OUTCOMES INTERMEDIATE EOI TEST 2

KEY

READING LISTENING
1E 2G 3C 4I
1D 2F 3G 4I 5A 6J 7H
5K 6C 7H
8F 9T 10 F 11 F 12 T
8b 9a 10 c 11 b 13 F 14T 15 F 16 T 17 F
12 c 13 a
18 2-part
14 IT 19 a negative effect
15 BY 20 off the coast
16 WHY 21 the nineteenth century
17 OFTEN 22 has doubled
18 WHERE 23 cats and rats
19 WAY 24 local communities
25 imported into the area
20 age 18–21
21 No, only very few VIDEO LISTENING
22 Eurotunnel
23 a passport or valid identity card Text 1
24 25 1T 2F 3F 4T
25 nothing 5F 6T 7T 8F

USE OF ENGLISH Text 2

1c 2c 3b 4b 9F 10 T 11 F 12 T 13 T
5a 6b 7d 8b 14 F 15 F 16 F 17 T
9d 10 b 11 a 12 a
13 c 14 b 15b Text 3
18 a 19 a 20 b 21 b 22 a
16 b 17 b 18 b 20 c 23 c 24 b 25 b
21 a 22 b 23 a 24 a 25 a

Outcomes Intermediate EOI Test 2 – Key 1

AUDIOSCRIPTS

Narrator Listening comprehension. This test has three tasks. You will hear each
recording twice.

Task 1

Narrator You will hear seven extracts. Read through the headings A–J before
listening. For each extract 1–7 choose the heading that best matches
the information you have heard. There are two headings you will not
need and an introductory extract as an example. Now read the
headings.

Narrator Example
Presenter There’s a lot on in the city this weekend. We asked our reporters to
recommend a few of the more interesting events.
Speaker 0 I’ve always been interested in good food, so the opening of the new
Centre Bistro in Market Street is one event I have no intention of
missing. The bistro specialises in fish and seafood dishes, and
promises tastes and flavours from all over the world. On opening night
there will be live jazz music and a tasting menu, so if you get the
chance, why not try booking one of the few remaining tables?

Narrator Extract 1
Speaker 1 Phil Buckett has been leading people around the city in search of
ghosts and spirits for over ten years, and he’s become quite an expert
on both the history of the ancient streets in the centre and the
mysterious characters who once lived there. Dressed in black hat and
coat, and carrying a nineteenth-century lantern, Phil really looks the
part as he leads his late-night tour of the narrow streets near the old
theatre. On his tour, he tells the frightening story of Mad Tom Grim
who was hanged for murder, and shows people the house where Wild
Mary Clark once lived and died. It’s an exciting and scary night out,
and I’ll be joining Tom at midnight on Saturday.

Narrator Extract 2
Speaker 2 At this time of year, there are so many exciting things to do in the city,
ranging from award-winning outdoor theatre to a world-famous indoor
tennis tournament. My choice for the weekend, though, is a little bit
unusual. Paintings at the Port, sponsored by the Madison Hotel
Group, is a unique opportunity to see some of the work of the
country’s best contemporary artists in an unexpected setting – the
Port Shopping Centre in Museum Street. Held on Friday and Saturday
evening after the shops have all closed, the show aims to introduce
paintings to people who would not normally make their way to a
gallery.

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Narrator Extract 3
Speaker 3 Among this weekend’s new releases, the stand-out choice has to be
the new thriller The Bandit, directed by Mark Foot. Having made his
name in theatre, this is Foot’s directorial debut in the world of cinema,
and if the reviews are to be believed, it is going to be one of the
successes of the year. Performances by newcomers Daisy Rowe and
David Hart have also been highly praised in the press. My only advice
is to take a box of tissues, as there are sad scenes as well as funny
ones.

