TEST 9

11 B   12 B   13 A   14 A   15 C

Audioscript

Jan:   Hi, Steve!

Steve:   Hi, Jan. I’m going to go to London on the train. Come with me!

Jan:   But it’s cheaper by bus.

Steve:   I’ve got a student travel card. You can get cheap train tickets with it.

Jan:   That sounds good. How much does it cost?

Steve:   A card for six months is sixteen pounds.

Jan:   So how do I get one?

Steve:   You need some photographs – one for the card and one for the form.

Jan:   Oh. There’s a photo machine in the post office. It gives you four photos for three pounds.

Steve:   So does the one in the library. But I went to a photographer’s shop. It was cheaper.

Jan:   I don’t have to show my passport or my driving licence, do I?

Steve:   That’s right, Jan, you only need a letter from your college.

Jan:   I’ll ask my teacher for one.

Steve:   And then you take everything to the tourist office, by the travel agent’s.

Jan:   Great, next time you go to London, I’ll come too!

TEST 10

11 A   12 B   13 A   14 C   15 C

Audioscript

Friend:   Peter, you’re learning to drive, aren’t you? Do you go to the AA Driving School?

Peter:   Actually it’s called the ABC Driving School.

Friend:   Is it expensive? I want to learn to drive.

Peter:   It’s cost me a hundred and forty pounds already. I’ve had ten lessons and each one is fourteen pounds.

Friend:   Is that for an hour?

Peter:   Mm … less than that – about three quarters of an hour.

Friend:   I see. And is the teacher’s car new?

Peter:   Yes, and it’s not a big car so parking’s easy, but it doesn’t go very fast!

Friend:   When are you going to take your driving test?

Peter:   I failed it last week. The traffic lights were red but I didn’t see them and I couldn’t brake in time.

Friend:   Never mind. You can take the test again. Tell me about your teacher. Is he friendly?

Peter:   He’s OK, he’s quite young and interesting to talk to, but my father will give me my next lessons. He’s cheaper!

Friend:   Well, good luck!

TEST 11

11 B   12 B   13 B   14 A   15 C

Audioscript

Mark:   Hello, Jenny. What are you doing here?

Jenny:   Mark! Hello! This is my daughter, Sarah. It’s the school holidays so we’re shopping now – we’re not sure what to do after that.

Mark:   Well, there’s a show for children this afternoon in the library where I work.

Jenny:   Oh? What time is the show?

Mark:   It starts at two and finishes at three thirty. It’s only quarter past one now. What about that?

Jenny:   How much is a ticket?

Mark:   Well, it’s one pound fifty for adults and seventy-five pence for children. Programmes are twenty-five pence.

Jenny:   And does your library do a reading course in the holidays?

Mark:   Yes, and if children under ten, like Sarah, read four books in six weeks, we give them something to take home.

Jenny:   What, like, a book?

Mark:   Well, this year it’s a pen but sometimes it’s a book or a school bag. Meet me after the show and I’ll tell you what to do.

Jenny:   Thanks. See you later then.

TEST 12

11 A   12 C   13 C   14 A   15 B

Audioscript

Man:   Can I help you?

Woman:   I’d like some information about the mountain park. I’ve got seven days’ holiday next month.

Man:   Yes, certainly.

Woman:   First, I’d like to book somewhere to stay.

Man:   I’m afraid there’s nothing in the park, just a small café, that’s all. The nearest guest-house is in a village a few kilometres away.

Woman:   Has the village got somewhere to swim or a cinema?

Man:   It’s very quiet. There’s just a small supermarket that sells food.

Woman:   I don’t mind that. Can I take my car to the park?

Man:   Yes. But you must leave it at the entrance with the other cars and buses. Visitors must walk through the park.

Woman:   And how much does it cost to go in?

Man:   From Mondays to Fridays everyone pays twelve dollars, but at weekends it’s thirteen dollars for children and sixteen dollars for adults.

Woman:   Right. Will I see any animals in the park next month?

Man:   I don’t think so. But it’s the best time to go! There won’t be any snow and the flowers will be beautiful.

TEST 13

11 B   12 A   13 C   14 A   15 B

Audioscript

Sue:   Have you been to the new sports centre, Jim?

Jim:   Yes, Sue. It’s not cheap, but it’s big and light.

Sue:   Does bus eighteen go there?

Jim:   That’s right. It takes fifteen minutes. Don’t get bus twenty-five because you have to walk a long way.

Sue:   I like doing sport early in the morning. Is it open at seven?

Jim:   Yes, you can go there from six, except on Sundays. Then it doesn’t open until nine. The swimming pool has good hot showers; you have to bring your own towel but you can get soap there. They don’t make you wear a swimming hat.

Sue:   Do they sell things to eat there?

Jim:   Only sandwiches; they don’t sell drinks. I usually take some fruit.

Sue:   I’d love to go with you next week. How about Wednesday?

Jim:   Well, I work until late on Wednesday. I’m free on Saturday but it’s too busy then. It’ll have to be Thursday.

Sue:   OK. See you then.

TEST 14

Answer & Audioscript

11 A   12 B   13 B   14 C   15 C

Audioscript

Friend:   Anne, have you been to that new shopping centre?

Anne:   The Forest Centre?

Friend:   No. I mean Queen’s, the new one near the river.

Anne:   Oh. I’ve seen the advertisement. It’s got the largest café and bookshop in the country.

Friend:   It will have. Only the clothes shops are open this month.

Anne:   Well, that’s OK. But it’s at least thirty kilometres away and I haven’t got a car.

Friend:   Well, there is a coach once a week.

Anne:   Is there? I can get that if it’s not on Saturday. I have to work then.

Friend:   It goes on Tuesday. But it’s best to get your ticket on Monday.

Anne:   Is the ticket expensive?

Friend:   Ten pounds eighty for adults, two pounds fifty for children and only five pounds sixty for students like you.

Anne:   Not bad. Does it go from the bus station?

Friend:   Yes, and it stops in Market Square and outside the museum in Broad Street.

Anne:   Oh, good. I’ll get it there. Broad Street is really near my house. Does it leave early?

Friend:   Twenty past nine and you get to the shopping centre forty minutes later at ten o’clock.

Anne:   Great!

TEST 15

11 B   12 B   13 A   14 C   15 C

Audioscript

Friend:   I tried to phone you yesterday.

Diane:   Oh, sorry. I was busy all day and then I went to London in the evening for a meal with some friends.

Friend:   Did you take your car?

Diane:   I left it at home. Parking’s such a problem. But the underground was closed for repairs so I had to take the bus. It was quite slow.

Friend:   Did you go to your favourite Spanish restaurant?

Diane:   I was hoping to try some Mexican food but my friends booked a table in a Chinese place.

Friend:   Was it expensive?

Diane:   Quite cheap actually, and the food was very good – but it’s only a small restaurant so a lot of people had to wait for tables – and it was quite noisy.

Friend:   You didn’t stay there and talk afterwards then!

Diane:   We went for a walk along the river. It was too late for the cinema.

Friend:   Didn’t you get wet? It rained here all evening.

Diane:   The wind was very cold but it stayed dry.

Friend:   And then it snowed during the night!

Diane:   That was after I got home. But I had a really good evening!