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CAE Test 1
Alamy Images (Picking up litter/Mark Boulton), (Council worker removing graffiti/Mark Bassett), (Elderly people listening to Army band, France/Vehbi Koca), (Pensioners on day trip/Neil McAllister); Getty Images (Tornado clouds/Philippe Bourseiller), (windsurfing), (woman potting plant/Brand New Images), (Teacher reading to children in classroom/Jose Luis Pelaez), (Digging allotment/John Howard); Photolibrary (Yawning businessman/Ryan McVay/Photodisc), (office presentation/Chris Ryan/OJO Images); PunchStock (Boy examining stamp through magnifying glass/Blend Images), (Egg and spoon race/Digital Vision).
Extracts from ‘ How to volunteer at your local animal shelter’. Information provided by The Humane Society of the United States(www.humanesociety.org).
Extracts from ‘Curing a fear of heights’ by Nick Thorpe; From www.telegraph.co.uk , 27th June 2008. Reproduced by permission of Telegraph Media Group Limited.
Extracts from ‘Rider on the Storm’ by Mark Stratton; From www.telegraph.co.uk, 05th February 2001. Reproduced by permission of Telegraph Media Group Limited.
CAE Test 1 self-study
Alamy Images (Otztal Alps/Gareth McCormack), (children/Stock Connection Distribution), (Chinese restaurant/Frances M. Roberts), (students/Janine Wiedel Photolibrary), (estate agents window/Photofusion Picture Library); Corbis (Disneyland/Free Agents Limited); Getty Images (men in cafe/Greg Ceo/UpperCut Images); OUP (tropical island/Corbis/Digital Stock); PunchStock (meeting/PhotoAlto), (waiting/Radius Images), (woman with credit cards/Image Source), (couple/Digital Vision), Science Photo Library (Mars exploration/Detlev Van Ravenswaag).
‘We never really talk anymore’. From The New York Times, 6th August 2007. © 2007 The New York Times. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission and protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States. The printing, copying, redistribution, or retransmission of the material without express written permission is prohibited.
‘FAQS: My children can speak two languages. How can I help them belong to two cultures?’ © The Welsh Language Board. Reproduced by permission of Welsh Language Board.
‘Branch out into suspended animation’ by Nicholas Roe. © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2007.
CAE Test 2
Alamy Images (Windsurfers cross race finish line/simo), (White water rafting/Richard Smith), (Flower/Martin Hughes-Jones), (Traffic congestion/Robert Harding Picture Library Ltd.), (Cyclists, Shanghai, China/JLImages), (An electric car charges/Simon Hadley), (Commuters in the City of London/John Sturrock); BAA Aviation Picture Library (Stansted airport, aircraft queuing/© BAA Limited see www.baa.com/photolibrary); Getty Images (Boat on the beach/Chris Stein), (Commuters wait as the train arrives/AFP); PunchStock (College students talking/Blend Images), (Women drinking coffee/Blend Images), (Boy whispering to his grandfather/Blend Images), (Gondola ride, Venice, Italy/Digital Vision).
Extracts from ‘Atonement’ by Ian McEwan. Copyright © 2001 Ian McEwan. Reproduced by permission of the author c/0 Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd, 20 Powis Mews, London, W11 1JN.
Extracts from ‘Blackberry –free breaks; tune out, drop off’; From www.telegraph.co.uk , 01st August 2008. Reproduced by permission of Telegraph Media Group Limited.
Extracts from ‘A Robot with feelings is star of science museum show’ by Richard Alleyne; From www.telegraph.co.uk, 30th July 2008. Reproduced by permission of Telegraph Media Group Limited.
