Unit 2: Skills Test B: Dictation Listening

Unit 2: Skills Test B
Dictation Listening
You are going to listen to a recording about a
Task 1
photo. Listen to the whole recording once. Then
you will hear the recording again with pauses for Listen to Calum talking about a music competition.
you to write down what you hear. Make sure you Write one or two words or a number or a date.
spell the words correctly.
Music competition

Rules:
..
• people must be 10–16 years old
........................................
........................................ • groups of between 3–6
........................................
• all songs need to be created on a (1)
........................................
....................................... Their song:
........................................
They had drums, guitar and keyboard sounds. The
band’s (2) was Katie.

They applied for the competition on (3)
and finished their song on Thursday.

Their song was called (4) and their band
was called The Message
___/10 The winner will have the most online votes. They have
(5) votes now.
The top prize is to see a (6) in Rome.
___/18
Task 2
Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?
7 Katie wanted the others to enter the competition.

8 Katie felt nervous about singing.

___/2
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Reading
Task 1
Read the article and choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.
9 In the first paragraph, what is true about English?

A It’s not an international language.
B It’s the only international language.
C Business people use it.
D It is easy to learn.
10 Why is Esperanto becoming more popular?

A It doesn’t have a large vocabulary.
B It’s has always been an easy language to learn.
C It’s not taught in schools.
D People can learn online.
11 Where are Esperanto speakers from?

A two or three countries
B one country
C all the countries of the world
D most countries
12 How did Katarina feel about speaking Esperanto when she was young?
A fine
B strange
C confused
D bored
13 How many languages does Katarino speak?

A two
B three
C four
D five
14 Why does Katarina think Esperanto will grow?

A Because of communication on the internet.
B Because people travel more nowadays.
C Because more writing is in Esperanto.
D Because it is very popular now.
___/18
Task 2
Read the article again and answer the questions in your own words.
15 How many people know some Esperanto?

16 How did Esperanto help Katarina?

___/2
Total: ___/50

Esperanto – an unusual language
When you think of an international language you might There are also some people who have Esperanto as
think of English. Schools teach English all over the their first language. This may seem unusual, but it can
world and it is often the language of international happen when children are raised in families with
business. But there is another international language – parents from different countries. This is because the
Esperanto! Esperanto is not a language from any parents want all the family to have a shared language.
country, it is an invented international language. This is what happened to 16-year-old Katarina.
A man called LL Zamenhof wanted to design a ‘From when I was born to when I was four years old, I
language that didn’t belong to one country, and in only spoke Esperanto at home. My father is from
1887, he designed Esperanto. Over 1 million people Croatia and my mother is from India. They decided that
can speak Esperanto and over 2 million can we should all learn Esperanto and speak it at home.
understand some Esperanto words. The popularity of Many kids find languages boring, but I thought it was
Esperanto is also growing. This is most likely because fun, especially because nobody else could understand
it is easier to learn than it was in the past. Now, you us, and they were confused! When I was older, they
can find courses online, but in the past there weren’t also started teaching me some English, and I can
many books on Esperanto, and it was not taught in speak a little bit of my parents’ first languages too. I
many schools. think learning Esperanto made it easier to learn other
languages.’
The interesting thing about Esperanto speakers is that
they are not from just one place. There are speakers in Katerina also says, ‘When I’m older, I want to be a
nearly every country, with speakers in over 120 journalist, and travel to different countries, but I want to
countries. The highest numbers of speakers are in write my articles in English and Esperanto. I think it will
China, Europe and the United States. be more and more popular in future. Now there are
many people from different countries who
communicate online. Why not in Esperanto?’

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........................................ • groups of between 3–6

....................................... Their song:

The top prize is to see a (6) in Rome.

7 Katie wanted the others to enter the competition.

8 Katie felt nervous about singing.

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9 In the first paragraph, what is true about English?

10 Why is Esperanto becoming more popular?

11 Where are Esperanto speakers from?

13 How many languages does Katarino speak?

14 Why does Katarina think Esperanto will grow?

15 How many people know some Esperanto?

16 How did Esperanto help Katarina?

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