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Focus2 2E Unit Test Dictation Listening Reading Unit5 GroupB

1. The document contains a listening comprehension test with 5 true/false statements about two friends, Pete and Amy, discussing their future plans. 2. There is a dictation section where the listener writes down sentences they hear. 3. The reading comprehension section features three passages about unusual school situations: a boat school in Bangladesh, a flexible learning academy in Australia, and two siblings who are homeschooled. It then asks five questions matching details to the three accounts.

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Focus2 2E Unit Test Dictation Listening Reading Unit5 GroupB

1. The document contains a listening comprehension test with 5 true/false statements about two friends, Pete and Amy, discussing their future plans. 2. There is a dictation section where the listener writes down sentences they hear. 3. The reading comprehension section features three passages about unusual school situations: a boat school in Bangladesh, a flexible learning academy in Australia, and two siblings who are homeschooled. It then asks five questions matching details to the three accounts.

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UNIT TEST 5 ● GROUP B

Dictation, Listening and Reading

Name: ____________________________________ Listening


Class: ____________________________________ 2 [Track 11] You hear two friends, Pete and Amy,
Total: _ /30 talking about their future. Listen and decide if the
sentences are True (T) or False (F).
Dictation
1 [Track 10] Listen and write the sentences you 1 Pete has made plans for continuing his
hear, including the punctuation. education after he leaves school.

2 Pete thinks he’d like to teach the subject


he’s best at.

3 Amy does not intend to take a year out


after she leaves school.

4 Amy knows she will have to study a long


time to qualify in her chosen job.

5 Pete thinks that Amy might have problems


with her choice of career.

/10

/10

© Pearson 2020 PHOTOCOPIABLE Focus 2 SECOND EDITION (A2+/B1)


UNIT TEST 5 ● GROUP B
Dictation, Listening and Reading

Reading exhausted when we got to school that we couldn’t


3 Read the texts. Match questions 1-5 with the people in keep up with the other students. Our parents
the texts. Write S, K or H. decided that it would be better for us to learn at
home, so they are our teachers now. We each have
Unusual schools our own schedule that our mother helped us to
Saba, Bangladesh make. She teaches us Maths, English, History and
French. Our father teaches us Science and
I’m so lucky that I have a new school. I live in Geography. We both get better grades now
Bangladesh and we have big problems with the although we do have some extra lessons online and
weather. During the rainy season there are a lot of with a tutor who comes to our house. I like it
floods, and my old classroom used to get full of because when we are good at a subject, we can
water and for weeks I missed lessons. My new learn more quickly. We don’t have to wait for other
school is on a boat so even when the weather is bad students to catch up. But I do miss my friends. I go
we can still study. The boat sails along the river and to summer school every year to make friends and
picks up the children close to their homes. Once spend time with other teenagers, but it’s not the
everyone is on the boat, our lessons start. It was same as seeing your friends every day. At least
quite funny at first to feel the room moving as you I have my sister.
learnt Maths, Science and all the other subjects but
I’ve got used to it now. I think it even helps me to
concentrate. It’s not that different to a traditional Who…
classroom really. We have desks, a whiteboard and
even computers. 1 thought their school was unusual at first? ____

Kyle, Australia 2 can see advantages and disadvantages to their


school? ____
When I finished primary school, my parents decided
I had to go to a different school to all my friends. 3 wasn’t happy about their new school before
I was unhappy at first, but I realise now it was they started? ____
a good decision. Lakeside Academy is very different
4 thinks more people would benefit from a school
to most schools. My other friends all have to go to
like theirs? ____
the same compulsory lessons and do everything
they are told to do. At Lakeside, each student has 5 mentions things that they miss about normal
their own learning plan. At the start of each school? ____
semester, every student has a meeting with their
teacher and their parents to discuss their goals and
what they want to focus on. We still have lessons,
but we can choose the subjects that we are most
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interested in or that are most important for us to
improve. All our classes are mixed-ability too so
there is less competition, and we never have to
learn things by heart. There are a few places like this
in Australia, and I hope there will be more in the
future.

Hayley, Wales

My sister and I don’t go to school anymore. The


journey used to take over an hour and we were so

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