A1 Movers study guide
A1 Movers · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
A1 Movers is the second of three Cambridge English Qualifications for young learners and is set at CEFR level A1. It is designed for children who have made their first steps in English and are ready to show what they can do with everyday written and spoken English. The qualification is paper-based and made up of three papers, including a face-to-face Speaking test, and the whole test takes approximately one hour. Tasks are built around familiar topics and enjoyable activities such as colouring, finding differences and matching, and the language is set in realistic everyday situations. Topics on this exam: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing. The A1 Movers study guide has 4 sections and about 1,362 words.
01Listening: hearing the answer through the distractors
A1 Movers Listening lasts about 25 minutes and has five short parts, and each recording is played twice. In one part you draw lines between named people and places in a picture; in another you write a word or a number such as a name, a day, a time or a price. Other parts ask you to match labelled pictures to things people say, tick one of three pictures, or colour objects in a scene and write a single word. Every part contains five questions and every part contains wrong options.
361 words, about 2 min02Speaking: describing, telling and explaining
In the first part you compare two pictures and find the differences. In the second you tell a short story from a strip of pictures. In the third you look at four pictures and say which one is different and why. In the fourth the examiner asks you simple questions about your school, family, home and free time.
346 words, about 2 min03Reading: matching, checking and choosing
The Reading and Writing paper mixes several short reading tasks. You match words to simple definitions, sometimes with pictures. You read sentences about a picture and decide whether each one is true or false. You read a short dialogue and choose the best reply from three options.
341 words, about 2 min04Writing: short answers that are accurate
Writing is spread through the papers rather than being one long task. In the Reading and Writing paper you write single words into gaps, finish sentences about a story, and complete short answers about a note or letter. In Listening you write names, numbers and one word in the colouring part. All of it must be clear and correctly spelled.
314 words, about 2 min