7 _ Test 2 Key Reading and Use of English (1 hour 15 minutes) Part 1 1B Be D6 nba Part 2 Qt 10 known 11 from 12 what 13 cit 18 which 16 coming Part 3 17 understanding 22 educational / educative 18 individually 23 location 19 instructions 20 unclear 24 availabilie Part 4 not INTERESTED in | being / becoming 26 WOULD have WOULD've gone / been skating lif 27 haven't have not /"¥e not SEEN | David for / in 28 this computer |is DIFFERENT 29 in SPITE of (the) wind 30 time| [GOT to the A 32C 3B MD 35C 368 7B 38D 39G 4A MF 2B Part 7 BBR MA 40 4A 47D 488 494 SOD sc 52D Writing (1 hour 20 minutes) (Candidate responses are marked using the assessment scale on page 108, | | | Listening (approximately 40, Part 1 1¢ 2B 3 Beer cl ac 9 honey 10 gardens 11 gold 12. tomato. 13 saucer 14 steam (powe 15 (chocolate) press 16 bars milk” 18 moods) Part 3 9B 2c 2 23G 4 MA IC 2B WA WC 2B 30K Transcript This is the Cambridge English: First for Schools, Te you the instructions for tis test, I'll introduce each part of stions. At the start of each piece Yow'l hear each piece t wre li your ansivers on the question paper Remember, whil tening, w ; You'll have five minutes atthe end of the test to copy your answers onto the separate anstwer sheet There will now be a pause. Please ask any questions now, because you must speak during the tes, Ipausel Now opt your question paper and look at Part One [pause]Test 2 Key PART 1 Question 1 Ma Question 2 134 Boy! Gin One. ¥ icher talking to so Now| took this photo when | was on holiday by the se. | was walking long path on the southem coast, To get acre ver that runs into this shallow bay here, hac to head avy from the seashore, And | was struck by the change in character of the soll and what was growing as | got further away from the shore. There was a real contrast between the thin sol on top of the cis thece, and the grass and plants that you can see in the pictur a0 got further inland. Look a the thick woods and green fies here, [pause] [The recording is repeated] [pause] Two. You hear woo friends talking about a bike race they went on: Are you pleased you dd the bike race? Well forty kilometres isa long way to cycle. | was exhausted by the end s0 1 think doing that distance inthe time I cd it was quite an achievernent, even tit was slow compared to some ofthe others. But, you know, inthe last ton kilometres my legs were feeling really sore, | cnt realise just how hard that'd "make i, but! kept going, and I can't say | ever really nought about giving up, | guess we were lucky to get so much encouragement from people watching, IRtmade quite a diference, cc it? [pause The recording is repeated.| Iause] (Question 3 Git Mari Git Git: Question 4 Boy: it: Boy ict: Boy: | don’t know what book to take out this week, Dad. Have you got any idea Well, you used to like stories by Jackie Donald, Perhaps they've got ane of nors that you haven't read yet? Oh, rm not so keen on her now e haven't got all day Well, whatever you choose, please hurry up because we haven't got all day. \What about that blography of the dancer you like, Shall find it for you? But, look, I id promise Mum we'd be home by six, I need a change. Wall do lke stories about people's lives, | suppose. [pause] pause] iends talking Four. You hear two vision prog polar bears. [pause] Did you watch the documentary about those polar bears stuck on an iceberg, for weeks? ‘Yeah, !joved it I've seen lots of programmes about polar bears but this one seemed quite different, The close-ups ofthe bears were amazing but you get that kind of thing in | most wildlife programmes, don't you? “True. But the scenery was fantastic - | syppose It's not hard to make icebergs look impressive, though, But you'd never belive the stuff about why the bears stayed on that iceberg, et 1 never heard of anything You mean because they were scarod to leave? I'd never heard of any lige that before ether. You wouldn't think they'd be aald of anything, pause [The recording is repeated] Ipause]Test 2 Key Question 5 Ques 136 Woman: Boy: Gi Boy: it Five. You hear a teacher talking to a cla. [pause] 0K, im going to ask you to do something rather liferent today. As you know, the school's holding an open day for families and friends in two week” time and we're going to be soling various things to make some money for a chileren's charity. Our class is golng to make some small cakes to sell on the day. Next weok, I'l ask you to Bring in ciffrent ingredients from home and then well make the