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Placement Test My name’s Tom and I want to tell you a story. Something really strange happened to me. It was on th

June the 10  last year, at about 11 o’clock in the morning. I was sitting in a small café in the centre of London. I was waiting for my friend Katie. She was a bit late. I was reading a book. The book was really exciting and I didn’t see a girl enter the café. She came over to my table. She was tall with long dark hair. She was wearing sunglasses. ‘Excuse me’, she said. ‘Are you Tom?’ ‘Yes, I am,’ I replied. ‘Oh, good,’ said the girl. ‘I’m Maria. I’m a friend of Katie’s. She says she’s sorry but she can’t meet you this morning’. ‘Oh, alright,’ I said. ‘Thanks for telling me’. The girl left the café. I was very surprised because Katie usually phones me. Why didn’t she phone me to tell me? So I finished my coffee, paid the bill and left the café. About 10 minutes later I was walking through the park when my mobile phone rang. I took it out of my bag and answered. It was Katie. ‘Where are you?’ she said. ‘I’m waiting for you in the café. Don’t you remember? We agreed to meet here today at 11 o’clock’. I ran back to the café. Katie was there. She was eating an ice cream. I told her about the girl and the message. ‘That’s very strange,’ said Katie. ‘I don’t know any tall girls with long dark hair. And I don’t know anyone called Maria’. So who was the mysterious girl?

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Pulse 3 Tests and Exams Audioscript Progress Test Unit 1 Presenter

Hello and welcome to Technology Today. In tonight’s programme we are going to talk to three young people to find out what are the ‘must have’ gadgets and technological items for the young people of today. Our guests tonight are Jack, Lily and Rob. Hi.

Jack, Lily and Rob 

Hello.

Presenter

So, Jack. Let’s start with you. First of all, how old are you?

Jack

I’m 16.

Presenter

What is the most important technological item in your opinion, Jack?

Jack

It’s definitely my tablet computer.

Presenter

Really? Why?

Jack

Because I can basically do everything with it, I can surf the internet, send emails, download video clips. Everything I need to do. But the most important thing is I can take it with me everywhere I go. It’s cool!

Presenter

Do you use it for educational purposes? I mean for school?

Jack

Sure. I research things on the internet and it’s really useful for homework, too.

Presenter

Lily, how about you? How old are you?

Lily

I’m 15.

Presenter

And what’s your number one gadget?

Lily

Well I’ve got a new phone which is great, but I think the best gadget is my MP3 player. I love music and I can use my MP3 player to download new songs. I can listen to them anywhere – at home, on the bus, in the park, even at school, in the breaks, of course! My phone’s really useful too, though.

Presenter

OK, and how old are you, Rob?

Rob

I’m 15, too.

Presenter

And what gadget is absolutely essential for you?

Rob

That’s a difficult question. I think a lot of different gadgets are important for me, my mobile phone, for example, and my computer. I’ve got an MP3 player, too, and it’s really cool. But I think perhaps the most important one is my digital camera. I’m really interested in photography and I’ve got a really nice camera. I take pictures all the time and the camera's software lets me edit the photos, upload them to the internet and share them with my friends. I really enjoy doing that.

Presenter

Thank you, Rob. OK, that’s all we have time for …

Progress Test, Unit 2 Presenter

Hello. Tonight I am talking to some young people about their travels. I want to find out the best places to visit and the best time to visit them? Here in the studio I have, Ben, Louise and Jenny. Let’s start with you, Jenny. What countries have you visited?

Jenny

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Pulse 3 Tests and Exams Audioscript Presenter

Which of those countries did you like best?

Jenny

I liked Argentina best. I went there two years ago. You can find everything there –  mountains, history and great cities. The food is great too, especially if you like steak! You should go in December or January because that’s the middle of summer there.

Presenter

How about you, Ben? Have you been to many different countries?

Ben

Yes, I have. In fact, I’ve been to fifteen different countries. Most of them are in Europe, but I’ve also been to Australia and South Africa.

Presenter

Wow! Which country did you like best, and why?

