A1 Practice Test 2
KGL Contest in English
A1
Listening, Reading and Writing
Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Instructions
Read each part carefully.
To answer a question click on the answer. To change your answer click on another answer.
To go to the next part click Next. To go back click Back.
You can go back to check you work until the end of the test.
Listening
There are two parts to the listening test. To start the test click START LISTENING.
You will hear each part twice. You have time to look at the questions before each part.
After part two you have one minute to check your work.
When you hear ‘This is the end of the listening test’, click NEXT to go to the next part of the test.
Writing
Click in the blank page on the right side of the screen and type your answer. You can delete and retype any part of your answer.
There is a word count at the bottom of the screen.
Clicking on Exit ends the test.
You must answer all questions.
To start the test click on the button below.
Part 1 - Listening
Listening Part 1
Questions 1-5
Listen to five people talking about strange laws in their country.
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Part 2 - Listening
Listening Part 2
Questions 6-10
Listen to Mark talking about something that happened on a farm.
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Part 3 - Reading
Questions 11-15
Ivan is talking to his friend Hugo about a strange story he read.
Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D
Strange But True
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Part 4 - Reading
Part 3
Questions 16-20
Read the story and answer the questions. Choose A, B or C
A Good Lesson
Tommy was sent home almost every week by the school headmaster because he caused problems at school. He was an angry boy who lost his temper very easily. This means he often became angry with his friends, and he always seemed to hurt other people with his words.
His father came up with an idea to try to stop the boy from getting angry so easily. He gave his son a hammer and some nails and told him to hammer a nail into the fence every time he got angry in the future.
The following day, the boy got angry 37 times, and had to hammer 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, the boy got tired of hammering nails into the fence and he slowly started to control his temper. The number of nails he was hammering into the fence started to go down. The boy realized that it was easier to stay calm when he started to feel angry than to gather the tools, go outside, and start hammering.
One day he told his father that he didn't hammer any nails into the fence. His dad was happy and told the boy to take out a nail from the fence every day that he was able to keep his temper under control.
Then, after the weeks went by, all the nails had been taken out of the fence. The father and son stood in front of the fence, which was now filled with holes.
The father turned to his son and said, “You have done well, but look at the holes in the fence. They cannot be fixed. When you get angry at other people, it leaves a scar just like the holes you see in front of you. It doesn’t matter if you say I’m sorry one hundred times, the hurt is still there.”
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Part 5 - Reading
Part 4
Questions 21-30
Click on the gap and choose the correct word
Hot-Air Balloons
The first flight carrying a person was not an aeroplane (21) a hot-air balloon. By heating the air inside the balloon with fire, it is lifted. Hot air weighs (22) than cold air which means that hot air will rise or float when there is cold air around. The bigger the difference between the hot and cold air the more the balloon will rise. Of course, this also (23) that a hot-air balloon can carry more weight on a cold day or if the air inside the balloon is very hot. The first hot-air balloon trip carrying a person was in 1783. The trip (24) twenty minutes.
But this was not the first time that a balloon carried a living creature. In fact, the first (25) of hot-air balloons were animals. Yes. That’s right. A duck, a sheep and a chicken were the first to (26) the ride in the sky. The flight lasted eight minutes. All passengers came down safely. However, that balloon was not completely free because it was (27) to a long rope.
The first free flight was a few weeks later. During that flight the pilot of the balloon got (28) and after about an hour he saw a man below in the garden of his house. ‘Hey, can you tell me (29) I am?’, he shouted to the man in the garden.
‘Yes, you are in a big balloon in the air,’ the man answered, and he went (30) into his house.
Part 6 - Reading
Part 6
Questions 31-35
Read and answer the questions. Choose A, B or C
It’s just a name!
My sister got married two years ago and she got a beautiful dog as a present from my uncle. One day my sister and her husband went shopping and did not close the car door properly. The dog escaped and got lost. My sister and her husband were so sad that they could not sleep at night.
They put up posters everywhere, but nothing happened. They offered money to the person who finds the dog but that did not work.
They really wanted to find their dog, so they came up with a different plan to get people to look for it. They said that they would name their first child after the person who finds the dog.
Two weeks later somebody found the dog. The person told them that they searched for two weeks for the dog because they really wanted my sister’s child to have their name.
Last month, my sister had a baby girl. The only problem is that the person who found the dog is called David! How do you name a girl David? We are all waiting to see what solution they find.
Change my name, please!
Joseph Green’s father did not allow him to go mountain climbing with his friends. They went alone and when they came back, they told Joseph that it was the best day they ever had because they reached the top of the mountain. Joseph was so angry with his father that he decided he did not want to have the same last name as his father and decided to change it. This took two years but, in the end, he had his new name; ‘Joseph Awesome ‘.
Many people found his new name funny, but his girlfriend said she liked it. ‘If we marry, I will be called Mrs Awesome, she said, ‘and that is just awesome’ she continued.
But sometimes people change their names for other reasons. A girl in New Zealand was given the name ‘Tula Does the Hula’ by her parents who were from Hawaii. They gave her this name because her grandmother was a famous Hula dancer in Hawaii. The girl asked the court to make her parents change her name because all the children at school laughed at her. The judge agreed that ‘Does the Hula’ was not a name suitable for a girl in New Zealand and the parents had to change it. She is now just called ‘Tula’
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Part 7 - Reading
Part 7
Questions 36-40
Read and choose the correct answer A, B or C
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Part 8 - Writing
Part 8
Writing
Write your message to your friend. You must say:
- what happened
- why you did not go to the party after you got to his old house
- why you did not phone him (give a reason)
- that you want to visit him with a present (ask when)
- you are sorry
Write between 100 and 120 words only.