Reading & Listening Practice

Reading: A Community Centre Notice

Read this notice, then answer the questions. Try to answer before you look at the answers.

Riverside Community Centre — Weekly Notice
Welcome to Riverside Community Centre! We are open Monday to Saturday, 9 am to 6 pm. We are closed on Sundays.
This week’s activities:
Monday: Cooking class, 10 am (bring an apron)
Wednesday: English conversation group, 2 pm (free, all levels welcome)
Friday: Family football, 4 pm, in the park behind the centre
Coffee and tea are $1.50. Please bring your own water bottle.
For more information, call 555-0142 or ask at the reception desk.

Reading Questions

  1. What time does the centre open?
  2. Which day is the centre closed?
  3. What happens on Wednesday? How much does it cost?
  4. What do you need to bring to the cooking class?
  5. Where is the family football?
  6. How much is a coffee?
  7. What number should you call for more information?
  8. True or false: the centre is open on Saturday afternoon.
Show the answers
  1. 9 am
  2. Sunday
  3. An English conversation group. It’s free.
  4. an apron
  5. in the park behind the centre
  6. $1.50
  7. 555-0142
  8. True (it’s open 9 am to 6 pm, Monday to Saturday)

Listening Practice

This course doesn’t have recorded listening tests yet, so practise with our audio tools, which say words and sentences clearly:

  1. Spelling Quiz: listen to a word and type it. Do one round at A1 and write down any words you get wrong.
  2. Pronunciation Practice: listen to a word, say it, and check your pronunciation.
  3. With a partner: ask a friend to read the notice above out loud, slowly. Close your eyes and answer questions 1, 2 and 6 from memory.

Try our Spelling Quiz →

Try Pronunciation Practice →

Listen and Note

Ask someone to read these sentences to you at normal speed (or read them aloud and record yourself, then listen). Write down the key information.

  1. “The meeting is at three o’clock, in Room 5, on Tuesday.”
  2. “The train to Manchester leaves from platform 2 at a quarter past nine.”
  3. “A coffee and two sandwiches, that’s eleven dollars fifty, please.”
Show the answers
  1. 3 o’clock · Room 5 · Tuesday
  2. Manchester · platform 2 · 9:15
  3. $11.50 · a coffee and two sandwiches

Connect

Look up any word you don’t know, and hear it spoken, in our dictionary.

Open the English Dictionary →

CEFR A1 — Reading: I can understand short, simple notices. Listening: I can catch numbers, times and places when people speak slowly and clearly.

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