Ben

I liked Australia a lot. I went there five years ago. I think Sydney is a great city. But my favourite country is South Africa. I went last year and we spent a month there. Cape Town is a beautiful place and I also liked the beaches on the Indian Ocean. The best thing was going on safari and seeing lions, elephants and giraffes in a natural environment. The best time to go is probably January or February, although it is very hot in the north of the country then.

Presenter

OK, so that’s Argentina and South Africa. How about you, Louise. Have you been anywhere interesting?

Louise

Yes, I have. I’ve been to loads of countries. In fact, I’ve been to more than 20 countries so I’ve been to more than Ben.

Presenter

More than 20? And which one was your favourite?

Louise

That’s a really difficult question. I liked Spain and Italy, of course, and Turkey was amazing. I prefer colder countries though so my favourite country is Russia. I went there in winter three years ago and it was beautiful. There was snow everywhere. I visited Moscow and St Petersburg and I loved them both. For me the best time to go is winter – any time from November to April.

Presenter

OK, so that’s …

Progress Test, Unit 3 Presenter

Hello and welcome to Art World . In today’s programme we are talking about the best five galleries to visit in London. Our guest today is Amanda Green. Welcome, Amanda.

Amanda

Hello.

Presenter

So, Amanda, tell us which galleries you think are the most interesting to visit in London.

Amanda

Well, there are lots of great galleries and many of them are in the centre of London, but these are my favourites. First is the Tate Modern on the South Bank. It’s not just interesting inside, the building itself has a fascinating history.

Presenter

Really? Why?

Amanda

Well it used to be an old power station, but it closed down in 1981. Since 2001 there has been an art gallery there. I think the best thing is the entrance hall which is huge and always has some kind of installation in it – some of these are really big. There are loads of other things to see too and it’s free.

Presenter

OK. What’s your second choice?

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Pulse 3 Tests and Exams Audioscript Amanda

My second choice is the V&A. This is part of the British Museum and it’s a huge museum of art and design. The world’s largest in fact. They’ve got everything here, from old Chinese pottery to modern sculptures. There are photos, paintings and drawings, clothes and even films. You can spend all day there and still not see everything!

Presenter

And how much does it cost to get in?

Amanda

Nothing, but you can give a donation. Some people give about £5.

Presenter

OK. … What about your third choice?

Amanda

That’s the Margaret Street photographic gallery. It’s a little gallery with both photographs and moving images. The photographers are from all over Europe and their photos range from landscapes to tribal fashions. Again entry is free and the gallery stays open late on Thursdays.

Presenter

… and your fourth choice?

Amanda

The next one is the National Gallery, right in the centre of London. There are over 2000 paintings from western European painters. There are landscapes, still life and portraits. There are also some great holiday activities for children throughout the summer.

Presenter

OK, but these places are all indoors. Is there anywhere outdoors you suggest?

Amanda

Well, my final choice isn’t a gallery but a tour of street art in East London. A guide takes you around the streets to show you some of the incredible graffiti in the city. The tours happen in both sunny and rainy weather so take your umbrella!

Presenter

Well, thank you Amanda …

Progress Test Unit 4 Presenter

Hello and welcome to Life Tomorrow . In today’s programme we’re going to discuss what life will be like for the future generation and we have three young people in the studio to give us their views. Mel, Aaron and Kirsty. Mel, let’s start with you. What do you think your future will be like?

Mel

Well, I think life for people like us will be great. Much better than it was for our parents and definitely our grandparents. We’re going to live longer for a start. Also, there are so many opportunities now. For example, most of us will probably go to university and get a degree so we’ll be able to get better jobs with good money. And then, when we get married we’ll be able to leave home and buy our own place.

Presenter

What about you, Aaron? Do you agree with Mel?

Aaron

Not really. I think life will be much worse for us. Yes, maybe we will stay at school till we’re 18 and then go to university till we’re 21 or 22, but we’ll have no money because education is so expensive. I mean, in England it costs over £9000 a year to go to university – that’s a lot of money! I don’t think we’ll definitely get good jobs and I don’t think we’ll be able to buy a house. We will live longer though.

