Exam practice 1

Reading

Task 1	Task 7	Task 13
Task 2	Task 8	Task 14
Task 3	Task 9	Task 15
Task 4	Task 10	Task 16
Task 5	Task 11	Task 17
Task 6	Task 12	Task 18

 

Listening 

	Task 7	Task 13
Task 2	Task 8	Task 14
Task 3	Task 9	Task 15
Task 4	Task 10	Task 16
Task 5	Task 11
Task 6

Reading tasks

To practice your reading skills, you can try the following on-line tasks: 

• Test 1
• Test 2
• Test 3
• Test 4
• Test 5
• Test 6
• Test 7
• Test 8
• Test 9
• Test 10
• Test 11

source: UsingEnglish.com. Web. 8 Apr. 2011. <http://www.usingenglish.com/ >.

A2-extra listening with quizzes

If you want to improve your listening skills and prepare yourself well for the exam click this LINK

To benefit from these on-line activities (there are 34), it is important that you take the following steps:  

1. Click on Quiz Video-Questions
2. Have a look at the questions
3. Click on Listen to the Dialogue to hear the recording. 
4.Choose the correct option to the question 1-4
5. Click on "Check Answer" to see your marks.
6. If you are still unsure, click on "Show conversation Dialogue" and listen again

TO BE GOING TO + VERB to express future plans and predictions

1. Watch this short video on how to use to be going to + verb to express future plans.

2. Do the following online exercises to practice this form

• TASK 1
• TASK 2
• TASK 3 

A2-Simple past vs past continuous

1. Watch this VIDEO-TUTORIAL to study how to use past continuous vs simple past

To have some practice on this language point, you can do the following online tasks: 

• Task 1 
• Task 2
• Task 3
• Task 4

A2-Listening Tasks_1

Try the following listening activities:

• Quiz 1: The new class
• Quiz 2: Making apple pie 
• Quiz 3: On the Plane
• Quiz 4: At the Department store
• Quiz 5: Telephone numbers
• Quiz 6: Conversations (There are four conversations) 
• Quiz 7: Telephone conversations (there are two) 
• Quiz 8: Directions on the telephone (there are two exercises) 
• Quiz 9: Conversations. Multiple choice (there are three exercises) 

How to download listening quizzes 1, 2, 3 and 4

Pronunciation of irregular past tenses

1. Here you have a video lesson about how to form the past tense in English.

2. If you want to practise pronunciation of some irreguar verbs, you can watch this other video. 

3. Would you like to have fun and practice irregular past tenses at the same time? If the answer is yes, please try the following on-line games. You will have to be very fast though because there is a watch ticking away. 

Game 1
Game 2
Game 3
Game 4
Game 5

What's the weather like?

This video will help you to revise and learn new vocabulary to talk about the weather. To complete this listening task, follow these steps.

Step 1. Watch the video without taking notes, just listen to what people are saying.

Step 2. Complete this chart.

•  What's the weather like for these people?

1. Chuck
2. Dave and Diana
3. Steven
4. Ghia
5. Colin and Chris
6. Eric
7. Minda
8. Sandra
9. Anthony

Step 3. Watch the video with subtitles to check your answers. 

 

Step 4. Write the new words that you have learnt with this video. If there is a term you don't understand, look it up in a dictionary. 

A2-Connectors: Although, But, Because, So and connecting time

If you want to practice this grammar point, you can do the following online activities

• Task 1
• Task 2
• Task 3
• Task 4 

A2-The past in English

1. Here you have a video lesson about how to form the past tense in English.



2. If you want to practise pronunciation of some irreguar verbs, you can watch this other video. 

3. Would you like to have fun and practice irregular past tenses at the same time? If the answer is yes, please try the following on-line games. You will have to be very fast though because there is a watch ticking away. 

Game 1
Game 2
Game 3
Game 4
Game 5

Grammar unit 1

Word order in questions

• Test 1
• Test 2
• Test 3
• Test 4 (question words)
• Test 5 (question words)

Present simple

• Test 1
• Test 2
• Test 3

Present continuous

• Test 1
• Test 2

Present simple vs present continuous

• Test 1
• Test 2
• Test 3
• Test 4

Adverbs of frequency and Expressions of Frequency

If you would like to practice this grammar point further, do the following online activities:

• Activity 1
• Activity 2
• Activity 3
• Activity 4

A2-Describing people

If you want to practise how to describe people, you can do the following on-line activities:

• Activity 1
• Activity 2
• Activity 3 (listening game) 
• Activity 4
• Activity 5 (listening and reading activities) 

Easy listening activities

If you want to practise your listening abilities, you can do the following online activities:

• Activity 1
• Activity 2
• Activity 3
• Activity 4
• Activity 5
• Activity 6
• Activity 7

WELCOME!

