Practice Listening English Exercises for A2 – The past

5 ejercicios

Audio

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.

Audio

Audio

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.

Audio

A. Listen to an interview with Fernanda Espinosa. What is one special thing about her?

Audio

	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.

Cómo Practicar