Presenter

OK, so one person who thinks the future will be good and one who doesn’t. How about you, Kirsty? What do you think the future will be like?

Kirsty

Well, I agree with Mel that there are more job opportunities now, but we probably won’t

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Pulse 3 Tests and Exams Audioscript have much money. We’ll also have to work for much longer too. I mean we won’t be able to retire till we’re 67 – my gran retired at 60. But we can travel more and I want to see the world so I’m going to leave school and go to India and maybe I’ll go to Thailand after that.. Presenter

India – wow. Well the three of you have quite different opinions about what your lives are going to be like. Unfortunately I can’t see the future but …

Progress Test Unit 5 My name is Charlie Johnson and I’m 27 years old. I come from Edinburgh in Scotland and I work as a telephone engineer. Last year, I came home from work and I sat down to watch the TV news. There was a report about poor children in Africa with a terrible disease. The disease makes them blind but for only a few pounds it’s possible to cure the disease so they can see again. I decided to do something. I called five friends of mine and we decided to organise some charity events because we wanted to do something to help these children. First of all we organised a sponsored run. This was in October last year. We’re still young and we can all run a bit so we decided to run 10 kilometres and we asked our friends to sponsor us and give us one pound for every kilometre we ran. All six of us finished the run and we raised almost £1000 for the Medicine for Africa charity. It was a great start. Then I was tidying my bedroom at home and I found a lot of clothes I never wear so I organised a  jumble sale at the end of November. More than a hundred people came to the jumble sale and we raised another £500 for the charity. Then in December I made a charity CD with my five friends. We can all sing and one of my friends can play the guitar well so we recorded some Christmas songs. We sold the CD on the internet and raised another £600 for the charity. It’s summer now and I’m still raising money for the charity. I’m planning a bungee jump next Saturday and if the weather’s good we’ll wash cars outside the local supermarket next Sunday. I want to raise another £1000 for the charity so there’s still a bit to do. If I can raise the money by September, I might go to Africa to see if I can help there. In the meantime it’s back to fundraising here in Scotland.

Progress Test Unit 6 Presenter

Hello, on today’s programme we’re going to be looking at what to do when you reach 16  – stay on at school and continue to study or leave and do vocational training. It ’s a question many teenagers are asking as they reach the end of Year 11 and are taking their GCSEs. With me to talk about it are Jan Daniels, a career advisor and students Harry Stanton and Clare Duckworth. So, let’s start with you, Harry. You’re 16 now, what are you planning to do next year?

Harry

Well, I don’t want to stay at school. I’ve never enjoyed it and I’m not very good at exams. I’d much rather do something practical. I’d really like to be a mechanic and work in a garage fixing cars.

Presenter

OK, and Clare are you planning to leave too?

Clare

No, I like school – well most of the time. I’ve applied to my local college to study A levels and then I want to go to university. I know it’ll be expensive, but I really don’t know what I

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Pulse 3 Tests and Exams Audioscript want to do in the future and I think I’ll have more options with a degree. Presenter

Right. Jan, as a careers advisor what would you say to Harry and Clare?

Jan

Well either option is fine as long as you get some qualifications, either academic ones or vocational ones. As Clare doesn’t know what she wants to do yet getting some more academic qualifications is a sensible idea. Once she’s got A levels then she can think again. If her grades are good, then she can go to university and get a degree, or she can leave school at 18 and join a company training course.

Presenter

And Harry?

Jan

Harry knows what he wants to do and I suggest he finds a vocational training course or an apprenticeship so he can work and get a qualification at the same time. There are lots of courses available.

Harry

Can I work or do I have to go to college?

Jan

If you do an apprenticeship you work in a garage and go to college once or sometimes twice a week. So you get lots of practical experience. And you get paid as an apprentice too. It’s not much – about £200 a week. You can find out about a lot of these courses online.

