Candidate: A2 CERTIFICATE Sample questions Date: Choose the correct alternative: 1 - We are... students. A a the C - 2 - Do you like...? A swimming swim C wimmed 3 - Please... up! A to stand stand C standin 4 - My... job is very interesting. A husband husbands C husband s 5 - She...the paper every morning. A is reading read C reads Pag. 1
6 - We had our... journey in Florida! A very bad worst C baddest 7 - They... in Spain two years ago. A live lived C have lived 8 - It is very close. Let s go... A on foot on feet C by foot 9 - Find the correct word order! Which of these sentences is correct? A We go on Saturday dancing usually We on Saturday usually go dancing. C We usually go dancing on Saturday. Complete the conversations: 10 - Why don t we go to the cinema? A What s on? Tomorrow C The latest film 11 - When are you leaving? A In three days Yesterday C Last Saturday 12 - Could I speak to Mr Smith, please? A Sure. Hold on. What do you want? C No, out! 13 - Who s coming? A Sally is here Sally there is C Sally that is. 14 - Can I open the window, please? It s hot in here. A Sure, you re right It s cold. C Not at all Pag. 2
Match each definition with the correct word: 15 1- You use it to eat or write on it. a. TALE 16 2- You can erase things using it. b. PENCIL 17 3- It is black and you can write in white on it. c. LACKOARD 18 4- You learn from him/her. d. TEACHER 19 5- There may be too much light in your room if you don t have any of this. e. CURTAIN f. PEN 1 g. RUER 2 h. LACK PEN 3 4 5 Choose the correct alternative: 20 Where can you see this notice? A Outside a school C Outside a shop Outside a museum Fill in the gaps choosing the correct alternative: John Snow John Snow 1) born in 1813 in York, England and was the eldest of nine children. When he 2) fourteen, he started working for a surgeon and went on to study medicine. In 1855, a lot of people started dying in an area of London of the illness cholera and John Snow went there to study what was 3). He discovered that the people who had died were drinking 4) same water. efore this study, no one 5) how people got the illness. The results of his study 6) important because they 7) how the illness spread and also 8) to start the science of public health. John Snow 9) very famous and 10) many other studies about this illness since then. 1 21 22 23 24 A is A has A happen A a was 2 had 3 happened 4 as C had C was C happening C the Pag. 3
5 9 25 26 27 28 A knew A is A explaining A help was knowing 6 was 7 explained 8 helping C knowing C were C to explain C helped 29 30 A became A there have been become 10 there is C becomed C there will have True or false? Read the passage and decide if the sentences are true or false. Japan's most famous dog In front of the enormous Shibuya train station in Tokyo, there is a life-size bronze statue of a dog. Even though the statue is very small when compared to the huge neon signs flashing, it isn't difficult to find. It has been used as a meeting point since 1934 and today you will find hundreds of people waiting there for their friends to arrive. Hachiko, an Akita dog,was born in 1923 and brought to Tokyo in 1924. His owner, Professor Eisaburo Uyeno and he were inseparable friends right from the start. Each day Hachiko would accompany his owner, a professor at the Imperial University, to Shibuya train station when he left for work. When he came back, the professor would always find the dog patiently waiting for him. Sadly, the professor died suddenly at work in 1925 before he could return home. Although Hachiko was still a young dog, the bond between him and his owner was very strong and he continued to wait at the station every day. Sometimes, he would stay there for days at a time, though some believe that he kept returning because of the food he was given by street vendors. He became a familiar sight to commuters over time. In 1934, a statue of him was put outside the station. In 1935, Hachiko died at the place he last saw his friend alive. 31 1 The statue of Hachiko is small True False 32 2 The neon signs flashing are big True False 33 3 The statue is difficult to find because there are so many people there True False 34 4 The professor worked in a school True False 35 5 The professor died at work True False 36 6 The link between the dog and his owner was very strong True False 37 7 The dog waited every day at the station True False 38 8 Nobody gave the dog any food True False 39 9 The dog died before the statue was put outside the station True False 40 10 The dog was found dead on a train True False Pag. 4
41 - An American friend asked you some information about the city where you live. Write an e-mail to him/her. (25-35 words) Data Firma Pag. 5
1 C 11 A 21 31 T 2 A 12 A 22 C 32 T 3 13 A 23 C 33 F 4 C 14 A 24 C 34 F 5 C 15 A 25 A 35 T 6 16 G 26 C 36 T 7 17 C 27 37 T 8 A 18 D 28 C 38 F 9 C 19 E 29 A 38 F 10 A 20 A 30 A 40 F Pag. 6