Certificate in

ESOL Skills for Life

Entry 1 — Reading
February 2009

Your full name:

(BLOCK CAPITALS)

Centre: Date:

Candidate registration number:

Time allowed: 30 minutes

Please answer all questions. Write your answers in pen not pencil.
You may not use dictionaries. You may not use correction fluid.

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Certificate in ESOL Skills for Life

Entry 1 — Reading
Time allowed: 30 minutes
This examination paper contains 15 questions. Answer all questions.

Task 1

Read the text below and then answer questions 1–10.

Brancaster College
Open: 8am–10pm

The library is open from 9am to 5pm. You can take books home. You return the books
after seven days.
There are three computer rooms. You can use them from 9.30am to 8pm. You need
your student card.
The sports centre is open from 8.30am to 9.30pm. It costs £3.00 before 6pm. After
6pm it is free with your student card.
You can relax in the common room from 8am to 10pm.
The café is open from 11am to 3pm.

Questions

1. The text is (Please circle the letter of the correct answer)

A a story about Brancaster College
B information about Brancaster College
C a letter from a friend

2. What can you keep at home for one week?

3. Where do you need your student card? (Please circle the letter of the correct answer)
A in the computer rooms and the sports centre
B in the library and the common room
C in the library and the café

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Questions

4. The sports centre is free for students (Please circle the letter of the correct answer)
A all day
B in the morning
C in the evening

5. Where can students relax?

6–10. Complete the table. What time does each place close? The first one is an example.

Place Closes

Example the college 10pm

6. the library

7. the computer rooms

8. the sports centre

9. the common room

10. the café

Please turn over page 3

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Task 2

Queen’s Cross Railway Station Albert Railway Station

Questions
Look at the information above and answer the questions.
(Please circle the letter of the correct answer)

11. In Queen’s Cross Railway Station there is

A a waiting room
B a café
C a car park

12. Which station sells newspapers?

A Queen’s Cross Railway Station
B Albert Railway Station
C they don’t sell newspapers

13. In Albert Railway Station you can’t

A park your car
B leave your bicycle
C use a lift

14. Where can you buy a ticket?

A Queen’s Cross Railway Station
B Albert Railway Station
C Queen’s Cross and Albert Railway Stations

15. Which sentence is correct?

A You can’t buy fast food in Albert Railway Station.
B Albert Railway Station doesn’t have a postbox.
C You can leave your bags at Queen’s Cross Railway Station.

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