cakes herein school, But tonight I want you to ask al your friends and relations what thelr favourta kind of cake is, That help us dacide exactly what cakes we're going to make. [pause] The recording is repeated, about a story-writ Six. You hear too friends tal ng competition. Iause] ‘Aro you going to enter that competition our teacher told us about? I think you should. You're great at wrting short stories. Thanks, but you have to write about a wil animal | don’t know much about animals and haven't a clue what | could writa about. | could help you. You could make up a great story about an elephant, for example | did a project on them last year and could give you some background information. I'd want to have part ofthe prize, of course! Wl isa trip to London Zoo for four so you coule come with me and my parents Great! Let's got started! [pause] [The recording is repeated.) [pause] Que Woman: Question 8 Meat Seven, You hear a radio a ‘Scientists studying wildlife are keen to find out more about the creatures that you generally find ling in ity gardene and are asking for your help, if you see Cor hear any birds or animals in your backyard, please get in touch, Last year ‘over a hundred thousand people took part in our similar survey and i's hoped ‘even more wil participate this time. The survey's important because it helps Ls know which types of creature are doing well and which are in dectne. It you're wiling 10 get involved, then log on tothe Nature Count website at \wuvinaturecount.com. We'l give the address agein later in the programme, pause [The recording is repeated [pause] You beara review of a computer game on the radio, [pause] ‘A game that’s been popular for some time in the US has just had is frst release here. Allon Attack starts you of protecting a small mountain vilage {rom attack by allens but you soon find you're actually living in a dream wort. Your adventures then stat to cross over from one word tothe other as your factions in one affect what happens in the other. It ean be tricky to figure out ‘what on earth's going on at some points but, if you're a fan of adventure ‘Games, youl probably love ths one. I's not a good choiee for people new to ‘games lke this, however. [pause] [The recording is repeated.] [pause] That i the end of Part One. Now turn to Part Two, Ipausel138 kate: alled K You'll short phrase, ions 9°18, complete the sente 25 with a word or You now have forty-five seconds to look a 1 Two, My presentation today is about chocolate, When our teacher said we could 4o a history project on any food we liked, | knew straight away what fa ‘choose, because chocolate's my absolute favourite. ‘So where does the story of chocolate begin? More than fiteen hundred years, ago, seed pods from the cocoa tree ware being used to make chocolate by [people in Central America, I discovered that the Mayan civilization in Mexi¢o \Wore the frst paoplo to realise thet cocoa beans are absolutely delicious, ‘They made a chocolate crink, which was sweetened with honey, but which, Incrediy, also contained chili peppers ~ can you imagine that? To begin with, the cocoa pods were collacted from wild trees in the rainforest, bt soon chocolate became s0 popular that people started cultivating them, This was in gardens, however, rather than in fleds on farms. This, of course, made it much easier for people to got hold of chocolate and ts consumption became widespread. ‘Another cllzaton, the Aztecs, learnt from their Mayan neighbours how delicious chocolats was as a dink and they eventually valued it 30 highly that the Deans were accepted as a way of paying taxes, even though gold was Widely available. Cocoa didn't make its way to Europe until the fiteenth century. Spanish ‘explorers in the Americas took it home with them along with the potato, butt Is thought thatthe tomato was taken ovar to Europe even eater than this, Chocolate became fashionable in Europe in the seventeenth century and people used to meetin chocolate houses to chat and drink chocolate ~ a bit tke the way people meet in cafés today. They drank ther chocolate from a special ish with two handles and it was because ofthis that the saucor frst made Its appearance ~ it kept the chocolate from dripping onto people's clathes. in seventeen ninety-five, J. Fry and Sons, an English compary, started to use to grind cocoa beans ne forthe fret time, This was ‘team power to grind cocoa Beans by machine great step forward as up until then, cocoa beans had been ground