Sources:
Plant Hunting in China: an interview with Darrell Probst by Jennifer Brown (www.taunton.com)
CAE Test 2 self-study
Alamy Images (synthesia/Phototake Inc.); Corbis (man at computer/JLP/Jose Luis Pelaez/zefa), (Tokyo commuters/Paul Souders); Getty Images (lemongrass/Amy Neunsinger/The Image Bank), (canteen/Erik Dreyer/Riser), (treadmill/Shalom Ormsby/Blend Images), (man and car/Jens Koenig/Stock4B), (nanny/Michael Krasowitz/Taxi); OUP (family dinner/Digital Vision); PunchStock (family packing car/Tetra Images), (family reading/Creatas), (busy mum/Photodisc), (presentation/Corbis), (businessman & aeroplane/Corbis), (office building/Digital Vision).
‘Eau De Hotel’. From The New York Times, 9th November 2007. © 2007 The New York Times. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission and protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States. The printing, copying, redistribution, or retransmission of the material without express written permission is prohibited.
CAE Test A
Alamy Images (Easter Island/Dennis Cox), (woman on computer/Swerve), (handshake/ImageState), (classroom/Andrew Fox); Corbis (Fernando Alonso/Schlegelmilch), (cyclist/Photofusion Picture Library), (mother/Photofusion Picture Library), (wind turbines/SuperStock); Getty Images (football team/Kiriko Shirobayashi/Stone); OUP (girl texting/Chris King); PunchStock (welcoming family/Digital Vision), (doctor/Image Source), (businessmen on planes/Kenny Johnson/The Image Bank), (theatre/Mark Harmel/Stone), (Dubai/Ed Freeman/Stone).
‘Teaching swimming is an art – Teaching swimming is poetry’. © 2007 by Stephanie Dutton
CAE Test B
Alamy Images (studying/Photofusion Picture Library), (shark tank/Camera Lucida), Corbis (tuatara/Frans Lanting); Getty Images (teacher/Britt Erlanson/The Image Bank), (Bill Richardson & Robert Gallucci/Alex Wong), (hospital/Surgi Stock/Taxi), (children playing c.1933/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive), (blind soldiers learning to type/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive), (hoovering/Frank Martin/BIPs/Hulton Archive), (listening to the wireless/Harold M. Lambert/Hulton Archive), (men driving/Brian Seed/Time & Life Pictures), (boy reading/Frank Scherschel/Time & Life Pictures); PunchStock (clothes shopping/Brand X Pictures), (camping/UpperCut RF).
‘Journey to the heart of Nature’ by Jennie Erdal. © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2007.
‘Let there be Light’. © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2007.
Czech Maturita Vyšší (B2) Test A
Alamy Images 4.3 (Pavel Nedved/Associated Sports Photography), 4.3 (Jaromir Jagr/Vova Pomortzeff); Getty Images 4.3 (Jan Zelezny/Jakub Sukup/AFP); OUP 4.2 (underground/Dominic Harrison), 4.2 (driver/Digital Vision); Richard Ponsford 2.1 (flags)
Czech Maturita Vyšší (B2) Test 1
Alamy Images sect4.2.01 (brushing teeth/Mode Images Limited), sect4.2.02 (toothache/Bubbles Photolibrary), sect4.3.01 (Franz Kafka statue/Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library), sect4.3.02 (Jaroslav Hasek by Josef Lada), sect4.3.03 (plaque/Peter Erik Forsberg/Prague).
Czech Maturita Základní (B1) Test A
Alamy Images 4.2 (People shopping/Pitu Cau), 4.3 (Family at Christmas/Chad Ehlers); OUP 1.1 (Bearded man/Photodisc), 1.1 (Stressed man/Digital Vision), 1.1 (Happy man/Andres Rodriguez), 1.1 (Bag/Stephen Hawkins), 1.1 (Paris cityscape/Photodisc), 1.1 (MP3 player/Photodisc), 4.2 (Friends playing football/AFLO RF), 4.3 (Man giving girlfriend flowers/Digital Vision), 4.3 (Easter eggs/Good Shoot); Richard Ponsford 1.1 (film posters), 1.1 (train signs)
Czech Maturita Základní (B1) Test 1
Alamy Images sect 4.2.01 (recycling/Angela Hampton Picture Library), sect 4.3.04 (girl in kitchen/Visage), sect4.2.02 (playground/Sally & Richard Greenhill), sect4.3.02 (typing/Art Directors & TRIP), OUP sect1.1.07 (Policewoman/CS-Stock), sect1.1.09 (teacher/Image Source), sect1.1.09 (nurse/Photodisc), sect1.1.10 (prom/Polka Dot Images), sect4.3.02 (girl with phone/Creatas), sect4.3.03 (dancing/Photodisc).
