Practice Listening English Exercises for A2 – Vacations

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A. Listen to two people doing the quiz. Answer the questions.
1)
How many of their answers are the same?
2)
Are they good travel partners?
B. Listen again. Write man (M) and woman (W) next to the answers in the quiz.
Going on vacation this year? Do the quiz and find your perfect travel partner!
1)
I like traveling
a) by plane
b) by train
c) by car
2)
I like staying in
a) a hotel
b) a self-catering apartment
c) a tent
3)
I prefer
a) relaxing on a beach
b) doing something athletic
c) going sightseeing
4)
I like going on vacation
a) in spring
b) in summer
c) in winter
5)
When I’m on vacation I like eating
a) local dishes
b) the food I usually eat
c) fast food
6)
In the evenings I like
a) going for a walk
b) going to a restaurant
c) going to a nightclub
7)
My perfect vacation is
a) a weekend
b) a week
c) a month

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A. Listen to a conversation with a Silk Route Tour cyclist. Underline the answers he gives in a)—f).
a) “It was Turpan, China.”
“For me, the Gobi Desert: 122 degrees Fahrenheit!”
b) “The Blue Mosque. I took 100 pictures.”
“The Bibi-Khanym Mosque.”
c) “Meeting locals everywhere.”
“Arriving in Istanbul.”
d) “About 93 miles, in western China.”
“I don’t rememberat least 62 miles.”
e) “The mountains in Kyrgyzstan.”
“The desert at night. There was snow!”
f) “Iran; the people there were so kind.”
“Everywhere, really.”

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A. Look at the map and find “Start here”. Listen to a woman asking for directions.
1)
The Air and Space Museum
2)
The Capital
B. Listen again. How does the woman ask for directions? Complete the conversations.
W: Excuse me.
M: Yes?
W: 1) you 2) me 3) the Air and Space Museum?
M: Yeah. You go straight on this pedestrian street.
W: Excuse me. 4) the Capitol 5) here?
M: Uh. let me think. Yes, the Capitol is at one end of The National Mall.
C. Number the directions to the Capitol in order. Then listen again and check.
a) Then turn left. The name of the street is 3rd Street.
b) The next street is a diagonal.
c) Go straight here for three blocks. 1)
d) Then turn left on 1st Street. The Capitol is on the right.
e) Go straight for a short block.
f) Go past the East Building of the National Gallery of Art on the left.
g) Go left at the corner. I think it’s PennsyIvania Avenue.

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A. Listen to a man talk about a place in his city. Which questions does he answer?
• Where is it?
• What can you find or see there?
• When is the best time to go there?
• Why do you like it?

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A. Look at the map and listen to Nick’s audio diary. Does his train go to or from Moscow?
B. Listen again. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)? Correct the false sentences.
1)
The Trans-Siberian train journey takes nine days. F
The Trans-Siberian train journey takes seven days.
2)
The compartment is for two people.
3)
Anton doesn’t speak much English.
4)
Nick can see snow, forests, villages, and lakes out of the window.
5)
Nick and Anton buy food from women on the train.
6)
They drink a lot of coffee on the train.
7)
On the last evening of the journey, Nick went to a party.
8)
Nick loved the Trans-Siberian train journey.