Certificate in

ESOL Skills for Life

Entry 1 — Reading
July 2011

Your full name:

(block capitals)

Centre: Date:

Candidate registration number:

Time allowed: 30 minutes

Please answer all questions. Write your answers in pen, not pencil.
You may not use dictionaries. You may not use correction fluid.

Examiner’s use only

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Certificate in ESOL Skills for Life

Entry 1 — Reading
Time allowed: 30 minutes
This examination paper has 15 questions. Answer all questions.

Task 1

Read the text below and then answer questions 1–10.

a.person@email.com

Hello

Dear Usha
How are you? Do you like your new job at Valley School?
I am in my English class now. My teacher is called John. He’s very kind. His wife is called
Sally. They live in a flat near the college.
I have two friends in the class. Their names are Ahmed and Ali. Our English lessons are on
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. On Thursdays we go to an accounting class. We do our
homework in the café.
With love from your brother
Jared

Questions

1. This text is (Please circle the letter of the correct answer)

A an instruction
B an email
C a form

2. Where is Jared?

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Questions

3. Usha and Jared are (Please circle the letter of the correct answer)
A brother and sister
B friends
C husband and wife

4. Where does Usha work?

5. John is (Please circle the letter of the correct answer)

A single
B divorced
C married

6. Who is very kind? (Please circle the letter of the correct answer)
A Sally
B John
C Ahmed

7. Where does Jared do his homework?

8. When doesn’t Jared have an English class? (Please circle two days)

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

9. Who lives in a flat near the college? (Please circle the letter of the correct answer)
A Usha and Jared
B John and Sally
C Ahmed and Ali

10. What does Jared study? (Please circle the letter of the correct answer)
A English and teaching
B accounting and computers
C English and accounting

Please turn over

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Task 2

Castle Town Sandy Town Market Town

H BIKE BIKE
ROUTE ROUTE

Look at the information above and answer the questions.

Questions
(Please circle the letter of the correct answer)

11. There is a library in

A Castle Town and Market Town
B Market Town and Sandy Town
C Sandy Town and Castle Town

12. Which town has a hospital?

A Castle Town
B Sandy Town
C Market Town

13. In Sandy Town you can

A catch a train
B recycle rubbish
C go swimming

14. You can’t park your car in

A Castle Town
B Sandy Town
C Market Town

15. Which sentence is correct?

A There is a bicycle route in Castle Town.
B You can’t ride your bicycle in Market Town.
C You can ride your bicycle in Sandy Town.

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