Egzamin Gimnazjum Zestaw 1 (Poland)
OUP (friends/Chris King)
Egzamin Gimnazjum Zestaw A (Poland)
OUP (class/Photodisc), (driving/Photodisc), (restaurant/Photodisc), (pilot/image100), (doctor/Image Source), (birthday girl/Haddon Davies), (New York/Photodisc).
Érettségi emelt szint (B2) Test A (Hungary)
OUP 5.3 (Petrol station/David De Lossy/Photodisc); Photolibrary 5.3 (Charging electric car/Nancy Honey/Cultura).
Érettségi emelt szint (B2) Test 1 (Hungary)
OUP sect5.101 (man shopping/UpperCut), sect5.102 (shopping online/BananaStock).
Érettségi középszint (B1) Test A (Hungary)
OUP 5.3 (Inside underground train/Dominic Harrison), 5.3 (Traffic jam/Digital Vision).
Érettségi középszint (B1) Test 1 (Hungary)
OUP sect5.301 (beach/Photodisc), sect5.302 (walkers/Image Source).
FCE Sample
OUP (Circus/mime artist/Photodisc).
FCE Test 1
Alamy Images (Manchester 10K Greatrun/James Russell sport), (Girl in library/Rob Walls), (Immigration Museum, Australia/Bill Bachman); Getty Images (Arctic, North Pole/Daisy Gilardini), (Lance Bass signs autograph for fan); OUP (Man at an internet cafe/Photodisc); Photolibrary (Nurse taking patients blood pressure/Wendy Hope/Stockbyte), (Teacher in Primary school classroom/Digital Vision), (Two chefs preparing food/Stockbyte), (Woman talking in coffee house/Blend Images RF), (Man listening to CD on headphones/Juice Images); Rex Features (Tony Wheeler/Ben Smith).
‘Never a Lonely Planet’- Talking to Tony and Maureen Wheeler’ by Kirsty Wong From China Tourism magazine Jan/ Feb 2007.Reproduced by kind permission.
‘Starbucked: A double tall tale of Caffeine, Commerce and Culture’ by Taylor Clark. Copyright © 2007. By permission of Little Brown and Company. All rights reserved.
FCE Test 1 self-study
Corbis (computer screen/Frederic Larson/San Francisco Chronicle), (boys gaming/C.Devan/zefa); Pictures Colour Library Ltd (Trentino/Brian Lawrence Images Ltd); Alamy Images (drinking water/Lourens Smak), (gym/imagebroker), (sleeping/Niamh Baldock), (eating fruit/foodfolio); Getty images (speed walking/David Madison/Stone), (untidy bedroom/Yellow Dog Productions/The Image Bank); OUP (football/image101); PunchStock (band practice/Radius).
Commissioned illustrations by Mark Duffin.
‘For crying out loud, please can we have some quiet’ by Michael Hanlon, Daily Mail, 26 August 2007. Reproduced by permission of Daily Mail.
‘The world according to Google: Amis to Zeppelin’ by Oliver Burkeman, 29 December 2007, The Guardian . © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2007. Reproduced by permission.
FCE Test 2
BAA Aviation Picture Library (Group of friends at airport/© BAA Limited see www.baa.com/photolibrary); Getty Images (Group of students looking at bulletin board/Antonio Mo), (Teacher with girl at computer/Brad Wilson), (Jimmie Johnson, 2008 Ford 400/Fred Vuich/Sports Illustrated); OUP (Mars from Space/Photodisc), (Leopards in a tree/Digital Vision); Photolibrary (Teenagers at bowling alley/Digital Vision), (Father and son baiting fishing hook/Digital Vision), (children at birthday party/Corbis); PunchStock (Friends at a night club/Brand X Pictures), (Teenage boys sharing pizza/Digital Vision), (Lecturer assisting students during class/Digital Vision).