by hand On hard surfaces such ass ‘Then, in eighteen twenty-cight, a Dutchman invented a chocolate press, a machine which made it pasebie to produce solid chocolate as well as cocoa powder, Tis had a huge Impact on the way chocolate was consumed, as people began to eat chocolate as wel as just drinking ft “The significance of his invention was quickly understood and the fst ever bare of chocolate were manufactured in a factory in England in eighteen forty seven, Solid chocolate rapidly gained in popularity and boxes of chocolates became a favourite form of git on birthdays, for example. to (had aeady begun lo experiment by adding diferent thing Chocolate sucha ser eays ana spices bi wth ation fk, a Suita man Daniel Petr was abot proc, nelghteon very We Chosolate which was sila fo what we woud recogriseas chocolat today The good news fr chocolat eters todays that t's not ony delicous butt Can ae be god for You Sli sues have proved tat chocolate has pentiv et on your ood, Some researcher lo think that eating le Bitar chocolate every day can ower yourboos pres, Pu the sits trot conus So what I like to do now ls move on to talk about how chocolate is made today and the most interesting thing {pausel Now you'll hear Part Two a [The recording is repeated. ] That isthe end of Part Ti Now turn to Part Thre {pause} 139Test 2 Key PART 3 140 You'l hear five short extracts in wb day out at an activity centre. For questions only once. There are three extn tach speaker says ty you do not need to ws. You now have thirty seconds to look at Part Three. [pause] Speaker 1 [pause] Me and my brother have ust spent a day ata dry ski slope with our ded, He's really good so sacly he went off on his own after he'd fixed us up with hired boots and skis. Then, we had our fst lesson, In a group of six, we leat all about waking, sliding, controling speed and safety. It was abit tough but we'd both lke to keep going till we can doit properly Infact, Mum's promised to get us our own boots and skis if we stick with it~ we can go and have a holiday where there's proper snow. That'd be so brilliant, speaker 2 [pause] [My mum found out about this climbing centre by chance and thought it be a fun thing for me to try With a frand. Before you go on the climbing wal you have to learn some basic techniques and study the safely rules. As long as you're over twelve, though, you can go unaceempaniod by a grown-up, ‘Which sulted me fine actually. There was a shop saling al sorts of climbing {gear and equipment for other sports too so my folks had somewhere to hang fut. hope to go again one day "cause I'm keen to leam al sorts of climbing techniques, {pause Speaker 3 [pause) ‘My parents took me and two fiends to fantastic outdoor activity park last \wookend, twas @ huge place with lots of amazing things to do. Like, quad bikes you could hire, boats you could row, a sort of rope path you could walk ‘on through the trestops, an area for observing birds. We only eav and did ‘bout half of the things there, which was a bit disappointing so | hope we can go back soon. Mum and Dad did some ofthe activites with us ~ike we all went out in & bost together, but mostly they just eat and drank coffee while we did stu ‘Speaker 4 Iause] Last Saturday | got taken to pottery studio, Fst we chose a plan piece of Pottery ~ lke a vase of bowl or whatever — and you had to decorate — you ‘could like paint it any way you liked. did a mug and palnted a hoavy meta slogan on It. Thece ware like staff around who could come tothe rescue f you really messed up, but | managed on my own, When we'd finished, the stuf! hhad to goin a sort of oven and we're going back next weekend to pick up. | ‘can't wait to see how i's turned out! [pause] Speaker 5 [pause] Last weekend, my parents took me and two fiends to this activity centre based around a strange underground cave. We went down really steep, long winding passages - the wals all decorated with shells, made into pretty patiorns like mosaics. Dad told us thatthe piace had been discovered by ‘cident around a huncred and seventy years ago when a local farmer ‘was digging out a pond, but that is probably over five hundred years old Nobody really knows who made it or what it was used fr. I'd love to solve the mystery myself one day. Mum bought us some postcards in the souvenir shop, but we didn’t bother going round the othor stuff there Ipause Now you'll hear Part Three again cording is repeated. pause] That isthe end of Part Three, Now turm