Presenter

Well, that’s all we’ve got time for this week, next week …

Progress Test Unit 7 Welcome to Strange but True . Today’s first incredible story is about the theft of some priceless masterpieces from a French museum. In May 2010 a thief broke into the Paris Museum of Modern Art and stole paintings by famous artists such as Picasso and Matisse. Unfortunately the museum didn’t have a burglar alarm at the time and the thief just broke a window and climbed in! What is even more amazing is that security guards were in the museum at the time but they didn’t hear anything. They didn’t even notice the broken window or the missing paintings! The theft wasn’t discovered until 7 o’clock in the morning when the day staff arrived. At first the stolen paintings were believed to be worth about £430 million but later this amount was reduced to just under £100 million. Police believe that they were stolen specially for a private collector. Today, many years later, the police still don’t know who broke into the museum, but they are sure the man, or woman, responsible no longer has the paintings. Now our second extraordinary story is about identity theft. You know, when someone steals your name, address and other bank details so they can pretend to be you. Often hackers steal your details and passwords by hacking into your computer and then weeks later they take money from your bank account or use your credit card to buy things online. Unfortunately you often only discover this theft months later and the police can’t do anything about it. This story though is about a very unusual case of identity theft. Li Ming was a Chinese student in America. He had no money and was so worried about the huge amount of money he owed the banks that he decided to pretend he was dead. An article about his death was published in the local paper and Li Ming disappeared. Nine months later Li Ming tried to get a new driving licence but the authorities noticed that he was already dead so they called the police. Li Ming was arrested for stealing the identity of Li Ming!

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Pulse 3 Tests and Exams Audioscript Progress Test Unit 8 Presenter

If you walk round any big town in Britain you’ll see people sleeping rough on the streets. Sometimes we give them money, but most of us just walk past and don’t think about them. But what must it be like to be that homeless person? We’ve got a young man here today who’s been homeless, but has turned his life around. This is Russell’s story.

Russell

My dad died when I was young and me, my mum and three sisters were left to look after ourselves. The problem was we had no money. Mum didn’t work because my youngest sister was a baby so when dad died we had no wages coming in. My grandparents helped a bit, but soon we had to leave our house and move into a small flat. I got into trouble with some kids on the estate, got into fights and was stopped by the police a few times. Eventually I ran away. I got a lift to Sheffield in a lorry and then just stayed there. I didn’t know anyone and I didn’t have a job or any money so I used to sleep in doorways in shopping centres and steal food because I was hungry.

Presenter

How long were you homeless for?

Russell

About 9 months I think. It wasn’t so bad in the summer when it was warm, but the winter was awful. It’s freezing trying to sleep outside when it’s snowing. I used to find cardboard boxes and sleep under them.

Presenter

So what happened?

Russell

Well, I used to go to a soup kitchen – you know a place where they give out free food and drink to the homeless. I was really ill at the time and there was a guy there from the Homing Project, Martin …

Presenter

Is this a charity which helps homeless people?

Russell

That’s right. Anyway, he found me somewhere to stay for a few nights and then helped me get back to my family in Leeds.

Presenter

Was your mum happy to see you?

Russell

Of course. She and my sisters were living in a better flat and there was room for me too. Now I’m training to be a builder but once a week I help out with a local homeless charity.

Presenter

So you’ve got your life and family back?

Russell

Yes, but it was all because of the Homing Project.

Progress Test Unit 9 Presenter

Imagine going to live in another country where you don’t speak a word of the language? Today we’re going to be talking to two people who did just that. Harriet moved to Mexico with her parents and twin brother when she was 14 and George went to China when his father was sent there by his company. Now three years later, they’re both back in Britain. Hello to you both.

Harriet

Hello

George 

Hello.

Presenter

Harriet, why did you go to Mexico?

Harriet

Well, my parents are both English teachers and were offered jobs teaching in a private

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Pulse 3 Tests and Exams Audioscript school in Mexico City. So they decided that it would be a great experience for us to live in another country. Presenter

And was it a great experience?

Harriet

Yes, although it took a bit of time to get used to it. My parents both spoke Spanish, but Oliver and I had only done a bit of Spanish at school, so it was quite difficult for us to understand what people were saying.

Presenter

Did you go to an international school?