Sources:
Young Performer, July 2008
FCE Test 2 self-study
Alamy Images (desert/Chris Howes/Wild Places Photography), (pelican crossing/Photofusion Picture Library), (picking up from school/Ace Stock Limited); OUP (fridge/Mark Mason); PunchStock (couple checking in/Corbis), (camping/fStop).
Commissioned illustrations by Mark Duffin.
‘The most hideous plant on earth!’ by Sean Thomas, Daily Mail, 28 May 2007. Reproduced by permission of Daily Mail.
‘World asks town that banned the plastic bag: how can we do it too?’ by Patrick Barkham, The Guardian, 12 May 2007. © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2007. Reproduced by permission.
FCE Test A
Corbis (Lewis Hamilton/Schlegelmilch), (girl texting/Chris King); Alamy Images (market/Tor Eigeland), (telephone/D.Hurst), (cooker/Ingram Publishing, Superstock Limited), (washing machine/Mode Images Limited); OUP (fridge/Mark Mason), (waiter/Photodisc), (computer/Photodisc), (TV/Chris King); PunchStock (clothes shopping/Design Pics), (couple in diner/Brand X Pictures).
Commissioned illustrations by Mark Duffin.
‘On the move: Lewis Hamilton’ by Joseph Dunn, The Times, London, July 8, 2007. © NI Syndication, London 2007. Reproduced by permission.
‘Is it OK…to use a mobile phone?’ by Leo Hickman, 27 June 2006 © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2006. Reproduced by permission.
FCE Test B
Alamy Images (sleeping/Niamh Baldock), (family/Superclic), (ballroom dance/David Hancock), (skating/Kim Karpeles), (running/Mike Harrington); Getty Images (roller-coaster/Frederic J. Brown/AFP), (hikers/Hans Neleman/Taxi); OUP (swimming/Photodisc), (tennis/Creatas), (golf/Photodisc); PunchStock (climber/Image Source); PYMCA (Ministry of Sound/Naki).
Commissioned illustrations by Mark Duffin.
‘Nicci Gerrard falls fast asleep’ by Nicci Gerrard, The Observer, 29 December 1999. © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2006. Reproduced by permission.
‘Meet the great greats’ by Simon Rogers, The Guardian, 16 June 2007. © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2006. Reproduced by permission.
FCE Test C
Alamy Images (Siberian Tiger/Nigel Reed QEDimages), (Ballplayer House Central Park New York/Stock Connection Blue), (Radio DJ/Simon Belcher), (Teenager studying in very messy bedroom/Janine Wiedel Photolibrary), (Ohio Sandusky Washington Park concert/Jeff Greenberg), (students studying together in school library/Ian Shaw); Getty Images (Serving food at picnic/Yellow Dog Productions), (Cannes Beach, France/Oliver Benn), (mountain camping/Philip and Karen Smith), (children in playground/Rich Reid); PunchStock (playing football/Digital Vision), (Keukenhof Gardens/Photodisc).
Commissioned illustrations by David Eaton.
Extract from ‘My new home…is a zoo by Marianne Kavanagh, Woman’s Weekly 10 June 2008. Reproduced by permission of IPC Media.
IELTS Sample
OUP (Coral reef/Corel).
IELTS Test 1
Getty Images (Boy talking to baby/Natalie Kauffman), (Boat in water by iceberg, Greenland/Pete Turner), (Pumpkins/Panoramic Images).
Commissioned illustrations by Mark Duffin.
‘The One-Word Speaker’ from Psychology, Fourth edition by Henry Gleitman. Copyright © 1995, 1991, 1986, 1981 by W.W.Norton & Company, Inc. Used by permission of W.W.Norton & Company, Inc.
