PTE Academic Practice Test 2. Part 1: Speaking

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1 PTE Academic Practice Test 2 Part 1: Speaking

2 Part 1: Speaking This part of the test consists of some questions where an audio is listened to and the response given. In the actual PTE Academic test a personal introduction is given, but this is not included in this practice test. Section Item type Time allowed Section 1 Personal introduction 1 minute Section 2 Read aloud minutes Repeat sentence Describe image Re-tell lecture Answer short question The audios for the questions and sample responses can be found on the Mock Test 2 page in your Super PTE account. In your PTE exam, the audio will play automatically. You will not find the instructions to play the audio in your real exam. Answers are at the end.

3 Read aloud Item 1 Look at the text below. In 40 seconds, you must read this text aloud as naturally and clearly as possible. You have 40 seconds to read aloud. The Food Standards Agency is a non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for protecting public health in relation to food in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It is led by a board appointed to act in the public interest. Its headquarters are in London, with national offices in Wales and Northern Ireland.

4 Read aloud Item 2 Look at the text below. In 40 seconds, you must read this text aloud as naturally and clearly as possible. You have 40 seconds to read aloud. The original design for the airport created in 1959 had all the terminal buildings and parking structures connected to a huge glass dome, which would serve as a central hub for traffic circulation. The plan was eventually scaled down considerably, and the terminals were constructed elsewhere on the property.

5 Read aloud Item 3 Look at the text below. In 40 seconds, you must read this text aloud as naturally and clearly as possible. You have 40 seconds to read aloud. When the establishments closed down in the hot summer months, the three men turned their attention to ballparks, the first being Main Stadium, and the creation of the sports concession industry. A second company was created in 1926 following contracts with minorleague ballparks in New York. It is now North's largest operating company.

6 Read aloud Item 4 Look at the text below. In 40 seconds, you must read this text aloud as naturally and clearly as possible. You have 40 seconds to read aloud. The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms. It supports a wide diversity of life and was selected as a World Heritage Site. CNN labelled it one of the seven natural wonders of the world.

7 Read aloud Item 5 Look at the text below. In 40 seconds, you must read this text aloud as naturally and clearly as possible. You have 40 seconds to read aloud. Scientists actively work to understand past and future climate by using observations and theoretical models. A climate record extending deep into the Earth's past has been assembled, and continues to be built up, based on geological evidence from borehole temperature profiles, cores removed from deep accumulations of ice, floral and faunal records, glacial processes and records of past sea levels.

8 Read aloud Item 6 Look at the text below. In 40 seconds, you must read this text aloud as naturally and clearly as possible. You have 40 seconds to read aloud. Many products, of course, were not successful. One such product came as a result of his safari to Africa in the early 1960s. While camping, he discovered a species of fish that laid eggs in the mud during Africa's dry season. When the rains came, the eggs hatched and fish emerged overnight.

9 Repeat sentence Item 1 You will hear a sentence. Please repeat the sentence exactly as you heart it. You will hear the sentence only once. Play RS1.

10 Repeat sentence Item 2 You will hear a sentence. Please repeat the sentence exactly as you heart it. You will hear the sentence only once. Play RS2.

11 Repeat sentence Item 3 You will hear a sentence. Please repeat the sentence exactly as you heart it. You will hear the sentence only once. Play RS3.

12 Repeat sentence Item 4 You will hear a sentence. Please repeat the sentence exactly as you heart it. You will hear the sentence only once. Play RS4.

13 Repeat sentence Item 5 You will hear a sentence. Please repeat the sentence exactly as you heart it. You will hear the sentence only once. Play RS5.

14 Repeat sentence Item 6 You will hear a sentence. Please repeat the sentence exactly as you heart it. You will hear the sentence only once. Play RS6.

15 Repeat sentence Item 7 You will hear a sentence. Please repeat the sentence exactly as you heart it. You will hear the sentence only once. Play RS7.

16 Repeat sentence Item 8 You will hear a sentence. Please repeat the sentence exactly as you heart it. You will hear the sentence only once. Play RS8.

17 Repeat sentence Item 9 You will hear a sentence. Please repeat the sentence exactly as you heart it. You will hear the sentence only once. Play RS9.

18 Repeat sentence Item 10 You will hear a sentence. Please repeat the sentence exactly as you heart it. You will hear the sentence only once. Play RS10.

19 Repeat sentence Item 11 You will hear a sentence. Please repeat the sentence exactly as you heart it. You will hear the sentence only once. Play RS11.

20 Repeat sentence Item 12 You will hear a sentence. Please repeat the sentence exactly as you heart it. You will hear the sentence only once. Play RS12.