Narrator Extract 4
Speaker 4 Having two left feet myself, I’m always full of admiration for anybody
who can waltz around a room. That’s why I’m heading for the show
Broadway Spectacle at the Grand Theatre on Saturday evening. It
features some of the performers on the recent TV show Best Foot
Forward, on which celebrities learnt how to foxtrot and tango. Only
Broadway Spectacle won’t star the celebrities, but the professional
dancers who trained them, including the incredibly talented Milos
Karadaglic. It’s going to be a fantastic show, featuring choreography
from some of the great movie dance sequences.

Narrator Extract 5
Speaker 5 There’s only one place to be this weekend, and that’s the Ice Palace,
where the Snow Leopards are playing the Polar Bears in what
promises to be one of the key ice hockey matches of the season.
Canadian superstar Greg Lamont returns after injury to boost the
chances of the Leopards causing an upset and beating the Bears for
the first time in three years.

Narrator Extract 6
Speaker 6 This weekend, Stone, the recently reformed American rock band, are
live at Market Hall, and it’s the hottest ticket in town. Featuring Sly
Griff on drums, and Leroy Hooper on bass, Stone will be playing all
their classics as well as some new stuff from the latest album. For
many of their younger fans in this country, who have only ever seen
them perform on TV, it’s going to be spectacular.

Narrator Extract 7
Speaker 7 Last summer, a purpose-built venue to showcase the history of the
cinema in this country was completed near the football stadium in
Lake Park. It’s a wonderful place which takes you through all the
major moments in the development of films by means of interactive
displays. It also has some fascinating objects, including a camera that
dates back to 1900. This weekend a new exhibition on comedy films
of the 1930s begins with a guided tour from expert Tom Cruikshank.
I’ll be going along and will write a review of the event in my regular
blog.

Outcomes Intermediate EOI Test 2 – Key 3

Task 2
Narrator You will hear a radio programme where two people talk about the
development of two famous board games. Read through the
sentences below and decide if sentences 8–17 are True (T) or False
(F) according to what you hear. Sentence 0 has been done as an
example. Now read the sentences.
Speaker 1 You must have heard of Scrabble, the incredibly popular word game
which, in the English-speaking world at least, is so popular that just
about every household in countries like the USA and UK has one. In
the game, players have to randomly pick out letters on small plastic
tiles from a bag, and then put them together to form words on a board.
Millions of sets have been sold worldwide, and it really can claim to be
just about the most popular board game in the world.
The story behind its invention is an interesting one. Back in the 1930s,
an American architect called Alfred Butts was keen to create a game
based on the idea of forming words from letters. He had already come
up with one game, called Lexiko, but he wanted to improve on it,
which he was able to do by adding a game board with squares. He
called the game Criss-Crosswords and started manufacturing the
game. It was almost identical to the game we know today. However,
no major manufacturers at the time we were interested in his
invention, so he didn’t make much money and he soon gave up on the
idea of making a success of his game.
Ten years later, a man called James Brunot bought the rights to Butts’
game, changed the layout of the squares on the board a bit, and
thought of a new name: Scrabble. Like Butts, however, Brunot failed
at first to make any money from the game, despite manufacturing
thousands of sets. Then in 1952, Brunot had a big break. The
president of Macy’s, America’s largest department store, played the
game on holiday that summer and loved it. Before long, Macy’s was
stocking the game and selling it in thousands. And the rest, as they
say, is history.
Speaker 2 You may have played Monopoly. It’s a board game in which you move
round a board that has the names of streets and places from a well-
known city on it, and you buy the streets and put houses and hotels
on them. Every time other players land on your streets, you ask them
to pay you rent. Apart from Scrabble, and the ancient board games of
chess, draughts and backgammon, Monopoly has sold more sets than
any other board game. It really is an amazing success story, and yet
its beginnings were quite controversial.
In the early twentieth century, early versions of the game were
produced and played by people who wanted to use it to promote their
own economic theories. They wanted to use the game to show that
monopolies, in which one person controlled a particular industry, were
a bad thing, and that free enterprise was a good thing. By the 1930s,
different versions of the game with many different names were being
played by various wealthy families. It was then that a businessman