‘The Vertical Farm Essay II’ by Dickson Despommier ©2008 The Vertical Farm Project. Reproduced by kind permission of Dickson Despommier.
Extract from ‘Bees translate dances of foreign species’ by Ian Sample, 4 June 2008, from The Guardian. Copyright Guardian News & Media Ltd. 2008. Reproduced by permission.
Sources:
Driftnet fisheries and their impacts on non-target species: a worldwide review By Simon P. Northridge (http://www.fao.org)
General Household Survey 2005 Statistical Release 1: Socio-demographic and economic characteristics (http://www.singstat.gov.sg)
IELTS Test 1 self-study
‘Come fly with me’ by Jonathan Glancey, The Guardian, November 16, 2004. Copyright Guardian News and Media Limited 2004.
Extracts from the bbc.co.uk webpage Gladiators: Heroes of the Roman Amphitheatre. Reproduced by kind permission of BBC Information.
‘Humans with Altitude’, 2 November 2002. Reproduced by permission from New Scientist Magazine.
‘Living Online: This is your space’, 16 September 2006. Reproduced by permission from New Scientist Magazine.
Table from www.abs.gov.uk. © Australian Bureau of Statistics.
IELTS Test 2
OUP (Field of poppies/Photodisc); Photolibrary (School children working together in library/Howard Gray/Digital Vision), (Cod/Vicenzo Lombardo/Photodisc).
Commissioned illustrations by Mark Duffin.
‘Households expenditure over the years’, from The Guardian, 15 June 2008. Copyright Guardian News & Media Ltd. 2008. Reproduced by permission.
Sources:
The Guided Construction of Knowledge – Talk amongst Teachers and Learners By Neil Mercer (http://www.multilingual-matters.com)
Extreme Weather By H. M. Mogil (http://www.newhollandpublishers.com)
Where our money goes (http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2008/07/08/money15.pdf)
IELTS Test 2 self-study
‘Birdsong albums fly off the shelves’ by Vanessa Thorp, The Observer, March 28, 2004. Copyright Guardian News and Media Limited 2004.
‘When a Calendar Finally Settles Down’, 23 December 2006. Reproduced by permission from New Scientist Magazine.
‘Extreme Organisms’, 20 March 2002. Reproduced by permission from New Scientist Magazine.
‘Medical Humour’ by Clare Hughes, pp308-309 Volume/Issue 11. Student BMJ, September 2003. Reproduced with permission from BMJ Publishing Group.
Bar Graph from Office for National Statistics. Crown Copyright 2007. Reproduced under terms of the licence.
IELTS Test 3 self-study
‘Mastering the race’ by Henry Gee, The Guardian, November 18, 2004. Copyright Guardian News and Media Limited 2004.
‘Flying without wings’. Reproduced by permission from Telegraph Media Group Limited.
‘Better by Design’, 4 January 2007. Reproduced by permission from New Scientist Magazine.
‘Nice talking to you’, 9 February 2007. Reproduced by permission from New Scientist Magazine.
KET Sample
Alamy Images (Boy with a bike droving cows/Caro).
KET Test 1
Getty Images (house/Owain Kirby/Illustration Works); PunchStock (musical notation/Dorling Kindersley RF); Science Photo Library (Napoleon wrasse and diver/Matthew Oldfield), (Common dolphins/Christopher Swann).
Commissioned illustrations by David Eaton.
KET Test 1 self-study
Getty Images (Tokyo Game Show 2008/Junko Kimura), (rice/Michael Rosenfeld/Photographer's Choice), (train/Stock Illustration); PunchStock (skateboarding/Photodisc).
Commissioned illustrations by David Eaton.
KET Test 2
Alamy Images (Teenage girl playing drums/Eddie Linssen), (Italian ice-cream/Lourens Smak), Getty Images (camping/Stock Illustration); PunchStock (swimming/Photodisc).
