A2
Practice Listening English Exercises for A2 – The past
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1. Exercise 1
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- A. Listen. For each person check (✓) two pieces of true information and put an (✗) by the false information.
- 1)Lionel Messi, soccer player:
- a) He’s from Spain.
- b) He was a very good student.
- c) He always plays soccer with his hair wet.
- 2)Oprah Winfrey, famous TV presenter and philanthropist (philanthropist = a rich person who gives a lot of money to help other people):
- a) She was very poor when she was a child.
- b) She was a millionaire at the age of twenty-three.
- c) She hates chewing gum.
- 3)Benedict Cumberbatch, actor:
- a) His hobbies at school were acting, sports and painting.
- b) He rides a motorcycle around London.
- c) He was a French teacher before he was an actor.
- 4)Taylor Swift, singer and songwriter:
- a) Her childhood was on an apple tree farm.
- b) She was a songwriter at five years old.
- c) Her grandmother was an opera singer.
- 5)Michelle Yeoh, actress:
- a) She was a singer before she was an actress.
- b) She was in a James Bond movie.
- c) She was the winner of the Miss Malaysia beauty contest in 1983.
- 6)Quentin Tarantino, director:
- a) He hates violence.
- b) He wants to stop making movies at age eighty.
- c) His mother was part Cherokee, part Irish.
2. Exercise 2
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- A. Listen and find three things that Samiya and Lidia have in common.
3. Exercise 3
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- A. Listen to the conversations. Which weekend is similar to your last weekend, Isabel’s, Ahmed’s or Jane’s?
- B. Listen again and complete the table.
| Saturday | Sunday | |
| Isabel | ———– | |
| Ahmed | ||
| Jane |
4. Exercise 4
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- A. Listen to an interview with Fernanda Espinosa. What is one special thing about her?
5. Exercise 5
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- A. Listen. Are the sentences true (T) or does the audio not say (?)?
- B. Listen again and underline the correct answer.
- 1)Philip and Denise brought Zsilan home when she was about one/two.
- 2)At first, Zsilan was very happy/unhappy
- 3)Philip and Denise put Zsilan’s letter/Zsilan’s picture on the website.
- 4)Zsilan and Lin looked the same/different.
- 5)The girls lived/didn’t live together.
- 6)Philip and Denise had the tests one year/two years ago.
| T | ? | |
| 1 Zsilan and Lin are from China. | ||
| 2 They were born in the same year. | ||
| 3 Their Australian parents adopted them. | ||
| 4 They know each other. |
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- 2Write your answer or select the correct option
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- 5Move to the next exercise when ready
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