Exam practice

Here you can find selected exercises simulating the ones which appear in the exam.

Reading

Multiple choice

1. The life of a vet.
2. Baseball.
3. Flight.
4. Reality shows.
5. Storm.

Multiple matching

1. The collectors.
2. Driving confessions.
3. Cities.
4. Family ties.
5. Jobs.
6. Teen crime.
7. Yoga.

Use of English

Multiple choice cloze test

For this type of exercise, read the whole text, without looking at the multiple choice options. After that, read it again more slowly and pay close attention to which option fits best in each gap. Read the complete sentence before you decide, trying to guess which kind of word you need (verb, preposition, noun, adjective, etc.), in which tense (if the options are verbs), and in which number (singular or plural for nouns and verbs). Do not forget to look at how the sentence continues; many options are impossible to use because there is a preposition, or because we don't have a subject, etc.

1. Studying abroad.
2. Women and science.
3. Technology and the young.
4. The home of the Eskimos.

Open cloze

1. Perfume.
2. Learning to play music.
3. The Wolf.

Verb tenses

1. Several files on verb tenses. (Check this for a summary guideline)
2. Several activities on verb tenses.

Gapped text

• Two files on gapped texts.

Clozes (mixed)

• Several files on clozes.
• A file with different activities.

Listening comprehension

Remember you don't need to understand every detail and every word, only the information asked in the exercise. Focus on that, and be ready to get the general understanding, as the information can be presented in different words and not the same ones you've got on the enunciation. For the gap fill activity type, make sure you revise your answers to check correct spelling.

Multiple choice

1. Laura's job. 
2. Interview about a town.
3. Interview with the singer Nick Parker. (The answers are on the video information).
4. Radio interview to reporter Angela Bond. 
5. Radio interview to ballet dancer Elena Karpov.
6. Television weather forecaster Sarah brown.
7. Recorded message about an arts festival.
8. Radio programme about classical music.
9. Radio interview about an international camp.
10. A talk in a fashion museum.
11. Talking about different sports.
12. James talks about his career.
13. Cable car.
14. Elephant memories (done in class).

Sentence completion

1. Information about a summer camp.
2. Singing for beginners.
3. Historic places to visit.
4. Information about an important sports event in Birmingham.
5. Radio talk about holidays in Northumberland.
6. Interviews to young people from different countries.
7. A language study fair.
8. A woman talking about her jobs abroad.
9. Tanya Perry's life.
10. Plymouth sealife centre.
11. Five messages left on an answerphone.
12. A recorded message about hotels in the National Park.
13. A sports camp for children.
14. Bird watching.
15. How to cook omelettes.
16. Bees.
17. Science and technology.

Writing

• Application letter.
• Article.
• Informal letter/e-mail.
• Story.

Speaking

• Dialogues and vocabulary activites to get ideas.
• Speaking tips and useful language.
• Speaking topics.