Commissioned illustrations by David Eaton.
KET Test 2 self-study
Corbis (Indian Miniature Painting/Frédéric Soltan/Sygma); Getty Images (red panda/Joerg Koch/AFP).
Commissioned illustrations by David Eaton.
KET Test A
Getty Images (Andes/Gordon Wiltsie/National Geographic), (Art Wolfe/Lifesize), (computer/Stock Illustration), (tennis illustration/Darryl Shelton/Illustration Works).
Commissioned illustrations by David Eaton.
Matura pis., poziom podst. 1 (Poland)
OUP 1 (camping/fStop), 2 (girl with cat/Brand X Pictures), 3 (woman jogging/Digital Vision), 4 (sign/Photodisc), 5 (St. Bernard/Corbis/Digital Stock), 6 (rat/Photodisc), 7 (scientist/Photodisc).
Commissioned illustrations by Mark Duffin
Extract from Oxford Bookworms Library 3: Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe © Oxford University Press 2008. Reproduced by permission.
Extract entitled ‘James Stuart Miranda Barry’ from Oxford Companion to Military History by Holmes, R © Oxford University Press 2001. Reproduced by permission.
Extracts from ‘Sonny Jo White, Boston DJ’. Reprinted with permission of TeenInk Magazine and TeenInk.com.
Matura pis., poziom podst. A (Poland)
OUP 1 (hospital/Blend Images), 2 (girls/Johner Images), 3 (businesswoman/Corbis/Digital Stock), 4 (sports coach/BananaStock).
Extract from Oxford Bookworms 6 American Crime Stories retold by John Escott © Oxford University Press 2008, from the original Patricia Highsmith Der Schneckenforscher. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Melanie Walz. Copyright © 2003 Diogenes Verlag AG Zürich. Reproduced by permission.
Matura pis., poziom podst. B (Poland)
OUP 1 (Girls shopping), 2 (White water rafting/Richard Smith), 3 (Artist/Blend Images), 4 (Snorkeler with fish/Photodisc).
Commissioned illustrations by Mark Duffin
‘How to Keep That Holiday High’ by Zoe Seymour SHE, September 2002. Courtesy of SHE Magazine © The National Magazine Company. Reprinted by permission of The National Magazine Company.
‘Kangaroo to the Rescue’ from Current, Issue 5, May 2004 © Mary Glasgow Magazines/Scholastic
Information from ‘France pays to boost birth rate’ Reuters, September 23, 2005. Copyright 2006 Reuters. Reprinted with permission from Reuters. Reuters content is the intellectual property of Reuters or its third party content providers. Any copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.
Reuters and the Reuters Sphere Logo are registered trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world. For additional information about Reuters content and services, please visit Reuters website at www.reuters.com http://www.reuters.com License REU-GC7882.
Matura pis., poziom podst. Fragment A (Poland)
Extract from ‘Oxford Bookworms Factfiles 4: Disaster!’ by Mary McIntosh © Oxford University Press 1999. Reprinted by permission
Extract from ‘Britain’ by James O’Driscoll © Oxford University Press 1995. Reprinted by permission.
Matura pis., poziom podst. Prόbka (Poland)
Extract from ‘Oxford Bookworms Library 5: Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte © Oxford University Press 2000. Reprinted by permission.
Matura pis., poziom rozszerz. 1 (Poland)
OUP 1 (camping/fStop), 2 (girl with cat/Brand X Pictures), 3 (woman jogging/Digital Vision), 4 (sign/Photodisc), 5 (St. Bernard/Corbis/Digital Stock), 6 (rat/Photodisc), 7 (scientist/Photodisc).
Commissioned illustrations by Mark Duffin
Adapted extract from The Star by E. L. Claes. Reproduced by kind permission of the author.
Extract from ‘Dogs can ‘read emotion’ in faces’, 31 October 2008, Press Association. Reproduced by permission.
Extract from ‘Being Beastly’ by Dave Hill, 30 October 2008, from www.guardian.co.uk. Copyright Guardian News & Media Ltd 2008. Reproduced by permission.