Harriet

No. We were put into a local school where hardly anyone spoke English. We had to learn Spanish quickly. We were taken out of class for an hour twice a week for Spanish lessons, but we mostly learnt from the other kids. They were all really friendly and wanted to help us with our Spanish and we helped them with their English.

Presenter

So how good’s your Spanish now?

Harriet

I’m almost fluent, in fact I probably speak Spanish better than my parents.

Presenter

And George, how was your experience in China?

George

It was great, but very difficult at first. Nobody in my family spoke Chinese, so we all had to go to Chinese classes. Then we had to learn to read and write it too.

Presenter

Of course, the writing system’s completely different, isn’t it?

George

Yes, and sometimes if we couldn’t understand what someone said, they’d write it down because they thought we’d be able to read it OK. It’s because in China there are several spoken languages but they all understand the written one.

Presenter

And now, what’s your Chinese like?

George

Better than my parents, I can talk to people OK and read some stuff, but my writing’s still not great.

Presenter

Are you going to continue learning Chinese, now you’re back here?

George 

Definitely!

End-of-term Test Units 1–3 Peter

Hi, Jane, it’s Peter.

Jane

Hello, Peter. Welcome home! How was your trip to Berlin?

Peter

It was awful!

Jane

Oh no! What happened?

Peter

Well, first my flight was really early so I got up at 4 o’clock in the morning to get a taxi to the airport. That wasn’t so bad but we were almost at the airport when I noticed I didn’t have my passport.

Jane

No! What did you do?

Peter

We drove back to my house of course but then we were late and I missed the flight. It was terrible. I had to buy another ticket and that cost £250!

Jane:

Did you have to wait long for the next flight?

Peter

About five hours. It was really boring. I hate waiting at airports but I finally got to Berlin at two o’clock in the afternoon. I waited for my suitcase for about half an hour but it didn’t

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Pulse 3 Tests and Exams Audioscript come. They lost my suitcase! Jane

So you didn’t have any clothes?

Peter

No, just a few things in my rucksack. Luckily I had my money and my toothbrush in my hand baggage! Anyway, I took a taxi to the hotel and checked in. Then I went for a walk around the city. It’s a nice place and there were lots of interesting places to visit. I walked for a couple of hours and then I decided to go back to the hotel. The problem was that I couldn’t remember where it was and my money was in my hotel room so I couldn’t take a taxi. I walked and walked but I couldn’t find it. It was freezing and I was tired. In the end I went into a small café and asked them the way but they couldn’t speak English and I don’t speak German.

Jane

Oh no! What did you do?

Peter

Finally I found someone who spoke English but he didn’t know where the hotel was. Then he asked some other people and they knew the address. It was a long way but after about an hour I found my hotel. I was exhausted.

Jane

It sounds terrible. I hope the rest of your weekend was better.

Peter

Saturday was OK. I went to a museum and an art gallery and met some friends in the evening.

Jane

How was your journey home?

Peter

Awful! The plane was four hours late and I didn’t get home until midnight. And I still haven’t got my suitcase!

End-of-term Test Units 4–6 Evie

Hello?

Alex

Hi, Evie. It’s Alex. Welcome home!

Evie

Hi, Alex. How are things?

Alex

Good. How was your trip?

Evie

Amazing! I had a great time.

Alex

When did you get home?

Evie

Yesterday. About 6 o’clock in the evening. Peru was great but it’s good to be home again, especially after three months away.

Alex

Where were you in Peru? Lima?

Evie

No, I was in a small village near Cusco.

Alex

And what were you doing there?

Evie

Well, I was teaching English in a school every morning and teaching the street children most afternoons.

Alex

How old were the children?

Evie

Well, the youngest were four and the oldest were teenagers. They all wanted to learn English and came to classes all the time.

Alex

Why are they so keen on learning English?

Evie

Because lots of them want to be tour guides – remember Cusco is an important tourist

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Pulse 3 Tests and Exams Audioscript centre. People from all over the world start there before going into the jungle or to Machu Picchu. Alex

What about the weekends? What did you do then?

Evie

Well, usually I went to see other parts of Peru with some of the other volunteers. We went hiking and rock climbing and visited old Inca towns and I took loads of photos. You know I like photography!

