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Talent Level 3 IGCSE Keys and Scripts

IGCSE Training Test provides sample reading, writing, and listening exercises along with keys and scripts for practice tests, including comprehension questions about passages on topics like penguins and moving to a new school, as well as sample dialogs for listening comprehension exercises involving booking a tennis court or flight.

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Talent Level 3 IGCSE Keys and Scripts

IGCSE Training Test provides sample reading, writing, and listening exercises along with keys and scripts for practice tests, including comprehension questions about passages on topics like penguins and moving to a new school, as well as sample dialogs for listening comprehension exercises involving booking a tennis court or flight.

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LUISA CASTRO CUNEO
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IGCSE Training Test

KEYS AND SCRIPTS

IGCSE Training Test Man Fine. You have to pay before you use the
tennis court, so go straight to the reception
desk between the swimming pool entrance
Reading and Writing and the gym.
Girl OK.
Reading and Writing – Exercise 1 Man Can you just give me your surname?
Suggested answers: 1 over/about 120 hectares 2 It is a Girl Morgan, that’s …
scientific resource with collections of living plants, plant 2
samples, a seed bank and a library. 3 Exotic plants from Woman Excuse me. Could you tell me where I can find
different parts of the world were brought back by a bank near here?
explorers and planted in the royal gardens. 4 It’s the Boy There’s one over there.
most famous building at Kew and it is a laboratory for
Woman I know, I’ve already been there but the cash
studying rainforest plants. 5 Seeing wildlife in the trees
machine isn’t working. I was wondering if
and getting a good view of London. 6 It comes from
there’s another one nearby?
research done into the health of bees and their problems
Boy I don’t really know but I’d try the High Street, if
caused by the modern world. 7 by public transport
I were you.
Woman Could you give me directions? I’m afraid I
don’t know this town.
Reading and Writing – Exercise 2
Boy The quickest way is to walk straight through
8 (a) C (b) A (c) B (d) C (e) A (f) C (g) B (h) A this park, then cross over the road and carry
Reading and Writing – Exercise 3 on for about a hundred metres and you’ll be in
the High Street.
Suggested answers:
Woman Thank you so much.
9 He thought about all the soap that was wasted in 3
hotels.
Girl Shall we go ahead and book then?
10 He found a way to recycle hotel soap. The volunteer Boy Yes, we’re sure about the dates and the price
group helped him. He raised money for his project. is good, so why not?
11 it helps improves health; it protects the environment; Girl OK. So, we said the one that leaves at three in
it gives useful work to local people the afternoon … right, that’s done.
Boy What does that say?
Listening Girl It says we can choose our seats, if we want.
Boy I definitely want a window seat. I love looking
Listening – Exercise 1 down at the ground below.
1a a sports/leisure centre 1b Thursday at 6/six pm Girl As long as it isn’t cloudy! I’ll get the seat next
2a (the) High Street 2b cross the road; walk 100 metres to you. I’d rather not look out of the window
3a booking a flight/buying plane tickets 3b a bit during take-off and landing!
nervous/anxious/not very relaxed 4a visit (the museum) Boy You aren’t scared, are you?
by themselves 4b 4:30/four-thirty Girl Not really. Let’s just say, I’m happier when we
arrive back on the ground!
SCRIPT [2.14]   4
1 Teacher I’d just like to say a word or two about our visit
Girl Hello, I’d like to book a tennis court for next to the museum. After the guided visit round
week, please. the robot exhibition, you’re free to go off and
Man Could you tell me which day you’d prefer? explore on your own. Make sure you use your
Girl Tuesday or Thursday. time well and allow yourselves plenty of time to
Man Let me see, on Tuesday there’s a court free at look around the museum shop because the
three for an hour. That’s the only time we’ve coach driver won’t wait for you. He wants to set
got available that day. off by four-thirty and no later because the traffic
Girl That’s a bit early. What about Thursday? gets bad after that. So, I want us all to meet
Man There’s a bit more choice then. There are outside the museum at four-fifteen at the very
courts free at six and at seven. latest. I won’t accept any excuses if you aren’t
here on time.
Girl Great. I’ll book the earlier one.

