Talking to Tom

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Tom's familyTalking 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.

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Listen to a short conversation between a teacher who is talking to Tom.

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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.

We regularly add listening and speaking exercises in order to practise for this part of the Pre A1 Starters test.
In addition, we add reading and writing exercises on a regular basis. Why not bookmark our site, so you can come back to practice anywhere or at any time of the day?
The more words you encounter and understand, the broader your day-to-day vocabulary will become. Our word games and puzzles are an excellent way to help to reinforce spellings in your mind.

Especially helpful are exercises that are focussed on a theme or topic as these provide word retention practice so you can be confident to read, write, speak and listen successfully.

At this beginner level, these exercises 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.

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