Extract from ‘Should we do a houseswap?’, 10 February 2006, from www.guardian.co.uk. Copyright Guardian News & Media Ltd 2006. Reproduced by permission.
Abridged extract from ‘Interview With Zeb Hogan, Aquatic Ecologist and National Geographic Emerging Explorer’, 8 July 2008, from www.nationalgeographic.com. Reproduced by kind permission of Zeb Hogan.
Sources:
www.wikipedia.com
Matura pis., poziom rozszerz. A (Poland)
OUP 1 (hospital/Blend Images), 2 (girls/Johner Images), 3 (businesswoman/Corbis/Digital Stock), 4 (sports coach/BananaStock).
Matura pis., poziom rozszerz. B (Poland)
OUP 1 (Girls shopping), 2 (White water rafting/Richard Smith), 3 (Artist/Blend Images), 4 (Snorkeler with fish/Photodisc).
Commissioned illustrations by Mark Duffin
‘My life has been recycled’ by Andrew Neather, first published in the Evening Standard, 10th May 2005. Reprinted by permission of Solo Syndication.
‘Tornado wreaks havoc in Birmingham’ by James Fielding, adapted by Martin Wainwright, The Guardian Weekly August 5-11, 2005. Copyright James Fielding. Reprinted by permission of Guardian News and Media 2008.
‘Video Games Find a Place in Academia’ by Seth Schiesel from The New York Times December 3, 2005 © 2005 The New York Times. www.nytimes.com All Rights Reserved. Used by permission and protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States. The printing, copying, redistribution, or retransmission of the Material without express written permission is prohibited.
‘The New Kids’ Museums’ by Jeremy Caplin, www.timeforkids.com, February 13, 2004. © 2004 TIME for Kids. Reprinted by permission.
‘The Vanishing Flowers of Britain’ by Michael McCarthy. First published in The Independent, 9 May 2005 © Independent News & Media. Reprinted by permission.
PET Test 1
Corbis (Teen using MP3 player in coffee shop/Jim Craigmyle); Getty Images (River Liffey, County Wicklow, Republic of Ireland/IIC/Axiom); Photolibrary (dancing/Image100); PunchStock (Guitarist/Image Source).
Commissioned illustrations by David Eaton.
PET Test 1 self-study
Alamy Images (Snowdonia/Sean Burke), (water park/Robert Fried); Corbis (elephant/Buddy Mays); PunchStock (performer/Digital Vision).
Commissioned illustrations by David Eaton.
PET Test 2
Alamy Images (Christmas shopping, Oxford Street, London/Peter Scholey); Getty Images (The Great Wall, China/OTHK); (Woman running from starting block on track/Tara Moore); OUP (Lustleigh, Devon/Corel).
Commissioned illustrations by David Eaton.
PET Test 2 self-study
Alamy Images (Andalusia/David Askham), (desert/Alex Griffiths), (teens eating/Bubbles Photolibrary); OUP (waiter/Photodisc).
Commissioned illustrations by David Eaton.
PET Test 3 self-study
Alamy Images (Congress Centre/CuboImages srl), (photographer/Ron Chale Stock), (St. Tropez/Peter Horree); Getty Images (family/Peter Correz/Stone).
Commissioned illustrations by David Eaton.
PET Test A
Corbis (The Birmingham Royal Ballet/Robbie Jack); OUP (Edinburgh/Photodisc), (friends/Gareth Boden); PunchStock (school prom/Polka Dot Images).
Commissioned illustrations by David Eaton.
PET Test B
Getty Images (The Amphitheatre, Kwazulu-Natal/John Lamb/Stone), Photolibrary (feeding giraffes/Purestock), (girl studying/Blend), (students/Somos).
Commissioned illustrations by David Eaton.
Slovak Maturita (B1) Test A
OUP 5.1 (underground/Dominic Harrison), 5.1 (driving/Digital Vision).