to Part Four. [pause] utTest PART 4 142 Intowiower Poppy: Interviewer: Poppy Interviews Poppy: Interviewer: Poppy: Interviewer: ar an interview with a ge called Poppry Wallace, who sings ina git ror questions 24-30, choose the best answer (A, B and called GirlSong. it Part Pow TTody I'm talking to Poppy Wallace, lead singer with GirSong, the popular ‘9 band. Poppy, GitSong has been one ofthis year’s most drama success Storias. It must've been an exciting time for you. ‘Absolutely t's been amazing, We've been so lucky. We've had to doa lot ‘of work over the past year, of course, and we only got together just before that. Everyone we met in the music business was always really xcited about ‘our sound and said we'd make it big, but none of us thought our time would ‘come so soon. I's great that it has! 1m sure. You've just completed your fist intemational tour. How was that? It was great! We'd done a couple of short tours inthis country so we were already reasonably confident infront of large auciences. But it was excting to make new fans al over the world. twas just a pity we were moving on all the time and couldn't really get to know people. Next time, well try to bul ir more opportunites for contact with our fan base. As a band, we've got even closer to each ather than we were before whichis brillant! | know thet, sometimes things can become quite tense within groups on tour. 'm glad that alan happen wo us. ‘You were joined on tour by Leo, a singer who's been around for over ton years now. How did that come about? ‘Weil, we were doing some recording a the studios near here and! a the end: ‘ofthe frst day our agent told us he'd just seen Leo walking down the stairs. \We joked about how good it would be to work together, never dreaming itd ‘actually happen, Next day, there was a message for us. The studlo manager had asked 80 to listen to one of the tracks we'd recorded. He loved it and wanted to ty doing something together, It really was a droam come true! [And you're going to be working with Leo again. Are you looking forward toi? Wel, of course i'l be a grest opportunity to record an album with him. I can't {deny thal. The thought ofall those people pointing cameras at us everywhere we go, though, is quite scary really. | mean wo'e always having to write songs to deadlines and rehearse for long hours so we're used to that sort of stress. \When you're on an international tour, do you have time to enjoy yourselves? Poppy: Interviewer: Poppy: Interviewers Poppy: Interviewer Up toa point. We play in some amazing places and I'd love to spend some time sightseeing — we rarely got the opportunity unfortunately, But | always find out how to say the basi things to people without using English and that’s {great fun. And before going anywhere, we try to find out a bit more about the folk music ofthe area and even watch other singers perform fora change, Right. You come trom Barbados. Do you often get back there? ‘Wel, though my family comes from Barbados, | was actually born in London but I've avays spent all of my holidays there because I've got lots of relatives fn the island, The beaches are popular places for hanging out with friends, They're quite crowded though so sitting around strumming guitars with ry ‘mates in my uncle's garden = that's what dove it for mel And then there’s the food, that’s pretty good too, of course. ‘AS a young kid who was your special musical hero?” | cortainly had heroes but it was only when | gota bit older that | became a big fan ofa local singer because | could realy relate to her songs. When | was: kid, my idol was a gir from my favourite series of cartoon films. She had lots of adventures and I'm afraid | used to admire the way she'd ignore what her teacher told her to doin clas, The only lessons | liked ware geography and I did have a wonder ul teacher ~ I appreciate that now — though I didn't realise tat the time, Sure. And how about the tpavse] Now youl hear Part Four again [The recording is repeated] pause] That is the end of Part Fou There will now be a pause of five minutes for you to copy your answers onto the separate answer sheet. Be cure ta follow the numbering of all the questions. IU remind you wher there's one minute left so that You're sure to finish in tie [Teacher, pause the recording here for five minutes, Remind students when they have one minute left] That isthe end ofthe test. Please stop now. Your supervisor will now collect all the question papers and answer sheets,