next time. We just fed the swans.

B Yes, I went there with my family last Sunday. (example)

C I’m not sure. Tomorrow perhaps.

D Well, you’d enjoy skateboarding and playing volleyball most, I think.

E As soon as I did, Sophia.

F I didn’t see any of our friends, actually.

G I can’t remember … two or three hours?

H She couldn’t come, but I went on the swings and then played golf.
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Part 3

– 6 questions –

  Reading and Writing

Read the story. Choose a word from the box. Write the correct
word next to numbers 1–5. There is one example.

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Example

jobs puzzles alone feel oceans

decided sold magazine interesting prepare

After school last Tuesday, Helen told her mother about her lessons. ‘We
jobs
talked about different ........................ in our English class,’ she said.

‘Geography is my favourite subject, but I think I want to be a journalist

and work for an important newspaper or a famous

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(1) ........................ .’

‘Well,’ her mother said, ‘watch this programme about the sea on TV with

me. It’s just beginning now. It’s about a problem with our environment.’

At the end of the programme, Helen said, ‘Wow! There’s so much plastic

in all our (2) ........................ . That’s terrible! I must write about it.’

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That night, Helen sent a message to the college website. ‘Students will

think that’s really (3) ........................,’ she thought. Then she sent a

letter to the city newspaper.

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The next morning, she got an email from the newspaper.

‘They have (4) ........................ to put my letter on page one, Mum!’

she said. ‘Everyone in the city will see it!’

‘You’re a journalist, Helen!’ Mum said. ‘How does that

(5) ........................?’

‘Amazing!’ Helen answered.

(6) Now choose the best name for the story.

Tick one box.

Mum gets an exciting job

Helen’s wonderful surprise

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Funny programmes on television

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Part 4

– 10 questions –

  Reading and Writing

Read the text. Choose the right words and write them on the lines.

The history of the telephone

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Example of
Today, millions ........................ people in the world feel very
worried or unhappy if they don’t have a phone
1 in ........................ bag or pocket! But a hundred years
2 ........................, in many countries, people didn’t know
3 ........................ about telephones. People who had a phone
4 ........................ their home couldn’t use it outside to speak to
5 a friend, and phones were ................... too large and heavy to
put in pockets. Phones in the 21st century are very different.
6 You can do lots of things with a phone now - ................... only
chat, but text and go online, for example. Some people think
Antonio Meucci was the first person to invent the telephone
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7 but other people say it was an engineer who was ...................

Alexander Bell. Alexander designed his phone in 1876. A year
8 later, the first person Alexander ................... to on his phone
9 was Thomas Watson. ................... Thomas picked up the
10 phone, he decided to say, ‘Hello!’ If we ................... a phone
today, we still say ‘Hello’, don’t we!

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Example of by off

1 they them their

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2 ago yet over

3 anyone anything anywhere

4 in on along

5 many much more

6 not no no-one

7 call called calling

8 speak spoken spoke

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9 Where When Why

10 answer answered answering

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Part 5

– 7 questions –

  Reading and Writing

Look at the pictures and read the story. Write some words to
complete the sentences about the story. You can use 1, 2, 3 or 4
words.

Harry and the music competition

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Harry loved singing. He was already quite good at playing the guitar and
wanted to have piano and violin lessons, too. Last week, Harry’s music
teacher, Mr Kite, told the students about a competition. Anyone could
enter. Students could sing or just play their favourite tune.

‘It will be on Saturday, March 18th in the Queen’s Theatre. The first prize will
be ten lessons on the instrument you like the most!’ Mr Kite said.
It was only March 4th, so Harry had two weeks to practise. Every
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evening, he tried to choose a special song to sing. It was difficult but two
days before the competition, he heard a song on his grandmother’s radio
that he really loved. He found it online. He listened to it again and again
and practised it a lot. When he went up on the stage to sing his song,
Harry was worried. ‘Will I forget the words?’ he thought. But he didn’t
and he sang very well.

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And who won the competition? Harry did of course!
‘Which song did you sing, Harry?’ his grandmother asked that evening.
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‘It was called I’m So Lucky!’ he said.

‘And which instrument are you going to learn?’
‘I’ve thought about this very carefully,’ Harry said. ‘The drums!’
‘The noisiest instrument, then. Oh dear!’ his grandmother said and laughed.
  Reading and Writing

Examples

guitar
Harry could play the ............................................. quite well.

piano and violin lessons

Harry also wanted ................................................................

Questions
1 Mr Kite was a ................... at Harry’s school.

2 The music competition that Mr Kite spoke about was on

..................., in a theatre.

3 The winner could have ................... on their favourite instrument.

4 The song that Harry decided to sing was one that he heard on
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................... .

5 Harry was worried on the stage, but he didn’t ................... any of

the words.

6 The name of Harry’s song was, ‘...................’.

7 Harry won the competition and decided to learn to play the

................... .

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Part 6

– 5 questions –

  Reading and Writing

Read the diary and write the missing words. Write one word on
each line.

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Saturday

Example looked
When I woke up and ......................................... out of the
window this morning, there was snow all over the ground.
1 ........................................ was really deep! After breakfast,
2 I .................................... on the jacket I wear for skiing
and ran outside. The two kids who live in the next flat were
3 already ................................... a snowman! I helped them
with that.
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4 We ......................................... great fun sledging down the

hill together, too. Then the weather got warmer so the snow
5 started ......................................... disappear. But our snow-
man was still there when I went to bed!

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Look at the three pictures. Write about this story. Write 20 or

more words.
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........................................................................................................................

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........................................................................................................................

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Robert’s pet
Kind of pet ?
Who gave it ?
When / get ?
Favourite food ?
What / like doing ?

Holly’s pet
Kind of pet a puppy
Who gave it her grandfather
When / get in June
Favourite food biscuits
What / like doing teaching it to sit down
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A2 FLYERS SPEAKING  Information exchange

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Robert’s pet
Kind of pet a rabbit
Who gave it his aunt
When / get last month
Favourite food grass
What / like doing playing with a plastic ball

Holly’s pet
Kind of pet ?
Who gave it ?
When / get ?
Favourite food ?
What / like doing ?

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Alex

Dad
Mum

A2 FLYERS SPEAKING  Picture story

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The lost key
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