A2 Flyers key terms

An instruction in a listening task that tells you to hear a recording and then add lines or pictures to a scene. Listen for the information before you start drawing.

An instruction asking you to hear a recording and then write a word, name or number in a space. The information is usually said twice, so listen carefully.

An instruction telling you to hear a recording and then put a small mark in a box next to the correct picture or answer.

The first answer in a task which is already done for you, so you can see how to do the rest. Examples are not counted in your score.

To say or write the letters of a word in the correct order, for example A-N-N-A. In listening tasks you often hear a name spelled letter by letter.

The family name that a person shares with their parents and brothers and sisters. It comes after the first name on a form.

The details of where someone lives or where a building is, usually including a number, a street and a town.

A list that shows the times when trains, buses or planes leave and arrive, or when lessons happen at school.

The flat area beside the railway line where people stand and wait before they get on a train.

A person who is travelling in a bus, train, plane, boat or car but is not driving it.

The bags and cases that you take with you when you travel. You carry it, or you leave it in a hotel room.

A journey made by plane through the air from one place to another.

A piece of writing that tells about people and events, either real or imagined, and usually has a beginning, a middle and an end.

A group of words that makes a complete idea. It starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, a question mark or an exclamation mark.

An empty space in a text or sentence where a word is missing and you have to write or choose the correct word.

A box of words printed above a task. You choose words from it to fill gaps or match to sentences, and some words are not needed.

To draw a line through a word or picture to show that it is wrong or not needed.

To join two things that go together, for example a word and its picture, by drawing a line between them.

To write the missing words so that a sentence or text is whole and correct.

The name of a book, story or text, usually written at the top of it or on the cover.

A written message that you send to someone, often by post. It usually starts with 'Dear ...' and ends with your name.

A message that you send to someone using a computer or phone and that arrives almost immediately.

A book with a page for each day where you write what you did or what you are going to do.

A written or spoken request asking someone to come to a party, a meal or another event.

A short piece of information that you write or say to someone who is not with you.

An instruction telling you to read three possible answers and pick the one that fits the sentence or gap best.

A speaking task where you and the examiner look at two pictures that are almost the same and say how they are not the same.

A speaking task where you look at a series of pictures and say what is happening, using time words like 'first' and 'then'.

To say what someone or something is like, using words about size, colour, clothes, position or what is happening.

A drawing or photo that shows people, places or things. In the speaking test you look at pictures and talk about them with the examiner.

In the centre of a picture or place, with things on two sides or all around.

On the side of a picture or place that is towards your left hand when you look at it.

Very close to something, beside it, with little or nothing in between.

In the space that separates two things, with one thing on each side.

At the back of something, further away from the person who is looking at it.

Words used to say that something exists or is in a place, for example 'There is a cat on the bed.'

A phrase used to talk about what is in a picture, for example 'I can see two boys playing football.'