Practice KET (A2) Listening Test 13 with Answers and Audioscripts

1 B   2 C   3 B   4 A   5 C

Audioscript

1   What time will the man pick up the woman?

Man:   What time shall I pick you up?

Woman:   I’ve got a late meeting. I won’t be finished until six o’clock.

Man:   Six? I’ll have to wait for half an hour. Can’t you leave earlier? At five thirty?

Woman:   I could probably leave at quarter to six. Can you wait for 15 minutes?

Man:   OK. I might not be there by five thirty, anyway.

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2   Where will they meet?

Man:   Where do you want to meet, Anne?

Woman:   How about outside the cinema?

Man:   But the weather’s terrible. Let’s meet inside somewhere. I might be late.

Woman:   OK, what about the shopping centre next door? You can park the car in the car park there.

Man:   Good idea.

Woman:   OK, then. Just inside the main entrance.

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3   What sort of holiday will they go on?

Man:   We could go to the beach for a few days.

Woman:   Or something a bit different. Helen was telling me about her cycling holiday.

Man:   Cycling? I cycle quite a lot at home.

Woman:   Or sailing. I saw an advertisement for a sailing holiday in Turkey.

Man:   You know I don’t like boats. I prefer bikes to boats.

Woman:   OK, let’s do that, then.

Now listen again.

4   What musical instrument will she learn to play?

Woman:   I think I’m going to learn the piano.

Man:   You can practise on mine. But it’s a bit old.

Woman:   Thanks!

Man:   I’ve got a guitar too, if you want to use it.

Woman:   A guitar? I tried that, but I wasn’t very good. I also tried the violin.

Man:   I love the violin. Why don’t you try again?

Woman:   I want something easier.

Now listen again.

5   What date is the man :S appointment with the dentist?

Woman:   Can you come on the fourteenth?

Man:   Yes, but only after two o’clock.

Woman:   Oh dear. How about the next day?

Man:   The fifteenth? I’m free in the morning. But the day after that, I’m free all day.

Woman:   All day?

Man:   Yes.

Woman:   How about eleven o’clock in the morning?

Man:   Perfect.

Now listen again.

6 first   7 80   8 64   9 24   10 notebook

Audioscript

Woman:   Welcome to the University Language Centre. I’d like to give you some basic information about our evening language classes.

We offer evening classes in English, Italian, French, Russian and Spanish. Classes are in the afternoons or evenings, and they start in the first week of October. Courses are six weeks long, so they end in the middle of November. The English courses are free, but the other language courses cost £80. If you want to learn more than one language, you get a 20% discount, so your second course will cost you just £64.

There are courses for beginners as well as for more advanced students. Most courses have lessons three times a week, but English courses have four lessons a week, so 24 lessons in total.

You don’t need to buy any books, but we suggest that all students should bring a notebook and a pen or pencil to classes. Now, any questions?

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11 C   12 B   13 C   14 A   15 B

Audioscript

Debbie:   Hi Paul. How’s your new job?

Paul:   Hi Debbie. Really good. My new colleagues are fun to work with.

Debbie:   Do you miss your old colleagues?

Paul:   Well, that was the problem with my old job. I almost never saw anyone else.

Debbie:   I expect it’s a big change. What are you doing now?

Paul:   I’m in the office. When customers come in, I give them some documents to complete, check their driving licence, answer any questions, take their money, and give them the keys for the car they’re renting.

Debbie:   Is it a difficult job?

Paul:   No, the job is simple. But when there are a lot of customers and people have to wait for their car, they can get angry.

Debbie:   How many people work there?

Paul:   There are six of us in the office. Then there are nine people who work outside, getting the cars ready, making sure they’ve got petrol, showing customers how things work, …

Debbie:   It sounds better than your last job.

Paul:   It is. I don’t make as much money now, but that’s because I’m new. But soon I’ll be earning more than I was.

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16 A   17 B   18 A   19 C   20 B

Audioscript

16   You will hear a woman talking about her day. Where did she go?

Woman:   I had a lovely afternoon on my own. You know what it’s like – on a weekday there’s almost no one else there. I spent a long time just sitting and looking at one old painting. It was so quiet! I wrote my name in the visitors· book and said how much I enjoyed it.

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17   You will hear a man talking. What has he lost?

Man:   I can’t believe it! I parked my car late last night in the rain and I didn’t notice the name of the street. I couldn’t find it today until I had looked for it for 30 minutes! Then my money and my keys were missing. My money was in my coat pocket, but I don’t know about my keys.

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18   You will hear two friends talking. What will they do this afternoon?

Woman:   Would you like to watch the football game?

Man:   We could, but everyone knows who will win. What about a game of tennis?

Woman:   But it looks like rain! I’d like to watch the game.

Man:   Or we could watch that film we were talking about?

Woman:   If you agree to the football, we can watch the film another time.

Man:   OK, then.

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19   You will hear two friends talking. What will they have for dinner?

Man:   Shall we get a pizza?

Woman:   Didn’t we have one a few nights ago?

Man:   Or fish and chips?

Woman:   The fish and chip shop is closed on Tuesdays. We haven’t had a curry for a long time.

Man:   I don’t like hot food. We have pizza often because we like it.

Woman:   All right, but it’s curry or fish and chips the next time!

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20   You will hear a man talking in a shop. What is he looking at?

Woman:   Can I help you sir?

Man:   Yes, I’m interested in this. The sound is good, but do you have one with a bigger screen?

Woman:   The bigger ones are over here.

Man:   I like that one. That would be good for watching things on.

Woman:   Yes, it’s a popular model. And it has more memory than the one here.

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21 H   22 D   23 F   24 A   25 C

Audioscript

Dean:   It’s Sunday already! Let’s plan our last week.

Kylie:   Well, we can go to the museum tomorrow.

Dean:   Yes, and on Tuesday we could do something for the children. They’d love to see all the baby animals, especially the elephants.

Kylie:   Good idea. And they want to visit Aqualand too.

Dean:   Let’s keep that for Saturday.

Kylie:   So what about looking around the old town on Wednesday? We can join a group and there will be someone to show us around and tell us about the history of the place.

Dean:   Yeah, OK. And I really want to go shopping.

Kylie:   OK, but let’s look around before we buy anything.

Dean:   Good idea. Well, on Thursday, we could go on a boat trip, or visit the palace or go to the fish market.

Kylie:   We can’t do all those things, but I’d love to look at all the seafood for sale.

Dean:   Yes, that would be fun.

Kylie:   And then on Friday we can buy gifts for the neighbours … and I saw some lovely jewellery…

Dean:   And the kids can go swimming on Saturday.

Kylie:   Done!

Now listen again.