What to expect in the A2 Flyers Test

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1 What to expect in the There are 25 questions and 5 parts. You will have 20 minutes. You will hear each conversation twice. You will need a pencil or pen and some coloured pencils or pens: red, blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, purple, black, brown and grey. Part Listen and draw lines. There is one example. Richard Katy Harry William Part 5 questions Listen to a conversation. Listen for the names of the people in the picture. Draw a line from each name to the correct person. Sarah George Emma 2 Part 2 Listen and write. There is one example. Part 2 5 questions Listen to a conversation and write a word or number. Grandfather s job Grandfather s first job: fire fighter he was a... Town where he worked:... 2 The first thing he had to do: find a... 3 What he liked wearing most: his... 4 Number of people in his team:... 5 Why he enjoyed this job: it was

2 Part 3 Listen to a conversation. Look at the pictures and read the words. Match the objects with the places and write a letter in each box. Part 3 5 questions unt etty is talking about some of her things. Where is each thing now? D E F G H Listen and write a letter in each box. There is one example. chess crown violin sunglasses diary necklace _ indd 4 6/08/208 6: _ indd 5 6/08/208 6:42 Part 4 Listen and tick ( ) the box. There is one example. Who phoned Michael today? Part 4 5 questions What will Michael go and see? 2 Listen to five short conversations. Read the questions. hoose the correct answer,, or, for each question. Which station will Michael arrive at? Part 5 Listen and colour and write. There is one example. 2 F L _ indd 6 6/08/208 6:42 Reading and Writ Part 5 5 questions Listen to a conversation. olour the objects correctly. Write on two parts of the picture _ indd _ indd 5 6/08/208 6:42 5 6/08/208 7:43

3 Reading and Writing There are 44 questions and 7 parts. You will have 40 minutes. You will need a pen or pencil. Part 0 questions Read the sentences and the words. hoose the correct word for each sentence. Part 0 questions Look and read. hoose the correct words and write them on the lines. There is one example. a key a camel an eagle a chemist a restaurant an octopus You buy this in a post office and put it on an envelope before you send it. People work to make many kinds of things in this place, for example 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. 4 You use these to cut things like 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. 7 If you go to the zoo, you might see this animal, but it usually lives in the desert. 8 In story books, this is usually the home of a king or queen. a stamp a hotel a castle scissors a tortoise 9 You can use this to tidy your hair after you have washed it. 0 This bird has very strong wings and eats fish and other small animals like mice or rabbits. beetles a stamp a factory money 2 Part 2 5 questions Read the conversation and choose the best answer. Write a letter on each line. Part 2 Sophia is talking to her friend, Frank. Sophia is asking Frank some questions about ity Park. What does Frank say? Read the conversation and choose the best answer. Write a letter (-H) for each answer. You do not need to use all the letters. There is one example. Example Sophia: Have you been to ity Park yet, Frank? Frank:... Questions Sophia: What can you do there? Frank:... 2 Sophia: So, what did you and your sister do first? Frank:... 3 Sophia: nd did you meet anyone from our class there? Frank:... 4 Sophia: So, you didn t go on a river boat? Frank:... 5 Sophia: How long did you stay there? Frank:

4 Part 3 6 questions Read the story. hoose a word from the box for each number to complete the story. Then choose the best title for the story. Part 3 6 questions Read the story. hoose a word from the box. Write the correct word next to numbers 5. There is one example. Example jobs puzzles alone feel oceans decided sold magazine interesting prepare fter school last Tuesday, Helen told her mother about her lessons. We talked about different jobs... 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 () w.... 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. t 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. 26 Part 4 0 questions Read the text. hoose the right words and write them on the lines. The history of the telephone Example Today, millions... of people in the world feel very worried or unhappy if they don t have a phone in... bag or pocket! ut 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 2st 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 ntonio Meucci was the first person to invent the telephone 7 but other people say it was an engineer who was... lexander ell. lexander designed his phone in 876. year 8 later, the first person lexander... to on his phone 9 was Thomas Watson.... Thomas picked up the 0 phone, he decided to say, Hello! If we... a phone today, we still say Hello, don t we! Part 5 7 questions Read the story. omplete the sentences about the story with one, two or three words. 24 Part 4 0 questions Read the text. hoose the right word for each number and write it on the line. Part 5 7 questions Look at the pictures and read the story. Write some words to complete the sentences about the story. You can use, 2, 3 or 4 words. Harry and the music competition 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. nyone could enter. Students could sing or just play their favourite tune. It will be on Saturday, March 8th 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 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. ut he didn t and he sang very well. 28 7

5 Part 6 5 questions Read the text. omplete it with a word in each space. Part 6 Read the diary and write the missing words. Write one word on each line. Saturday Example When I woke up and... looked out of the window this morning, there was snow all over the ground.... was really deep! fter 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. 4 5 We... great fun sledging down the hill together, too. Then the weather got warmer so the snow started... disappear. ut our snowman was still there when I went to bed! 30 Part 7 Part 7 Look at the three pictures. Write a story about them. Write 20 words or more. Look at the three pictures. Write about this story. Write 20 or more words

6 Speaking There are 4 parts. Part Say hello to the examiner. Tell them your name and age. The examiner will give you a picture that is similar to one that they have but with some differences. The examiner will then say sentences about their picture. You must describe six things that are different in your picture. Speaking FLYERS SPEKING Find the differences 32 Speaking Robert s pet Kind of pet? Who gave it? When / get? Favourite food? What / like doing? Kind of pet Who gave it When / get Favourite food What / like doing Robert s pet a rabbit his aunt last month grass playing with a plastic ball Speaking Kind of pet Who gave it When / get Favourite food What / like doing Holly s pet a puppy her grandfather in June biscuits teaching it to sit down Holly s pet Kind of pet? Who gave it? When / get? Favourite food? What / like doing? FLYERS SPEKING Information exchange FLYERS SPEKING Information exchange Part 2 You will have a paper with some information. The examiner will ask you questions. You answer the questions using your information. You then ask the examiner questions to find the information which they have. 9

7 The lost key Part 3 The examiner will show you five pictures which tell a story. The examiner will tell you the title of the story, the characters names and describe the first picture. You describe the other four pictures to complete the story. Speaking lex 3 Dad Mum FLYERS SPEKING Picture story 36 Part 4 The examiner will ask you some questions. For example, Now let s talk about some different animals. What s your favourite animal? 0