Practice Listening English Exercises for A2 – The past

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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.

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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.

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

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	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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