21 Describe image Item 1 Look at the map below. In 25 seconds, please speak into the microphone and describe in detail what the map is showing. You will have 40 seconds to give your response.

22 Describe image Item 2 Look at the map below. In 25 seconds, please speak into the microphone and describe in detail what the map is showing. You will have 40 seconds to give your response.

23 Describe image Item 3 Look at the map below. In 25 seconds, please speak into the microphone and describe in detail what the map is showing. You will have 40 seconds to give your response.

24 Describe image Item 4 Look at the map below. In 25 seconds, please speak into the microphone and describe in detail what the map is showing. You will have 40 seconds to give your response.

25 Describe image Item 5 Look at the map below. In 25 seconds, please speak into the microphone and describe in detail what the map is showing. You will have 40 seconds to give your response.

26 Describe image Item 6 Look at the map below. In 25 seconds, please speak into the microphone and describe in detail what the map is showing. You will have 40 seconds to give your response.

27 Re-tell lecture Item 1 You will hear a lecture. After listening to the lecture, in 10 seconds, please speak into the microphone and retell what you have just heard from the lecture in your own words. you will have 40 seconds to give you response. Play RL1.

28 Re-tell lecture Item 2 You will hear a lecture. After listening to the lecture, in 10 seconds, please speak into the microphone and retell what you have just heard from the lecture in your own words. you will have 40 seconds to give you response. Play RL2.

29 Re-tell lecture Item 3 You will hear a lecture. After listening to the lecture, in 10 seconds, please speak into the microphone and retell what you have just heard from the lecture in your own words. you will have 40 seconds to give you response. Play RL3.

30 Re-tell lecture Item 4 You will hear a lecture. After listening to the lecture, in 10 seconds, please speak into the Re-tell lecture Item 1 microphone and retell what you have just heard from the lecture in your own words. you will have 40 seconds to give you response. Play RL4. Play audio file Prompt_Re-tell_lecture_Item_1 in the Prompts folder. Re-tell the lecture and record your response.

31 Answer short question Item 1 You will hear a question. Please give a simple and short answer. Often just one or a few words is enough. Play AS1.

32 Answer short question Item 2 You will hear a question. Please give a simple and short answer. Often just one or a few words is enough. Play AS2.

33 Answer short question Item 3 You will hear a question. Please give a simple and short answer. Often just one or a few words is enough. Play AS3.

34 Answer short question Item 4 You will hear a question. Please give a simple and short answer. Often just one or a few words is enough. Play AS4.

35 Answer short question Item 5 You will hear a question. Please give a simple and short answer. Often just one or a few words is enough. Play AS5.

36 Answer short question Item 6 You will hear a question. Please give a simple and short answer. Often just one or a few words is enough. Play AS6.

37 Answer short question Item 7 You will hear a question. Please give a simple and short answer. Often just one or a few words is enough. Play AS7.

38 Answer short question Item 8 You will hear a question. Please give a simple and short answer. Often just one or a few words is enough. Play AS8.

39 Answer short question Item 9 You will hear a question. Please give a simple and short answer. Often just one or a few words is enough. Play AS9.

40 Answer short question Item 10 You will hear a question. Please give a simple and short answer. Often just one or a few words is enough. Play AS10.

41 Answer short question Item 11 You will hear a question. Please give a simple and short answer. Often just one or a few words is enough. Play AS11.

42 Answer short question Item 12 You will hear a question. Please give a simple and short answer. Often just one or a few words is enough. Play AS12.

43 PTE Academic Practice Test 1 Answers Part 1: Speaking

44 Read Aloud Item 1 Sample response Play RA1 Read Aloud Item 2 Sample response Play RA2 Read Aloud Item 3 Sample response Play RA3 Read Aloud Item 4 Sample response Play RA4 Read Aloud Item 5 Sample response Play RA5 Read Aloud Item 6 Sample response Play RA6 Repeat Sentence Item 1 Sounds like you ve had a very exciting career and you probably have many years to come Repeat Sentence Item 2 We will have all this information on our website, if anyone is interested they can go to the website. Repeat Sentence Item 3 you have reason to expect some sense of the tone and style of an administration Repeat Sentence Item 4 We still see tonnes of images that are just pulled from Google Repeat Sentence Item 5

45 Let them give us facts and honour their own senses with trust. Repeat Sentence Item 6 The phases marked the progression in the student learning experience from direct teacher instruction to independent student work. Repeat Sentence Item 7 So just one other quick example that we ve been actively working on Repeat Sentence Item 8 So there are lot of ways in which we potentially are in control of climate, control of how we deal with it. Repeat Sentence Item 9 So it s hard to know exactly what they are doing because we don t have that much visibility. Repeat Sentence Item 10 Make sure that you are ing me within the next two weeks. Repeat Sentence Item 11 Well I was heavily involved in any sport Repeat Sentence Item 12 On the website there are also places for you to leave a suggestion for a future biography. Describe Image Item 1 Sample response Play DIR1 Describe Image Item 2 Sample response Play DIR2 Describe Image Item 3 Sample response Play DIR3

