CAE Listening

Today we are going to try our hand at a CAE Listening test.

The test I have chosen is somehow easy compared to the present-day test but it gives you an idea of the linguistic level.

This Friday we will be begin the classic book talks according to the list:

Name	Title of book	Author
Johan Erkers	The three musketeers	Alexandre Dumas
Sophia Tillas Engberg	Sense and Sensibility	Jane Austen
Sana Al-Salih	Christmas Stories	Charles Dickens
Johanna Målarbo	Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens
Linnea Carlsson	Pride and prejudice	Jane Austen
Zandrina Modin	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Alice Through The Loooking Glass
Markus West	The lost world	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Gustaf Grane Elisson	Uncle Tom's cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe
Daniel Öhrn	Robinson Cruesoe	Daniel Defoe

By Friday please complete and bring along the answers for Act I of "The Two Gentlemen of Verona"

Here are the study questions for Act I

Scene 1

1.     How does the play begin ?

2.     Which characters are on stage?

3.     What are they discussing ?

4.     What is Valentine about to do?

5.     Who is Speed? Why do you think he is called the way he is ?

Scene 2

1.     Who is Julia ?

2.     What is her relationship to Lucetta?

3.     In what ways this scene “comic”?

4.     Who is Julia in love with?

Scene 3

1.     In all these scenes, there is a master/mistress and servant? Who is the servant here?

2.     Panthino is not like Lucetta and Speed. Why?

3.     Proteus gets tricked by his own lies. Can you explain how?

4.     What is the relationship between Antonio and Proteus?

5.     Give examples of 5 puns (plays on words) from the First Act of the Play