CAP ENGLISH 2021 - 2022

TEACHER ASSESSMENT
Grade 9 ESL

Listening 4

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Areas for Improvement

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Exercise 1

You will hear four short recordings. Answer each question on the line provided. Write no more than
three words, or a number, for each answer.

You will hear each recording twice.

1 (a) What does the man miss about his home country? 1/Friends
Next year
............................................................................................................................................. [1]

(b) When will he next go back there?

2/Got lost
10:30 tomorrow
............................................................................................................................................. [1]
3/Gardening
2 (a) Why did the man arrive late at the dentist’s?
Pizza restaurant
............................................................................................................................................. [1]
4/Son graduation
(b) What time is his next appointment?
Hotel
............................................................................................................................................. [1]

3 (a) What has the woman spent the morning doing?

............................................................................................................................................. [1]

(b) Where does she want to meet her friend?

............................................................................................................................................. [1]

4 (a) What is the woman organising a celebration for?

............................................................................................................................................. [1]

(b) Where is she hoping to have the celebration?

............................................................................................................................................. [1]

[Total: 8]

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Exercise 2

5 You will hear a young businesswoman called Alem talking to students about setting up a business.
Listen to the talk and complete the details below. Write one or two words only in each gap.

You will hear the talk twice.

1/City college
2/company owner
Setting up a business
3/Confidence
The ‘Starting a Business’ course 4/furniture
• classes took place at ................................... 5/plans
• taught by people who had been ................................... 6/advertising
• developing her ................................... was the greatest benefit7/Bigger
of the office
course
8/ stay calm
Alem’s business

• her business buys and sells ................................... from other countries

• first step: created a ................................... for the business (used

websites to help)

• finds doing the ................................... to be the biggest challenge

• hoping to move to ................................... soon

Advice

• important to ................................... for the first few months

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Exercise 3

6 You will hear six people talking about what makes them laugh. For each of speakers 1 to 6, choose
from the list, A to G, which opinion each speaker expresses. Write the letter in the appropriate
box. Use each letter only once. There is one extra letter which you do not need to use.

You will hear the recordings twice.

Speaker 1 A I prefer funny things I watch online to comedies at the

cinema.

Speaker 2
B I often laugh at things that other people don’t find funny.

Speaker 3

C I love watching comedies that are physical, like people

Speaker 4 falling over.

Speaker 5 D I laugh most when my family all get together.

Speaker 6
E I think older comedy is funnier than more recent comedy.

1/E F I watch funny videos on the internet that friends have

recommended.

2/G G I find playing tricks on people extremely funny.

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3/B
4/C
5/A
6/F
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Exercise 4

7 You will hear an interview with a woman called Lisa Holanova, who is a choreographer, which
means she creates dance routines. Listen to the interview and look at the questions. For each
question, choose the correct answer, A, B or C, and put a tick (3) in the appropriate box.

You will hear the interview twice.

(a) What does Lisa like most about her job?

A receiving prizes for the quality of her work

B working with extremely good performers

C seeing her routines performed in a show [1]

(b) What does Lisa find challenging about her job?

A managing the people she works with

B working on so many different projects

C learning a wide range of dance styles [1]

(c) What does Lisa say about a typical working week?

A Every week is extremely busy.

B No two weeks are ever the same.

C Lots of travel is involved each week. [1]

(d) Lisa believes that all choreographers should

A have an optimistic approach to life.

B feel strongly about their work.

C be highly creative people. [1]

(e) What does Lisa say about choreographers’ salaries?

A They are low compared to other jobs.

B They have gone up a lot in recent years.

C They increase as people’s careers develop. [1]

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(f) What does Lisa say about holidays?

A She spends them with friends and family.

B She usually goes away somewhere.

C She never has the chance to take them. [1]

(g) Before trying to find work as a choreographer, Lisa recommends

A taking classes with a range of professionals.

B getting a certificate in a related subject.

C watching as many performances as possible. [1]

(h) What does Lisa think about her career so far?

A Hard work has been the main reason for her success.

B She has been very lucky in getting interesting work.

C Her career has been based on careful planning. [1]

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1/C
2/A
3/B
4/B
5/C
6/A
7/A
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Exercise 5

8 (A) You will hear a woman giving a talk about Charles Babbage, who was a nineteenth century
mathematician and designer. Listen to the talk and complete the notes in Part A. Write one or
two words only in each gap.

You will hear the talk twice.

Charles Babbage

Early life and education

• Born on December 26th, 1791

• tutors
Better at maths than ...................................
at university

Calculating machines
Difference
• The ................................... was the name
engine
of Babbage’s first machine.

• Georg Scheutz developed a similar machine which was used to calculate

planets
the location of ................................... .

Babbage’s later life

• finance
Wanted more publicity and ................................... for science

Since his death

• A later Babbage design was built by London’s Science Museum.

Printer
• The ................................... that was designed to go with this machine was
also built several years later.

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8 (B) Now listen to a conversation between two students about John Atanasoff, who invented the
first electronic computer, and complete the sentences in Part B. Write one or two words in
each gap.

You will hear the conversation twice.

John Atanasoff
electrical engineering
John Atanasoff completed a degree in ................................... .

driving
Atanasoff had just been ................................... when he came up with the ideas for
his computer.

function
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer only had one ................................... , unlike modern
computers.

Atanasoff and Berry were disappointed because the computer calculations were not
reliable
................................... enough.

desk
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was about the size of a ................................... .

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