A2-A1 REVISION EXERCISES

READING

• Activity 1
  
• Activity 2
• Activity 3
• Activity 4
• Activity 5 (EXTRA ACTIVITY based on this story)
• Activity 6
• Activity 7
• Activity 8
• Activity 9 (33 reading exercises)
• Activity 10 (35 reading tests) 

LISTENING

• Activity 1
• Activity 2
• Activity 3
• Activity 4
• Activity 5
• Activity 6
• Activity 7
• Activity 8
• Activity 9
• Activity 10 
• Activity 11
• Activity 12
• Activity 13
• Activity 14
• Activity 15
• Activity 16
• Activity 17
• Activity 18  (30 activities)

WRITING

• Activity 1
• Activity 2
• Activity 3 (6 activities)
• Activity 4 (6 activities)
• Activity 5 (6 activities)

Revision of the albaphet

1. Watch this video to revise the alphabet in English 



2. Do de following online exercises on the aphabet 

• TASK 1
• TASK 2
• TASK 3
• TASK 4 

A1-Examples of Monologues and Dialogues

MONOLOGUES

1. My daily routine. To watch this video click HERE
2. Describing my house. To wathc this video click HERE
3. My Family. To watch this video click HERE
4. My last summer. To watch this video click HERE
5. My son's daily routine. To watch this video click HERE
6. Talking about myself. To watch this video click HERE 
7. My trip to Paris. To watch this video click HERE
8. The weather in my town. To watch this click HERE
9. Things in my fridge. To watch this click HERE

DIALOGUES

1.  At a Hotel. To watch the video click HERE 
2. At a restaurant. To watch the video click HERE 
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A1-Speaking Practise 1 and 2

If you would like to practise for your oral exam, follow these steps

PRACTICE 1

Step 1: Have a look at the card 

Step 2:Listen to the recording.

• If you want to practise questions, stop the recording before the question and say the question. Check if you are right.
• If you want to practise answers, stop the recording before the answers and say the answer. Check if you are right. 

PRACTISE 2

Step 1: Have a look at the card 

Step 2:Listen to the recording.

• If you want to practise questions, stop the recording before the question and say the question. Check if you are right.
• If you want to practise answers, stop the recording before the answers and say the answer. Check if you are right. 
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A1-Speaking Practise 3 and 4

If you would like to practise for your oral exam, follow these steps

PRACTICE 3

Step 1: Have a look at the card 

Step 2:Listen to the recording.

• If you want to practise questions, stop the recording before the question and say the question. Check if you are right.
• If you want to practise answers, stop the recording before the answers and say the answer. Check if you are right. 

PRACTICE 4

Step 1: Have a look at the card 

Step 2:Listen to the recording.

• If you want to practise questions, stop the recording before the question and say the question. Check if you are right.
• If you want to practise answers, stop the recording before the answers and say the answer. Check if you are right. 

A1-Speaking Practise 5 and 6

If you would like to practise for your oral exam, follow these steps

PRACTICE 5

Step 1: Have a look at the card 

Step 2:Listen to the recording.

• If you want to practise questions, stop the recording before the question and say the question. Check if you are right.
• If you want to practise answers, stop the recording before the answers and say the answer. Check if you are right. 

PRACTICE 6

Step 1: Have a look at the card 

Step 2:Listen to the recording.

• If you want to practise questions, stop the recording before the question and say the question. Check if you are right.
• If you want to practise answers, stop the recording before the answers and say the answer. Check if you are right. 

A1-irregular past tenses

Would you like to have fun and practice irregular past tenses at the same time? If the answer is yes, please try the following on-line games. You will have to be very fast though because there is a watch ticking away. 

Game 1
Game 2
Game 3
Game 4
Game 5

A1-Vocabulary exercises

• Quiz 1: Adjective opposites
• Quiz 2: Nationalities and countries.
• Quiz 3: Sports (play, go and do)
• Quiz 4: Jobs
• Quiz 5: Places
• Quiz 6: On the menu
• Quiz 7: Personality adjectives
• Quiz 8: Jobs and occupations
• Quiz 9: Time markers

A1-Exam Training for May exam

READING

• Activity 1
  
• Activity 2
• Activity 3
• Activity 4
• Activity 5 (EXTRA ACTIVITY based on this story)
• Activity 6
• Activity 7
• Activity 8
• Activity 9 (33 reading exercises)
• Activity 10 (35 reading tests) 

LISTENING

• Activity 1
• Activity 2
• Activity 3
• Activity 4
• Activity 5
• Activity 6
• Activity 7
• Activity 8
• Activity 9
• Activity 10 
• Activity 11
• Activity 12
• Activity 13
• Activity 14
• Activity 15
• Activity 16
• Activity 17
• Activity 18  (30 activities)

WRITING

• Activity 1
• Activity 2
• Activity 3 (6 activities)
• Activity 4 (6 activities)
• Activity 5 (6 activities)

A1-Shopping for clothes

A1-What's the weather like

You can do the following on-line activities to practice vocabulary connected with the weather:

• Activity 1 (listening)
• Activity 2 (listening)
• Activity 3 (reading and writing)
• Activity 4 (reading and writing)
• Activity 5 (reading and writing)

A1-Listening activities

If you would like to practice your listening abilities, you can do the following listening activities:

• Activity 1
• Activity 2
• Activity 3
• Activity 4
• Activity 5
• Activity 6
• Activity 7
• Activity 8
• Activity 9
• Activity 10
• Activity 11
• Activity 12
• Acitivity 13

A1-Possessive with apostrophe

There are two possibilities: 

1. The person who has something is singular
My sister has a cat. It is black 
My sister's cat is black  

2. The possessor is plural
The schools have classrooms. They are big. 
The schools´classrooms are big

Do the following online activities: 

• Activity 1
• Activity 2
• Activity 3

3. The question word WHOSE to ask about possession

Whose is this book? it is Bill's 

This question word, whose, is often confused with the contraction of who is = who's because the two forms are pronounced identically. 

Compare
Who's Peter? The man with the newspaper
Whose newspaper is this? it is Peter's 

• Activity 1