Exam tips

• In these texts you get lots of extra information about people's ages and appearances. This information is included to make the listening task more demanding. You don't need to understand it to get the right answer - just listen out for the names of which family member they are.

• Sometimes in the listening (and reading) exams you have to show you know the answer by completing a diagram. For example, you could have to mark a place on a map. In this task you have to complete a simple family tree - you have almost certainly learnt about family trees at school, but remember that people in the same generation are on the same horizontal line. For example, your brothers, sisters and cousins would be on the same line as you. Then your parents, aunts and uncles would be one line up, and your grandparents two lines above you.

• In many questions you have to write the name of a town, country or person to show that you have understood. It usually doesn't matter if you make a slight spelling mistake in proper names and in this task you are given the names in a box so you can copy them.

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