Alex

Where did you stay? In a hotel?

Evie

No, I stayed with a family. They were really nice people. We spoke Spanish all the time. That was really good for my Spanish.

Alex

Did you go to other countries in South America?

Evie

No, because there was so much to see in Peru. I went to Arequipa and Lake Titicaca which was fantastic and I went to see the Nasca lines in the south. I also went to Lima. It’s a big city and very noisy and I didn’t like it much and I was glad to get back to Cusco.

Alex

Are you going to visit Peru again?

Evie

Yes, I’d love to go again. Maybe next time I’ll go in winter for a holiday. I’d like to see the Andes in the snow.

Alex

Right. Let’s meet up for coffee so you can tell me more about your trip.

Evie

OK. How about tomorrow? 10 o’clock?

Alex

Great. 10 o’clock’s fine for me.

Evie

Bye. See you tomorrow.

Alex

Bye.

End-of-term Test Units 7–9 Police

Hello, can I help you?

Alfie

Yes, I’d like to report a crime.

Police

OK, let’s start with your name, please.

Alfie

It’s Alfie. Alfie McNicholas.

Police

Alfie Nichols.

Alfie

No, McNicholas.

Police

Sorry, sir. Is that M-A-C Nicholas?

Alfie

No, M –C.

Police

And your address, sir?

Alfie

23, Pivot Drive, Swinton.

Police

Thank you. So what crime would you like to report?

Alfie

A kidnapping. My neighbour was put into a car by two men and they drove away. You must hurry up and find him.

Police

Are you sure they were kidnapping him? Was he shouting for help or trying to escape?

Alfie

I couldn’t hear, but I don’t think he was very happy. I couldn’t really see his face.

Police

And what’s your neighbour’s name and address?

Alfie

John Baker and he lives at 38 Pivot Drive.

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Pulse 3 Tests and Exams Audioscript Police

Thank you. So, there were two men who ...

Alfie

Well, two men and a driver, she stayed in the car.

Police

OK and they put Mr Baker in the car and drove off. Which way did they go?

Alfie

Towards town. They turned left, no right at the traffic lights on Broad Street.

Police

And what time was this, sir?

Alfie

About eight o’clock this evening.

Police

Is there any reason why your neighbour would be kidnapped? Is he very rich or does he have rich parents?

Alfie

Well, his dad used to own a successful company and they all had expensive cars. But that was years ago. He sold the business and they’ve got cheap cars now. Actually the car that the kidnappers had was more expensive than John’s car.

Police

So, your neighbour who isn’t very rich was kidnapped by men who have a better car than he does?

Alfie

Yes, that’s right.

Police

What were the kidnappers wearing?

Alfie

Black and white striped T-shirts and dark trousers, black I think.

Police

Could you see their faces?

Alfie

No, they were wearing masks, like the ones everyone’s wearing at the carnival at the moment.

Police

And your neighbour. What was he wearing?

Alfie

Actually, it’s a bit strange, but he was wearing the same clothes.

Police

You said earlier that you couldn’t see his face. Was he also wearing a mask?

Alfie

Oh, yes he might have been. Do you think they’re going to keep him prisoner?

Police

No, sir. I don’t think your neighbour was kidnapped, I think he was going to the carnival with his friends.

Alfie

Oh!

End-of-year Test Units 1-9 My name’s Alice and this is my crime story. It was late one morning last December. I think it was just before twelve. I was sitting in the lobby of a hotel in London, waiting for my sister. She was late so I started reading a magazine. Suddenly, I noticed a man. He was sitting opposite me on the other side of the lobby. He was wearing a black coat, a black hat and dark glasses. He was looking at all the people in the lobby and I thought he was waiting for someone like I was. Then some American tourists came into the lobby and walked towards the reception desk. They put their suitcases down on the floor and one of them put his camera on top of one of the suitcases. They were talking to the receptionist and filling in some forms. Meanwhile, the man in the dark glasses was looking at their suitcases. Suddenly, he stood up, walked towards the reception desk and picked up the camera. Then he ran out of the lobby and into the street. I was so surprised that I couldn’t do anything for a moment. Then I told the people at the reception desk that the man had their camera. The receptionist called the police and I ran out of the hotel and looked for the man. The street was crowded and I