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IGCSE Training Test
KEYS AND SCRIPTS
Listening – Exercise 2 Listening – Exercise 3
5 advertising – swim fast – perfect shape – build nests 6  1 D 2 G 3 A 4 E 5 B 6 F – Answer C is not necessary.
– both parents – freezing – protected – sea ice
SCRIPT [2.16]  
SCRIPT [2.15]   Speaker 1  I didn’t really want to leave my old school,
Who doesn’t like penguins? We love the funny way they but I had to because we moved house. We bought a
walk and enjoy watching them diving and swimming house on the other side of the city and my journey to
under water. Their black backs and white fronts make school would have been difficult. As there was a good
them look as though they’re wearing smart suits and baby school within walking distance, my parents decided it
penguins look like soft toys. All these features give us the would be best for me to go there. I’d only been at my
idea that they’re easy-going and friendly – and they make other school for a year but it had taken me quite a long
us laugh, as well! It’s probably no accident that there are a time to get used to it, so I wasn’t looking forward to going
lot of penguins in cartoons and children’s stories, as well through all that again. But, it’s all worked out fine and I’m
as in advertising. getting on well at my new school now.
Penguins are birds, but they are very unusual birds. They Speaker 2  I’ll never forget my first day at the language
have wings but they can’t fly in the air. Instead, their wings school I went to in France last summer. My French wasn’t
help them swim fast in water. All other birds have light very good at all and I couldn’t understand a word! I got
bones which enable them to fly. Penguins have heavy lost going to the school on the first morning so I arrived
bones which make them excellent swimmers. Although late. I’d missed the introduction and I had to do a test
their big bodies and very short legs make walking on land immediately. I was so anxious and upset, I didn’t do it
difficult, they are the perfect shape for moving fast through very well. They put me in the beginners’ group and I’d
water. Unlike other birds, penguins don’t build nests in been learning French for three years! Anyway, after the
trees. Some kinds of penguin make a rough collection of first lesson, I changed class, met some friendly students
sticks on the ground as a nest for their eggs. Emperor and I started to enjoy myself!
penguins, which live in Antarctica, don’t build nests at all. Speaker 3  Starting a new school was just one of the new
The female lays the egg but takes turns with the male to adjustments I had to make to my life when my family
keep it warm. The parent who is looking after the egg has moved overseas. Looking back, I think school was one of
nothing to eat for days at a time, until the other penguin the easier things because I went to an international
returns and it can go and catch some fish. When the young school. Nearly all the students were in the same position
penguin appears, both parents look after it, which is quite as me, so they understood my problems and helped me
unusual in the animal world. Penguins are only found in get over them. Luckily, the lessons were in English and I
the southern hemisphere, but not just in the freezing studied the same subjects that I’d been doing before.
temperatures of Antarctica. They live as far north as the Outside school though, I had to learn to speak a new
Galapagos Islands and also in Argentina, Chile, South language and adapt to a different way of life.
Africa, Australia and New Zealand. So, it isn’t true that they Speaker 4  I couldn’t wait to go to secondary school! I was
need snow and ice to survive. There are eighteen different fed up with primary school and I wanted to go to the same
types of penguins which range in size from the Emperor school as my big brother. He seemed to do such
penguin – which can be over one metre tall and weigh up interesting things at his school. He played lots of sport, so I
to 40 kilos – to the Little Blue penguin which reaches a was envious. He went to some really good after-school
maximum height of 40 centimetres and weighs less than clubs and he took part in a school exchange to Spain. Well,
two kilos. All penguins live on a diet of fish and sea I’m at the same school as him now and it’s great! I’m doing
creatures. Unfortunately, the loveable penguin, like many well in most subjects and I play in the school hockey
other wild animals, is under threat from climate change team.I’ve also started some new activities like learning the
and human activity. Thirteen types of penguin risk guitar and photography at after-school clubs.
disappearing altogether. Emperor penguins, which live in Speaker 5  Last year I changed schools because I didn’t
Antarctica, have the fewest problems because their like my old school. I wasn’t happy there, so I was really
environment has been protected for a number of years. pleased when my mum and dad decided it would be best
It’s the penguins living in other places that are suffering for me to go to a different school. At the old school, there
the most. Their natural environments are being taken over was lots of science and maths, and although that’s why
by people and they often have to swim and search for I’d chosen the school, it was much more difficult than
food in polluted water. Too much fishing in some areas I’d imagined. My new school is a specialist school for
means that they have difficulty finding enough food languages and I’m really enjoying it. I’m studying
and sea temperatures are rising, with the result that French, Spanish and German. I prefer the atmosphere
there is less sea ice. Penguins need our help and I’m at this school. I enjoy going to school and I know I’m
now going to talk about … going to do well.

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