Slovak Maturita (B1) Test 1
OUP sect5.1_01 (beach/Photodisc), sect5.1_02 (walking/Image Source).
Slovak Maturita (B2) Test A
Alamy Images 5.1 (People shopping/Pitu Cau); OUP 5.1 (Friends playing football/AFLO RF).
Slovak Maturita (B2) Test 1
OUP sect5.101 (man shopping/UpperCut), sect5.102 (shopping online/BananaStock).
TOEFL (all tests)
Adaptation of the TOEFL iBT Test Directions, copyright © 2005. Used by permission of Educational Testing Service, the copyright owner. No endorsement of this publication and/or website by ETS should be inferred.
TOEFL Test A
OUP W1.1 (male professor/Photodisc), S6.1 (young female teacher/Blend Images), L6.1 (teacher writing/Fancy); Photolibrary L1.1 (Professor & student/Purestock), L2.1 (teacher/Rubberball), L3.1 (female teacher/Blend Images RF), S3.1 (young students/Dex Image), L4.1 (Doctor & girl/Blend Images RF), S4.1 (teacher in class/Radius Images), L5.1 (lecturer/White), S5.1 (students/BananaStock).
Commissioned illustrations by Joanna Kerr.
TOEFL Test 1
Alamy Images (tree/Jason Brindel Landscapes); OUP (log/Photodisc).
TOEFL Test 1 Self Study
Alamy Images L6_04 (remote control/David J. Green); PunchStock L6_02 (doorknob/Image Source).
TOEFL Test 2
Alamy Images L3_03 (canal lock/Garry DeLong).
TOEFL Test 2 Self Study
Alamy Images L5_02 (map & compass/John Penezic), L5_03 (map/Art of Nature); OUP (human skeleton/Ingram Image Library)
TOEIC (all tests)
Adaptation of the TOEIC Test Directions, copyright © 2006. Used by permission of Educational Testing Service, the copyright owner. No endorsement of this publication and/or website by ETS should be inferred.
TOEIC Test A
OUP 1 (man writing/Image Source), 2 (meeting/PhotoAlto), 3 (maid/Corbis), 4 (Cornwall/Corel), 5 (Bulgaria/Photodisc), 6 (student/Image Source), 7 (meeting/Photodisc), 8 (country road/Photodisc), 9 (kitchen/Aardvark), 10 (library/Photodisc).
TOEIC Test 1 Self Study
OUP 1 (Newquay/Corel), 2 (street/Photodisc), 3 (meeting/Photodisc), 4 (forklift truck/image100), 5 (classroom/Photodisc), 6 (houses/Chris King), 7 (office worker/Steve Betts), 8 (barbeque/image100), 9 (airplane/Image Source), 10 (watching tv/Chris King).
TOEIC Test 1
OUP 1 (train station/Stockbyte), 2 (businessman/Photodisc), 3 (train/Corel), 4 (supermarket/Chris King), 5 (man/Stockbyte), 6 (mother and daughter/Photodisc), 7 (street/Photodisc), 8 (family/Photodisc), 9 (two men/Photodisc), 10 (hiker/Melba Photo Agency).
TOEIC Test 2 Self Study
OUP 1 (businessman/Gareth Boden), 2 (road/Photodisc), 3 (building/Phtotdisc), 4 (ship/Photodisc), 5 (shopping/Photodisc), 6 (timber/Photodisc), 7 (garden/Photodisc), 8 (interview/Stock byte/George Doyle), 9 (canal/Image Source), 10 (lunch/Stockbyte).
TOEIC Test 2
OUP 1 (mechanic/Valueline), 2 (studio/Gareth Boden), 3 (meeting/Photodisc), 4 (businessman/Digital Vision/Tony Hopewell), 5 (shopping/Digital Vision/Bruce Laurance), 6 (villas/Photodisc), 7 (post office/Gareth Boden), 8 (woman in car/image 100), 9 (airport/Photodisc), 10 (man on phone/Stockbyte).
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