The 19th of January 2023

Listening Test

 Listen to the audio and choose the correct answer.

1. Ruth is from a small village near….

a) Nottingham
b) Northumberland
c) Notting Hill

2. Sherwood Forest is where …….. supposedly lived.

a) King Arthur
b) Little Red Riding Hood
c) Robin Hood.

3. Ruth is from a ……………. village.

a) farming
b) mining
c) fishing

4. Ruth mentions that her village has a ………..

a) cinema
b) post office
c) supermarket

5. Ruth doesn’t like the ……………. of the city.

a) noise
b) boys
c) toys
 My name’s Ruth and I’m from a small village in England. I live quite near
Nottingham and I’ve lived there for most of my life actually.

Nottingham is quite famous for Sherwood forest, where Robin Hood was supposed to
live and as a child I spent some of my time in Sherwood Forest playing. I live in a village and
it’s actually a mining village with about 1,000 or 1,500 inhabitants. There’s really not very
much to do there. There’s a shop and a post office, a school and my mom teaches at that
school.

I did actually live in Edinburgh for one year and that was quite different from life in
my village because there was so much more to do and there were so many more people and
there was so much more traffic, but I think actually I prefer living in the village because,
well, if you want to go out to the shops, if you want to go to the cinema, you can go to the
nearest town, or to the nearest city, but you can always escape city life and you can always go
back to where it’s quiet and more peaceful and where everybody knows each other, but if you
live in the city you can’t really escape it, and I don’t really like the noise of the city so I think
I will probably live in a village for the rest of my life.