English as a Second Language (Speaking endorsement) 0510 | Paper 2 Mock 01 | Component: Listening

Correct answer: D

The recording says: “so I copied that and kept going wider, and it turned into a bowl. A proper one. It's drying now.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: the mug is the shape the teacher demonstrated, which she copied and then changed
• B: the vase is what she set out to make, and it collapsed after ten seconds
• C: the plant pot is what she plans to make at next week's class

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Correct answer: B

The recording says: “The one thing I haven't got is a bottle. Mine went missing after games last week”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: her mother is making the lunch that evening, so it is already arranged
• C: the boots are the item the teacher stressed, and she has borrowed her brother's pair
• D: the waterproof is already in her bag

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Correct answer: A

The recording says: “Can we not just get ice cream? Go on, then. Get the big tub”

Why the other options are wrong:

• B: there are already two bags of popcorn at home from the last film night
• C: the grandmother is bringing biscuits, so they are covered
• D: chocolates are suggested and dismissed because they would melt in the heat

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Correct answer: C

The recording says: “The actual piece is for guitar. It's for the school concert in June.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: he played the drums for one week and stopped after his mother complained about the neighbours
• B: the keyboard is only being used to work out the notes
• D: the violin belongs to his father and he has never played it

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Correct answer: B

The recording says: “Put me down for the Saturday one, and I'll see a bit of the countryside while I'm at it.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: yoga is the class he has already done for six years and wants to move on from
• C: badminton is offered but he has no partner after three weeks in the town
• D: the cycling class is on Thursday, the day he works

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Correct answer: C

The recording says: “my sister collects the scarves. Then she'll want this year's. I'll take one of those, please.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: the lanterns are what everyone buys, and the assistant says they will not survive his flight
• B: the basket is offered as the option that packs flat, and he does not take it
• D: the carved masks are ruled out because they are heavy

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Correct answer: D

The recording says: “There's a bus that goes almost door to door. It takes an hour and a half, but I can get some work done on the way.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: the train is suggested but engineering work stops it from Friday lunchtime
• B: cycling is suggested and she refuses because of the weather
• C: her car is the one in the workshop with a brake fault

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Correct answer: A

The recording says: “The deer. There's a herd of forty in the lower meadow and they stay out all afternoon.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• B: foxes are in the park but only appear at dusk
• C: the heron is usually on the lake in the mornings and flew off an hour before
• D: the red squirrels are what the visitor asked about, and they are high in the trees at this hour

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Correct answer: C

The recording says: “I went in expecting to spend the whole evening being told I'd missed the point of the book. It isn't like that at all. Nobody's trying to win.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: the trouble with preparation is her own, that she cannot always finish a novel in a month, and she never says it of the others
• B: she offers Nobody's trying to win as a relief, not as a complaint about the group

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Correct answer: B

The recording says: “So now I read on the bus, at lunchtime, standing in queues. But if the group folded tomorrow, I'd still be reading on that bus.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: the books are raised only to be called fine, and some better than fine, which is the one thing she is lukewarm about
• C: the friend dropped out before the first meeting and now only asks about the books from outside

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Correct answer: C

The recording says: “What's changed isn't the machines, it's that asking for a repair has somehow turned into an odd thing to want.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: this is what her customers assume when they apologise for bringing something in, and she corrects it with nine times out of ten it is
• B: parts are the one thing she says has never defeated her, sent from six different countries

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Correct answer: C

The recording says: “Some of these things are glued shut, and getting one open without wrecking it takes an hour before I've even looked at the fault. It's screws. Just give me screws.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: parts are exactly what she says never hold her up
• B: better training is one of the two answers she says people expect from her, and she rejects both

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Correct answer: A

The recording says: “Everyone keeps telling me to pick whatever I'm best at, and what I'm best at is maths, and I don't actually like maths.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• B: everyone does say the same thing, but the repetition is not what troubles him, the fit is
• C: his uncle's warning is a separate worry about employment rather than a contradiction of the careers advice

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Correct answer: B

The recording says: “But you're fifteen. The job you'll be doing at thirty probably doesn't have a name yet.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: the job with no name yet can be misread as a reason to wait, but she immediately tells him what to collect now
• C: she agrees in part with the uncle about needing paid work, but she never connects that warning to his age

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Correct answer: A

The recording says: “I said exactly that, sitting on the hard shoulder at midnight. Ask me now, though.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• B: he was in favour on the night of the breakdown, which is what I said exactly that refers to
• C: everyone's saying we should just fly is the rest of the squad's view, reported by the first speaker, and it is the view he is moving away from

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Correct answer: B

The recording says: “on that coach we actually talked to each other. I could name half that squad by the time we got home, and I couldn't in September.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: the coach broke down twice and they got in at one in the morning, which is the part he wants fixed rather than the best part
• C: they did talk on the coach, but he says plainly that it was not about the game

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Correct answer: A

The recording says: “Because I stopped throwing food away. Half of what I used to buy ended up in the bin.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• B: she is asked about saving money and says it works out about the same, give or take
• C: she names this herself as the reason everyone assumes, and says plainly it is not why she has stuck with it

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Correct answer: C

The recording says: “Everyone I know who does that orders the same six things every week and gets bored by March.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: wanting to choose is the younger neighbour's own position, and the older one answers it rather than agreeing with it
• B: the two pounds is a real figure that she quotes, but she never suggests it is beyond anyone

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Correct answer: A

The recording says: “After three weeks I was so bored of walking that I started running the last stretch home.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• B: he says plainly that he was not trying to get fit
• C: he raises being inspired and watching a race only in order to deny both

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Correct answer: B

The recording says: “First mistake, and nearly everybody makes it. Too fast.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: going further than feels sensible is the weekly long run he prescribes, not a mistake
• C: four easy runs a week is the pattern he recommends, not one he warns against

