Practice Listening English Exercises for A2 – Languages of the world

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Audio

1)
For each question, choose the correct answer. Read through the questions before you listen.
1)
You will hear a boy called Danny talking to his friend. How did Danny improve his Spanish?
A by writing to his penfriend
B by practising online
C by spending time in Spain
2)
You will hear a teacher talking to her class. What does she want them to work harder on?
A their grammar
B their pronunciation
C their vocabulary
3)
You will hear two friends talking about some homework. Why hasn’t the boy done his homework?
A He forgot to make a note of it.
B He wasn’t at the lesson.
C He wrote down the wrong thing.
4)
You will hear a girl telling her mother about her new friend, Yumi. What languages does Yumi speak well?
A English, Russian and Swedish
B Swedish, Japanese and English
C Japanese, Swedish and Russian
5)
You will hear a boy giving a classmate some important news. How did he find out about the news?
A from a family member
B he heard it on the radio
C the teacher told him

Audio

1)
You will hear a man giving some information about different languages. Listen and answer these questions.
1)
How many colour words are there in Russian and Greek? How many in English?
2)
How many number words does the Pirahã language of Brazil have?
3)
Some languages have two sets of vocabulary. Why?
4)
Some languages have no words for left, right, in front of and behindHow do they say where things are?
5)
How is modern technology helping small languages?

Audio

1)
For each question, choose the correct answer.
1)
You will hear a girl called Lucy talking to her mum. What are they discussing?
A when Lucy will eat this evening
B how Lucy will get to basketball practice
C if Lucy’s mum can work late
2)
You will hear a girl called Sam talking to her friend about playing musical instruments. Why does she prefer the piano to the guitar?
A She plays a variety of music on the piano.
B Too many other people play the guitar.
C The guitar is more difficult.
3)
You will hear a girl talking about her Chinese homework. What is she explaining?
A She needs the most time to do the listening exercise.
B She enjoys doing the writing exercises.
C She has only done the reading exercise today.
4)
You will hear a boy talking about his English lesson today. What does he say about it?
A He used his dictionary a lot.
B His teacher could not help him.
C The work he had to do was hard.
5)
You will hear a girl called Sophie talking to a friend about an article she read. What was the topic of the article?
A how to learn lots of languages
B why it is good to learn languages
C the best age to learn more languages

Audio

1)
Listen to Mario talking to his class about learning English. Why did he improve?
2)
Listen again and complete the sentences.
1)
Mario didn’t like English at first because he couldn’t remember the and .
2)
He met the brothers at the .
3)
He wrote the words in a book and to show the meaning.
4)
After the holiday, he sent his new friends .
5)
When he needed a new word, he used an .
6)
He’s going to his friends next summer.

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1)
For each question, choose the correct answer.
You will hear Ella and Tom talking about people’s hobbies. What is each person’s hobby?

PEOPLE	HOBBIES
0 Suzy F1 Jason2 Laura3 Tom4 Ella5 Maria	A collecting thingsB cookingC doing sportD horse ridingE listening to musicF photographyG playing an instrumentH shopping

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