Examination Specification Level B2 (Grade 11)

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SECTION 3. Writing (40 minutes)
Relationship:You have become friends with someone through the internet. Now your friend wants to know more about you, where you live, and your family.
Write an email. Write between 120 and 180 words.
SECTION 4. Speaking (10 minutes)

Leisure: Part 1

1. 
   What do you usually do in your spare time?
   
2. 
   Is there anything special you do at the weekends?
   
3. 
   Do you have your favorite place where you can relax?
   

Part 2

1. 
   Describe a leisure activity you do with your family You should say
   

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  What it is
  
• 
  When you do it
  
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  Where you do it
  

And explain how you feel about it

5. 
   does not exercise the whole body.
   

6. 
   Football players
   

5. 
   only get injured during matches.
   
6. 
   need to train often to feel any benefit.
   
7. 
   get a lot of benefit from just 90 minutes a week.
   
8. 
   need to be very fit in order to start playing.
   

7. 
   In the past, walking
   

5. 
   was not a common form of exercise.
   
6. 
   was always done more quickly.
   
7. 
   was not considered as exercise.
   
8. 
   was not as safe as it is today.
   

ANSWERS FOR THE READING

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SECTION 3. Writing (40 minutes)
Relationship
You have become friends with someone through the internet. Now your friend wants to know more about you, where you live, and your family.
Write an email. Write between 120 and 180 words.




SECTION 4. Speaking (10 minutes)

Leisure

Part 1

4. 
   What do you usually do in your spare time?
   
5. 
   Is there anything special you do at the weekends?
   
6. 
   Do you have your favorite place where you can relax?
   

Part 2

1. 
   Describe a leisure activity you do with your family You should say
   

• 
  What it is
  
• 
  When you do it
  
• 
  Where you do it
  

And explain how you feel about it

Track Variant 4.

SECTION 1. Listening (15 minutes)21

Travelling: Listen and match the places with the things you hear. There are three options you do not need to use.

1. 
   the Seychelles, the Maldives and the Caribbean
   
2. 
   Mexico and Cuba
   
3. 
   Spain
   
4. 
   Malta, the South of France and Croatia
   
5. 
   Morocco and Tunisia
   

1. 
   has a special appeal for British people
   
2. 
   has a long history of tourism
   
3. 
   more people are going to these places this year
   
4. 
   are attracting more tourists
   
5. 
   you can still get cheaper packages here
   
6. 
   has been popular for 20 years or so
   
7. 
   business is down 5% this year
   
8. 
   are attracting a lot of visitors
   

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ANSWERS FOR THE LISTENING

SECTION 2. Reading (30 minutes)
Part 1.Entertainment: Read the text and answer
For me, becoming an actor was a painful process. I suppose you could say that my first performance was in the school play, at the age of 12. One of my teachers had told me (not asked me!) to play the leading role. I was given a script to take home for the weekend and told that rehearsals would begin on Monday. ‘All you have to do is learn the first ten pages,’ he told me. Well, I studied that script for hours but when Monday came, it soon became clear that I hadn’t actually learned anything. I had been reading the lines but they hadn’t stayed in my memory – not a word! So for that rehearsal, I did it with the script in my hand. My teacher was angry and I couldn’t convince him that I had really worked hard – it was just that nobody had ever taught me how to learn lines like that. In the end, the only way I was able to learn my part was by getting together after school with the other members of the cast. As hard as I tried, it was impossible to make any progress alone. I can’t remember very much about the actual performance except that I liked doing it. I remember thinking that I had almost become the character that I was playing. While I was on stage, it was not me speaking – it was him. I had become, somehow, another person, and I liked it! The audience were really appreciative and people kept congratulating me afterwards. My teacher’s face was unforgettable. He was so happy. But despite all this, I never once thought it was because I was a good actor.
All I could think was that they were happy that I had remembered to speak in all the right places.
Later, I stopped being an amateur and I tried to make a living from acting. My first job as a professional was standing up on a stage and telling jokes. Night after night I went home miserable. I often thought of giving it all up, especially when I read the terrible things critics wrote in their reviews. The people who came to see me didn’t get my jokes and they didn’t find anything I said funny. In fact they hated

Read the text and write true (T) or false (F).

1. 
   It was difficult for the writer to become an actor.
   
2. 
   For the school play, he had to learn the whole script in a weekend.
   
3. 
   That weekend, he tried hard to learn his lines.
   
4. 
   By the time of his first rehearsal, he couldn’t remember anything.
   
5. 
   The performance itself was uncomfortable for him.
   

Part 2.