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Correct answer: A

The recording says: “What matters, and nobody asks me this, is replacing them.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• B: the expensive pairs are discussed, and their price is the thing people do ask him about
• C: reading six reviews is what people have already done before they get to him

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Correct answer: C

The recording says: “My rule is that it should be slow enough to be slightly embarrassing.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: it is the session everybody dreads and the one doing all the work, which is about its importance rather than its effort
• B: he defines it as the run where you go further than feels sensible

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Correct answer: A

The recording says: “the one thing I've watched work for everybody is eating something within half an hour of stopping”

Why the other options are wrong:

• B: he mentions a special drink with a mountain on the label only to dismiss it
• C: he raises the nutritionist only in order to say he is not one

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Correct answer: B

The recording says: “Now I write it into the week the way I write in a session.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: that is exactly what he says he used to think five years ago
• C: when a week falls apart he drops a run and keeps the rest day

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Correct answer: C

The recording says: “I set off with a group who looked like they knew what they were doing, and I walked the last three miles.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: the knee injury is real, from the opening of the talk, but the walking is explained by the pace he set off at
• B: he had been given the best advice he ever received and says he ignored it completely

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Correct answer: B

The recording says: “It's the first wet morning you go out anyway, and you're not proud of yourself, you don't tell anybody, you just go.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: he states directly that you are not proud of yourself
• C: people want a number of months from him and he says he has not got one

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Correct answer: E

The recording says: “I got home that night and found an evening course, two hours a week from September. My wife thinks it's a phase. It is not a phase.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: he was one of a few people invited to stir, so nothing here was missed by everybody else
• B: he mentions the price of nothing at all
• F: stirring the curds is a single moment, but he never says it changed how he felt about the visit, only that it sent him looking for a course

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Correct answer: A

The recording says: “Not one other person came past the entire time I was reading it. he said that in three years I'm the first visitor to mention the bees.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• D: he was on his own behind the barn, but he says nothing about preferring the quiet, only about what the others failed to see
• F: the beehives held his attention, but his opinion of the day is not described as changing

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Correct answer: F

The recording says: “That one thing changed the whole day for me. I looked at everything differently afterwards.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• B: she buys flour repeatedly but never says anything about what it costs
• E: she has gone back twice to buy flour, which is not the same as finding a course
• H: her opinion does change, but it changes at the gate, right at the start, not after the halfway point

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Correct answer: D

The recording says: “What I actually liked was the twenty minutes afterwards, when everyone had moved on and you'd hear the hens again. Best part of the whole day.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: she is alone at the top of the field, but she is not seeing anything the crowd missed, she is enjoying the emptiness
• H: the quiet twenty minutes come after the demonstrations, but she says the demonstrations themselves were fine, so nothing turned around for her

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Correct answer: H

The recording says: “First hour, I'm counting the minutes. Then after lunch they opened up the kitchen garden and started the cooking sessions, and something shifted.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• D: the quiet he describes is the first hour of queuing, which is the part he disliked
• E: he makes soup with strangers and enjoys it, but he finds no course afterwards
• F: the kitchen garden opening is what turns the day around, but he puts it down to time rather than to any one detail, same day, same weather, same people

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Correct answer: B

The recording says: “I'd been saving up for weeks, because I assumed a day like that'd clear me out completely. Getting in cost about the price of a movie ticket.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: the free tastings and tours were open to everyone, so she has spotted nothing the others walked past
• C: she mentions the bus, but only what it cost her, never how long it took

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Correct answer: C

The recording says: “nobody could face signing up to a Saturday every week for the rest of their life. Ask for very little and hardly anybody drops out.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: people did give her advice about the size of the commitment, but they told her it was too small to be worth anything
• B: the eleven towns and the hundred people are real, and they are results rather than the reason she chose two hours

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Correct answer: A

The recording says: “I didn't know what you were supposed to do, so I asked people what they actually wanted.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• B: the garden centre job is real, but her point is that it helped precisely because it was not a qualification
• C: she had volunteered with other schemes, and she describes them as doing it the wrong way round

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Correct answer: A

The recording says: “When we reached two hours I said, right, anybody who wants to stay on, stay on. Then three of those nine never came back.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• B: the four hour job squeezed into two hours is real, and she says that part was fine, because the error was breaking the promise
• C: the eleven who came and the nine who stayed are real numbers, and she says she was thrilled by them

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Correct answer: C

The recording says: “we can only take on things that break into two hour pieces. that needs the same people every Tuesday at the same time.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: she describes the requests she refuses as obviously worth doing
• B: she says plainly that finding volunteers is not the hard part of the job

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Correct answer: C

The recording says: “people in their fifties who've just changed jobs or moved house. Something has shifted in their week and they're looking for a way back into the town.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: students are what she assumed the answer would be when the scheme started, and she corrects herself
• B: the students who leave in June are real, but the largest group is still with her four years later

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Correct answer: B

The recording says: “I've no say in what any of them do with it, and I've stopped wanting one.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: the growth was unplanned and she resisted it, but she expresses no regret about how it happened
• C: what frightened her was ending up with an office, a strategy and reports, rather than the speed of the growth

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Correct answer: B

The recording says: “two hours a month from one person changes nothing. Two hours a month from four hundred people cleared a river. I'd rather have the four hundred.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• A: she says the opposite about the individual, that one person's two hours changes nothing
• C: she has stopped arguing, but she replaces the argument with a question rather than dropping the subject

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Correct answer: A

The recording says: “So ordinary in a town that nobody can remember when it started.”

Why the other options are wrong:

• B: the app is what she says everybody expects her to name, and she hands it to somebody else entirely
• C: she says the day she is not needed is the day it has worked

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