46 Describe Image Item 4 Sample response Play DIR4 Describe Image Item 5 Sample response Play DIR5 Describe Image Item 6 Sample response Play DIR6 Re-tell Lecture Item 1 The reason we should go to Mars is that it is basically the most interesting place in the solar system. It is a much smaller planet than Earth but it has as much land as Earth does because it doesn t have any oceans. So, there s plenty of it to explore. And, it s a place with the highest mountain in the solar system Olympus Mount which is so tall it sticks out into the space which incidentally makes it a brilliant place to put an observatory. But it also has the biggest canyon system in the <name> and it has seasons. It has polar caps that grow and melt as the year goes on and it has weather. It has dust storms, occasionally has clouds and in many ways is a planet much like our own. The rest of the solar system is either weird blobby gas giants or things like Mercury and Venus which are too hot to be comfortable. So, Mars is the ideal destination if we go beyond our own planet. Scientifically, it s particularly important to explore Mars. Sample response Play RLR1 Re-tell Lecture Item 2 Had a lot of my own career transitions. So much of my career has been spent studying those transitions. I worked at a startup right out of UCLA. Then I worked at Google for 5 years in training, coaching and career development and now I have been running my own business doing career consulting, coaching, writing and speaking for 5 years and beneath all that one of my favorite blog posts that I wrote a few years ago was Ten thousand hours of neurosis and it was to highlight the fact that I have done one thing for the first thirty years of my life is having anxiety, being neurotic, figure out how to solve this inner confusion certainly done that for hours and then in the last few years, I am 32 now, things have really shifted in a wonderful way, much more calm than I did in the past. Much of what I address in my forthcoming book Pivot is how to manage the change process given we are all going to experience career change more frequently. Sample response

47 Play RLR2 Re-tell Lecture Item 3 A few years out of school I was working in a small operation and I had people coming into my store asking me questions about natural products and herbals and supplements and things and I couldn t help them. I did not know what to tell them and I didn t like that. So I said, I got to learn these things. I want to help these people, answer their questions when they come in. So, I set out on a journey to learn all that I could about natural products and natural medicine and educate myself on it. I found a company that was offering courses in different cities across the country. Every couple of months or so they would have a course set up to get certified in certain natural therapies and they had different doctors and clinicians come in and teach these courses. So, I started taking all these courses and learning all that I could and began to apply what I was learning to my own life, my own health and saw tremendous changes in my health. I was pretty unhealthy that time for somebody my age in their late 20s, early 30s, I had gone through few years of severe stress and Sample response Play RLR3 Re-tell Lecture Item 4 I came here excited. My experience from being in Chicago area, Texas, St Louis I really wanted to look at what is it that leads to effective change. We definitely need technology. Our children need to touch technology in order to have access to their current lives and their future lives and not just use technology in a point and click standpoint. But, I saw there was a gap throughout my experience of education is that, especially when we were at Houston and we were one of the first larger districts to be successful with rolling out technology. One of the things, philosophies that I gathered was that if you lead with technology it becomes a negative disrupter. To hand out technology without professional development is a negative disrupter. But even before that, I think, when talking to experts out there Bill Gates has said once before but the other thing is it is inappropriate to put technology, newer ways of thinking on an older instructional model that as never designed for the children of today. Sample response Play RLR4 Answer Short Question Item 1 Name a country located in North America. Answer: USA/US/Canada/United States of America/United States Answer Short Question Item 2

48 Which country is in the southern hemisphere? Canada or Australia? Answer: Australia Answer Short Question Item 3 In which season people will be least likely to go skiing? Answer: summer Answer Short Question Item 4 Would a town, city or village probably cover the largest area? Answer: city Answer Short Question Item 5 What does the main difference between a wrist watch and a clock relate to? Answer: size Answer Short Question Item 6 Which desk would you go to when you first arrive to the hotel? Answer: front desk/check in desk/reception desk Answer Short Question Item 7 What do we call the first meal of the day? Answer: breakfast Answer Short Question Item 8 What object will you use to climb up to the roof of the house?

49 Answer: a ladder Answer Short Question Item 9 What is the source of the solar energy? Answer: sun Answer Short Question Item 10 What is winter, spring, summer and autumn? Answer: seasons Answer Short Question Item 11 What type of food is an apple? Answer: fruit Answer Short Question Item 12 Which sweet food is produced by bees? Answer: honey