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Pulse 3 Tests and Exams Audioscript couldn’t see him anywhere, but I knew he couldn’t have gone far. Then suddenly I saw him. He was sitting in a café on the other side of the street. I went back to the hotel and told the receptionist. While I was talking to the receptionist, the police arrived and I told them that the man was sitting in the café on the other side of the street. The police hurried across the street to arrest the man. He saw them coming and tried to escape, but fell over a bag and the police arrested him. It was really exciting! Then my sister arrived. I told her the story, but she didn’t believe me until we saw the story on the news that evening. The news presenter even mentioned my name and showed a picture of me. Now my sister’s jealous because I’ve been on TV and she hasn’t!

Key Competences Diagnostic Test, exercise 1 Presenter

Here we are at the Riverside Youth Centre. I’m here to talk to some of the teenagers about why they come to the youth centre. There are some boys sitting outside on the steps and chatting. I’m going to talk to them … Hello, I’m from Radio Six. Can I ask you a couple of questions?

Leo

Yes, of course. My name’s Leo.

Presenter

Why do you come to the youth centre, Leo?

Leo

I get bored watching TV at home and I like meeting my friends here. There’s always a lot to do. There are computers and computer games, a TV and table tennis.

Presenter

When did you join the youth centre?

Leo

I started coming here last year and it has changed my life. I was bullied when I started school and I haven’t really made any friends since then. But I’ve made lots of friends here. Everyone is really friendly and we all like doing the same things.

Presenter

And who’s this?

Leo

This is Sam. He’s the same age as me and we both like playing table tennis.

Presenter

Hello, Sam. What do you like about the youth group?

Sam

The same as Leo, I think. I don’t like school. I like my school work but I don’t like the other students in my class, so I don’t have any friends. But I don’t mind that now, because I’ve made lots of good friends here. It was Lily’s birthday last week and she had a party and we all went. It was great.

Leo

Yes, a group of eight of us from the youth centre went to her party. I don’t mind that I don’t have friends at school because now I’ve got good friends here.

Presenter

Why have you made friends here and not at school, do you think?

Leo

There isn’t any competition here. Everyone is friendly and we all want to have fun. No one is trying to be better than anyone else.

Presenter

Great! Well thanks for talking to me today …

Key Competences Diagnostic Test, exercise 2 Presenter

Today on teenage hour, we’re going to talk about long-distance friendships. What would you do if your best friend moved to a new country! That would be a problem for most teenagers but not Becky and Viv. Becky is in the studio with us, and Viv is talking to us

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Pulse 3 Tests and Exams Audioscript from her new home in Boston, USA. Hello Becky and Viv. Becky and Viv

Hello!

Presenter

Viv, how did you feel when you knew that you were moving to America?

Viv

I was miserable. I didn’t want to leave my school and all my friends, but most of all I didn’t want to leave Becky. We’ve been friends since we were five years old. But my dad had a new job so we had to go.

Presenter

What has it been like since you’ve been in America?

Viv

It’s fine and I’ve made lots of friends, so I’m OK. But Becky is still my best friend, so we chat online nearly every day. There is a time difference of five hours but that’s OK.

Becky

Yes, we use Facebook, emails and we talk online all the time. Sometimes we chat using the computer so we can see each other while we’re speaking. It’s great because I can still ask Viv for advice if I need it and she knows I’m always here if she wants to talk about a problem. The bad thing is that we can’t spend time together.

Viv

Yes, if I still lived in England, Becky and I would go shopping together or we’d go to the cinema. I’m sad that we can’t do things together.

Becky

Yes, but in the past, if you moved to a different country, you had to write letters! We never write letters. In the past there weren’t computers, Facebook, or email! That would be really terrible.

Presenter

Yes, today it’s much easier to stay friends if you’re in different countries than in the past. Thanks for talking to us today …

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