Outcomes Intermediate EOI Test 2 – Key 4

 called Charles Darrow sold the rights to his version of the game,
which he called Monopoly. He sold the rights to a well-known games
manufacturer called Parker Brothers, and made a lot of money. It was
a huge success almost immediately, but a lot of people were angry,
feeling that Darrow had no right to sell the game because he hadn’t
actually invented it. Indeed, one family claimed that he had only learnt
the game because they had shown it to him while he was a guest at
their house.
Contrary to popular belief, the original game was not based on the
streets of New York, but Atlantic City, a comparatively small holiday
destination on the American east coast. Today, the game is licensed
in over a hundred countries, and the streets and locations on the
board are changed to reflect the country the game is being sold in.

Outcomes Intermediate EOI Test 2 – Key 5

Text 3

Narrator You will hear part of an interview. Read through the notes below and
complete them by filling in gaps 18–25 according to what you hear.
Gap 0 has been completed as an example. Now read the notes.

Narrator Listen to an interview with a TV presenter who is talking about her new
documentary.

Presenter On today’s show, I’m talking to Amy Lawrence, who you will all know
from Around the World, the popular radio travel programme that takes
listeners to parts of the world which few holidaymakers ever get to.
Welcome to the show, Amy.
Amy Hi.
Presenter So, Amy, you’re here to talk about a special two-part television
documentary you’ve made, The Future of the Galapagos Islands,
which is to be shown on Channel 5 at the weekend. Can you tell us a
little bit about it?
Amy Sure. Fifty years ago, few tourists travelled to remote parts of the
world. Today, however, this is no longer the case. In our programme,
we look at how tourism has had a negative effect on countries which
were once unspoilt.
Presenter Can you give us an example of how tourism has affected the
environment of a place you’ve visited?
Amy Well, perhaps the most shocking example we investigated for our
programme was the situation on the Galapagos Islands. These
islands are off the coast of Ecuador in South America, and they are
well-known for their remarkable range of unique and fascinating
wildlife. They are also famous because the naturalist Charles Darwin
visited them in the nineteenth century.
Presenter That was where he got the idea for the theory of evolution, wasn’t it?
Amy Yes. That’s right. When I first visited the islands in the 1990s, it had
already become a fairly developed tourist destination, but there was a
good balance between nature and the need to provide infrastructure
for islanders and visitors. Back then I wouldn’t have believed you if
you’d told me how much more development there was to come. The
number of hotels has doubled since my first visit. And there are now
two airports on the islands, so there is a lot of noise and pollution, too.
Presenter And I guess this is a threat to the unique wildlife?
Amy Absolutely. Animals are disappearing before our eyes. The pollution is
killing them, and so is the fact there are so many cars. Animals are
often run over, and birds are hit by the planes as they take off. The
worst problem is the introduction of non-native species. Cats and rats

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 are now on the islands, and they are hunting birds and reptiles there,
and eating their eggs.
Presenter Why has the government allowed so much development?
Amy As always, it’s down to money. To be fair, the government does its
best to regulate building. But if you take away tourism, the economy
will collapse. As a result, developers and tourist companies have a lot
of power and it’s difficult to stop them building whatever they want to
build.
Presenter But I thought tourism to these areas was controlled. You know, eco-
tourism. I thought that was a good idea.
Amy Well, it’s certainly good that tourists these days are more concerned
with protecting the environment, and eco-tourism often supports local
communities. The problem is that western tourists want western
facilities. They eat food that has to be imported into the area, they
have showers, they use the toilet, and they always leave some waste.
In delicate eco-systems, the drain on the water supply and the effects
of any waste can be disastrous.
Presenter I see. So, in your opinion, if we want to protect places like the
Galapagos Islands, what should we do? What’s the solution?
Amy The solution? Right, where shall I start?

Outcomes Intermediate EOI Test 2 – Key 7