This listening exercise is about a tour guide talking about a coach trip to a group of tourists. This a multiple-choice listening exercise for Part 4 of the B1 Preliminary Listening Test. This gives you practice before you take the Cambridge English B1 Preliminary exam.
B1 Preliminary Listening Test Part 4 – A Coach Trip
You will hear a tour guide talking to a group of tourists about a coach trip.
Tour guide: Good morning everyone. I’m your tour guide for today. We’ve made a change to the trip we usually make on Thursdays. I hope none of you will mind. We’re still going to visit the beautiful town of Brampton with its old university, and there’lI be time to look round that as usual. But today, because we have a lot of children here this week, we’re also going to a wildlife park which a colleague of mine has recommended.
On the way to Brampton, we’ll drive through some beautiful countryside. We’ll go over the mountain and we’ll have a lovely view of the lake from the top. We’ll stop there for a few minutes so you can take some photos. In the next valley, we’ll have a break for coffee. There’s a cafe near a beautiful waterfall and if any of you want to go
for a walk, you can.
We’ll get to Brampton at about 11.30. It’s a lovely town. We’ll start by taking a guided tour of the university, which was built in the seventeenth century. Then there’lI be time for all of you to have a look at the shops. Most people come to Brampton nowadays for the shops, but it’s the university that made the town famous. If you don’t want to look at the shops, I suggest you visit the museum.
After lunch, we’ll get back on the coach and go to the wildlife park. We need to stay in the coach while we drive round because we’ll see lions in the park, which can obviously be dangerous. Tell your children not to expect it to be like the zoo – the animals are sometimes hiding in the trees. I know some friends of mine have seen some tigers, but I’ve never seen them and I’m afraid they no longer have any monkeys, but you may see some giraffes.
We’ll leave the wildlife park at half past five. The journey back takes about an hour and a quarter, so we’ll return to the hotel at a quarter to seven. There’lI just be time for you to change before dinner at a quarter past seven.
Now then, before we get on the bus, if anyone wants to ask any questions I’ll try to answer them. I’m going to give each of you an information sheet about the places we’re going to visit. Some of you were on yesterday’s trip with me and I know you found the information sheet helpful. So, if we just move over here ….
More exercises available for B1 Preliminary Part 4:
Part 3 - Gap-Filled Exercise
Part 4 - Multiple Choice Exercise
The B1 Preliminary Speaking test has four parts and you take it together with another candidate. There are two examiners. One of the examiners talks to you and the other examiner listens.
Part 1 - Read five real-world notices, messages and other short texts for the main message.
- Notices and Messages How to Video
- Notices and Messages Set 1
- Notices and Messages Set 2
- Notices and Messages Set 3
- Notices and Messages Set 4
- Notices and Messages Set 5
- Notices and Messages Set 6
- Notices and Messages Set 7
- Notices and Messages Set 8
Part 2 - Match five descriptions of people to eight short texts on a particular topic, showing detailed comprehension.
Part 3 - Read a longer text for detailed comprehension, gist, inference and global meaning, as well as writer’s attitude and opinion.
Part 4 - Read a longer text from which five sentences have been removed. Show understanding of how a coherent and well-structured text is formed.
Part 5 - Read a shorter text and choose the correct vocabulary items to complete gaps.
- Bagpipes
- Book Recommendation
- Mountain Climbing
- Playing Computer Games
- Popular Website
- Saving a Tree
- Single or Mixed-gender Schools
- Work of Art
Part 6 - Read a shorter text and complete six gaps using one word for each gap.
Write about 100 words, answering the email and notes provided.
Write about 100 words, either an article or story.
Articles
Short Stories
- Air Travel Crossword
- Computer Crossword
- Crime Crossword
- Entertainment Crossword
- Financial Language Crossword
- Food Crossword
- Health Crossword
- Home Crossword
- Language Crossword
- Leisure Crossword
- Money Crossword
- Natural World Crossword
- Places Crossword
- Shopping Crossword
- Sports Crossword
- Technology Crossword
- Texting Crossword
- Time Crossword
- Transport Crossword
- Travel Crossword
- Work and Jobs Crossword
- Adjectives with -ing Word Search
- Art Word Search
- Bonfire Night Word Search
- Buildings Word Search
- Classical Music Word Search
- Countryside Word Search
- Drama Word Search
- Education Word Search
- Entertainment Word Search
- Fast Food Word Search
- Feelings Word Search
- Food and Drink Word Search
- Football Word Search
- Gambling Word Search
- Haunted House Word Search
- Health Word Search
- Home Word Search
- Internet Word Search
- Language Word Search
- Leisure Word Search
- Natural World Word Search
- Shopping Word Search
- Sports Facilities Word Search
- Sports Word Search
- Sushi Word Search
- Technology Word Search
- Time Word Search
- Town and City Word Search
- Travel Word Search
- Weather Word Search
- Work Word Search
- Clothes Word Puzzle
- Color Word Puzzle
- Communication Word Puzzle
- Easter Word Puzzle
- Education Word Puzzle
- Entertainment Word Puzzle
- Environment Word Puzzle
- Food Word Puzzle
- Health Word Puzzle
- Hobbies Word Puzzle
- Language Word Puzzle
- Medicine Word Puzzle
- Natural World Word Puzzle
- Technology Word Puzzle
- Time Word Puzzle
- Weather Word Puzzle
- Air Travel Exercises
- Animals and Pets
- British and American English
- Chinese New Year
- Christmas
- Clothing
- Computer Exercises
- Easter (A2 – B1 Levels)
- Education
- Entertainment
- Environment
- Environmental Issues
- Finance Exercises
- Food and Drink
- Leisure and Hobbies
- Money Exercises
- Phoning and Texting Exercises
- Places and Buildings
- Relationships
- Transport and Travel
- Work and Jobs
- Short Story – Computer Problems
- Short Story – Art Competition
- Letter – Most Important Time
- Email – School Holidays
- Email – Subject Choices
- Email – about University
- Short Story – Talent Contest
- Book Review – The Call
- Speech – Course Introduction
- Email – New School
- Report – Eating out in Berlin
- Article – The Cardboard Bike
- Short Story – The Angel
- Report – Features of Glaciers
- Email – Saving Energy
- Short Story – In Free Fall
- Article – Being Famous
- Email – Favourite Film
- Email – Holiday in Thailand
- Email – Barbecue Invitation
- Email – Computer Games
- News Report – Bank Robbery
- Article – The Countryside
- Blog Post – A New Life in Japan
- Article – Work of Art
- Email – Visiting a relative
- Article – Schools for Boys and Girls
- Email – Party Invitation
- Movie Review – Ted
- Email – Summer School
- Email – Holiday Plans
- Email – Borrowing
Cambridge English exams are designed for learners at all levels from the pre-intermediate level Cambridge English: Key (KET) to the very advanced level Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE). These exams give candidates proof of their ability to use English in a wide variety of contexts, relevant to work, study and leisure activities.