Talking to Tom is a listening exercise to practice for Part 2 of the Cambridge Assessment English Pre A1 Starters (YLE) exam. For this part, you should be able to listen to numbers and spell names.
More listening exercises available:
Talking to Tom
One
A: Hello, Tom. Have you got a sister?
B: Yes her name is Lucy.
A: Is that L-U-C-Y?
Two
A: And how old is you sister?
B: She’s 6 years old.
A: Six?
B: Yes, she is.
Three
A: Have you got many friends at school?
B: Yes lots. I have eight friends.
A: Eight?
B: That’s a lot.
A: Yes, it’s nice to have good friends.
Four
A: Have your sister got a friend?
B: Yes, her friend’s name is Sue.
A: How do you spell that?
B: S-U-E
Five
A: What can Sue do?
B: She can write numbers.
A: How many numbers can she write?
B: Sixteen
A: Sorry, sixteen?
B: That’s right.
- Listening Part 1
- Listening Part 2
- Listening Part 3
- Listening Part 4
- Speaking Videos
- Speaking Part 1 and Part 2
- Speaking Part 3
- Speaking Part 4
Here are video of the full test from Cambridge Assessment English.
You see a big picture and you point to things. Then you put three things on the picture and answer questions about it.
You will see three pictures and you will answer three questions about each picture.
You will answer three questions with a word or short phrase.
- Pre A1 Animal Set 1 Memory Cards
- Pre A1 Animal Set 2 Memory Card
- Pre A1 Animal Set 3 Memory Cards
- Pre A1 Body Set 1 Memory Cards
- Pre A1 Body Set 2 Memory Cards
- Pre A1 Clothes Set 1 Memory Cards
- Pre A1 Clothes Set 2 Memory Cards
- Pre A1 Colours
- Pre A1 Family & Friends Set 1 Memory Cards
- Pre A1 Family & Friends Set 2 Memory Cards
- Pre A1 Family and Friends
- Pre A1 Food and Drink Set 1 Memory Cards
- Pre A1 Food and Drink Set 2 Memory Cards
- Pre A1 Food and Drink Set 3 Memory Cards
- Pre A1 Our World Memory Cards
- Pre A1 School Set 1 Memory Cards
- Pre A1 School Set 2 Memory Cards
- Pre A1 Sports & Leisure Memory Cards
- Pre A1 The Home Set 1 Memory Cards
- Pre A1 The Home Set 2 Memory Cards
- Pre A1 Toys Memory Cards
- Pre A1 Animal Word Puzzle
- Pre A1 Body and Face Word Puzzle
- Pre A1 Clothes Word Puzzle
- Pre A1 Colours Word Puzzle
- Pre A1 Directions Word Puzzle
- Pre A1 Family and Friends Word Puzzle
- Pre A1 Food and Drink Word Puzzle
- Pre A1 Home Word Puzzle
- Pre A1 My Street Word Puzzle
- Pre A1 Names Word Puzzle
- Pre A1 Numbers 1-20
- Pre A1 Body and Face Word Search
- Pre A1 Directions Word Search
- Pre A1 Food and Drink Set 1 Word Search
- Pre A1 Food and Drink Set 2 Word Search
- Pre A1 Food and Drink Set 3 Word Search
- Pre A1 My Street Word Search
- Pre A1 Our World Word Search
- Pre A1 Places Word Search
- Pre A1 School Set 1 Word Search
- Pre A1 School Set 2 Word Search
- Pre A1 Sports and Leisure Set 1 Word Search
- Pre A1 Sports and Leisure Set 2 Word Search
- Pre A1 The Home Set 2 Word Search
- Pre A1 Time Word Search
- Pre A1 Toys Word Search
- Pre A1 Transport Word Search
- Pre-A1 The Home Set 3 Word Search
At this beginner level, these exercises provide confidence to speak at this basic level of English.
At this beginner level, there are materials concerned with basic English vocabulary to provide confidence to speak at this basic level of English.
There are materials specifically concerned with a particular grammar structure at this beginner level of English, useful for when it is being introduced for the first time. The main structure at this level is the Present Simple and you will find resources for this as well as others such as frequency adverbs.
There are resources at a beginner level that will give students practice in listening and writing. At this low level, the writing materials are generally short phrases or sentences.