Practice English Listening Test for A2 – Listening for Numbers and Missing Words Test #7

1 History/history   2 dentist   3 meeting (at South Television)  

4 Follow   5 Saffron

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GIRL:   Mum. Can my friend Daisy come here after school on Monday?

WOMAN:   Not on Monday, Jane. You’re going to Vicky’s house, remember?

GIRL:   Oh, yes, of course. I forgot. I’m going to look after her baby.

WOMAN:   Look, I’m writing it in the family diary, so you won’t forget.

GIRL:   Oh, can you write something for me, under Tuesday?

WOMAN:   Yes. What shall I write?

GIRL:   ‘Jane’s History Exam.’

WOMAN:   Ooh, yes. That’s important.

GIRL:   And something else. Jack has to go to the doctor’s on Wednesday morning. He told me.

WOMAN:   Your brother Jack gets everything wrong! He has to go to the dentist then. I’ve told him three times.

GIRL:   When is Dad going to go to London?

WOMAN:   On Thursday morning, very early. He’s going to fly this time.

GIRL:   Really? What’s he going to do there?

WOMAN:   He has an important meeting at South Television.

GIRL:   Oh, right. Mum, could we go to the cinema on Friday evening?

WOMAN:   Um, yes, all right. There’s a new film with Sally Gold – what’s it called – ‘Find That Star’?

GIRL:   No, Mum. It’s ‘Follow That Star’.

WOMAN:   Well, let’s go and see that.

GIRL:   Could we go to a restaurant before the film starts?

WOMAN:   No, Jane. We’re going out for dinner on Saturday, remember? For your father’s birthday.

GIRL:   Oh, yes. Sorry. Where are we going to do?

WOMAN:   To the Saffron Restaurant. Ooh, how do you spell that?

GIRL:   Oh, Mum – it’s S-A-double F-R-O-N. And they have really good mango ice cream there.

WOMAN:   I know. It’s your father’s favourite, too!

1 at/in a factory   2 train   3 7.30/seven thirty/half past seven  

4 cakes   5 (a) uniform

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BOY:   Aunt Lucy, I have to do some homework about different jobs.

WOMAN:   Do you? Well, you can write about my job!

BOY:   OK. You’re a cook, aren’t you?

WOMAN:   That’s right. I love my job.

BOY:   I have to ask you five questions about your job.

WOMAN:   OK. What’s the first one?

BOY:   Where do you work, Aunt Lucy?

WOMAN:   I work at a factory.

BOY:   OK. I have to write down the answers.

WOMAN:   That’s OK.

BOY:   And how do you go to work? Do you go on the bus?

WOMAN:   I can’t do that. It takes too long so I go on the train.

BOY:   OK. And what time do you have to start work every day?

WOMAN:   Oh, very early! I start at half past seven, but I have to leave home at seven o’clock.

BOY:   That IS early! And what do you make at the place where you work?

WOMAN:   We make cakes.

BOY:   Wow! What a great job! Do you eat some of them?

WOMAN:   No! If you make them all day, you don’t want to eat them!

BOY:   And my last question. What do you have to wear there?

WOMAN:   We all have to wear a uniform. I like it. It looks nice, too.

BOY:   Good. Well, thanks for answering my questions. Can I come and visit you at work one day?

WOMAN:   I don’t know. Perhaps.

1 June   2 Burley   3 10/ten (children)  

4 (a) rucksack   5 insects

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BOY:   Mum! Miss Right a school is going to take some of us on a camping holiday! Can I go?

WOMAN:   For how long?

BOY:   It’s just for three days!

WOMAN:   Oh! I see.

WOMAN:   When is this holiday?

BOY:   She’s going to leave on June 6th and come back home on the 9th.

WOMAN:   Hmm. I must write that in my diary. All right. And where will you camp?

BOY:   On a farm. It’s called Burley Farm. That’s B-U-R-L-E-Y. Miss Right wrote it on the board.

WOMAN:   Oh, I know. It’s near the forest. We went there on holiday once. Do you remember?

BOY:   No!

WOMAN:   You were very little. But I have a few more questions.

BOY:   OK.

WOMAN:   How many children are going to go?

BOY:   Only ten children and there will be two teachers with us. That’s OK, isn’t it?

WOMAN:   Yes. What do you have to take with you?

BOY:   We don’t need to take any tents. The teachers will bring them, but I will have to take a rucksack to carry things in.

WOMAN:   OK, and what are you going to do on this holiday? Sports? Learn about the farm animals there?

BOY:   No. We’re going to learn about insects. We’re going to watch them, draw them and take pictures of them.

WOMAN:   That sounds interesting! Perhaps I’ll come too!

BOY:   Mum! You can’t! You’re too big!