Answer Key
COMPETENCES TESTS Tour guide: … we’re in the players’ tunnel. The players
come through here at the beginning of the
Test 2 match. Come with me.
Written Comprehension Page 1 Amy: Wow, it’s incredible! And it all looks so new.
Mark: Well, it is quite new. It only opened in 2007.
2 1. Big Ben, The Tower of London, Buckingham Palace
Amy: Oh, right.
2. Sky Garden Tour guide: … come and sit down.
3. Knightsbridge, Bayswater Mark: Hey, these are great seats! Imagine
4. Hollywood watching a match from here.
3 1. 155 metres above ground Amy: I really don’t think you can watch a match
from here, Mark.
2. pay
Mark: Why? I’m sure you can buy tickets for these
3. thinner than normal houses seats.
4. only about 1.67 metres Amy: You’re not listening to the tour guide. This is
5. it’s not real the Royal Box. The Queen and her family
6. (street scenes in) Hollywood films sit here.
4 Accept all logical and grammatically correct answers. Mark: Ah, that’s a problem …
1 1. b 2. c 3. c 4. a 5. c 6. a
Written Production Page 2
1 Accept all logical and grammatically correct answers. 2 1. famous than
2. 90,000
2 Accept all logical and grammatically correct answers
3. small than / not as big as
4. (current year minus 2007)
2
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Oral Comprehension Page 3 5. the Queen, her family
Mark: Wow, Amy. I can’t believe we’re at Wembley Oral Production Page 4
Stadium! Accept all logical and grammatically correct answers.
Amy: I know, Mark. Wembley is probably more
famous than any other football stadium in
the world.
Mark: It’s not just a football stadium, though. They
have rugby matches here, too. And other
events. They even have American football
games.
Amy: Really? American football in England?
Mark: Yes, that’s right. My friends and I like
watching American football, and so do
a lot of other people in England.
Amy: I don’t really like American football.
Mark: I know, but don’t forget there are amazing
pop concerts here.
Amy: I know. I really want to come to a pop
concert here.
Mark: Oh good, the tour’s starting. Come on!
Tour guide: … and now we’re walking down the passage
to the stadium.
Amy: This place is enormous!
Mark: Wembley is enormous. It’s got 90,000 seats.
Amy: 90,000? That can’t be true.
Mark: It is true. In Europe, only Camp Nou
Stadium in Barcelona is bigger than
Wembley. It’s got 9,000 more seats than
Wembley.
Amy: Hey, you really know about sports stadiums.
Oh, look! We’re moving again.