UNIT TEST 3 ● GROUP A
Dictation, Listening and Reading
Name: ________________________ Listening
Class: ________________________ 2 [Track 7] You will hear six short extracts about
holidays. Choose the correct answer, A, B or C.
Dictation 1 The entertainment finished
A about an hour after the ferry had set off.
1 [Track 6] Listen and write the sentences that you B before England was out of sight.
hear.
C about an hour before they set off in the car.
2 The man will have to pay extra because
A one of his bags is too heavy.
B all his luggage together weighs too much.
C he has too many bags.
3 Choose the correct statement.
A Beth has been on a school trip and is telling her dad
what she did.
B Beth is on holiday and is telling her dad about what has
happened so far.
C Beth is on a school trip and is explaining to her dad that
he might have to collect her.
4 The speaker is
/8 A recommending a tent to some customers.
B talking about a tent he has used in the Himalayas.
C talking about a tent that he is going to buy.
5 The speaker is
A on the south-west coast of England.
B on an island close to England.
C travelling to Canada.
6 The woman who has been on holiday
A spent the whole time skiing.
B visited two different countries.
C did three different activities.
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UNIT TEST 3 ● GROUP A
Dictation, Listening and Reading
Reading TRAVELLERS’ TALES
A
3 Read the stories and match each sentence (1–5) to a We often travel by plane but we don’t use budget airlines,
story (A–C). You can choose each story more than even though they are cheaper and often fly to the places we
once. want to go. I’d rather pay more for a bit more comfort. Last
1 There was an unexpected extra night’s travelling. Christmas, we wanted to spend the holidays with family and
2 The other passengers made it special. friends and we had a change of flight in Frankfurt, Germany.
3 The plan to save time didn’t work. The time between flights was 45 minutes and we soon realised
that we weren’t going to make it. The airline was good to us
4 Delays and discomfort weren’t what I was expecting.
and the other passengers and gave us food and a comfortable
5 I chose this form of transport because it was the most hotel to sleep in. We got a flight the next morning but,
convenient. unfortunately, it meant that we missed a big family party. I
thought I’d been clever and found a quick way to get to
1 Canada but I was very wrong. Now I know that I need to leave
2 at least two hours between flights if I want to be safe. That’s
much better than missing a flight or arriving without your
3
luggage.
4
5 B
/10 We decided to travel across Europe by train. Train travel
always looks so romantic in films. I imagined leisurely meals
in the dining car and meeting exotic people, followed by a
/30 comfortable night’s sleep. Things started to go wrong before
we had even left. The security and check-in for the train from
London was just like at an airport, except that the queues were
longer. Then, when we got to Brussels, we found that our
night train was three hours late and there was nowhere to leave
our bags. After a very long and not very good meal at the
station, it was finally time to get on the night train. It was OK
but the compartment was too hot and when we opened the
window, it was too noisy to sleep. The beds were hard and
there was no dining car so everyone went straight to their own
compartments and didn’t socialise at all. It wasn’t quite as I
had imagined it!
C
We wanted to go to England but weren’t sure how to travel.
We live a long way from an airport and, anyway, none of us
like flying. If we went by train, we would have to change three
times. In the end, we went by coach. It left our home town at
five o’clock in the afternoon, as planned, and arrived in
London, exactly on time, twenty-two hours later. I wasn’t
expecting to sleep well and it wasn’t as comfortable as a bed
but it was better than I had imagined. The bus stopped every
four hours for a rest and we all got out. Everyone was very
friendly and chatted and the atmosphere was almost like a
party. Then, at about eleven o’clock, it all went quiet as people
tried to sleep. When I got out in London, half asleep but
happy, I felt as if I was saying goodbye to old friends. I’m
now planning on doing more travelling by coach.
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