English Language Placement Test - 2024.

YOUR PROFILE (Please use legible handwriting)

Name/Last name _________________________ Job occupation _________________________
Nationality _________________________ Study _________________________
E-mail _________________________ Telephone _________________________
Date of birth (dd/mm/yyyy) _________________________

How often do you use English in your daily life? Tick (✓ ) the best option.

☐ Always (100%) ☐ Usually (90%) ☐ Normally (80%)

☐ Often (70%) ☐ Sometimes (50%) ☐ Occasionally (30%)

☐ Seldom (10%) ☐ Hardly ever (5%) ☐ Never (0%)

Tick (✓ ) the best option. Considering your daily life, improving your English is:

☐ Extremely important ☐ Very important ☐ Important ☐ Not important

Number the skills 1, 2, 3, 4, in order of importance, according to your opinion:

Reading Listening Speaking Writing

Circle your priority (please choose just one):

Grammar Vocabulary Writing Listening Reading Speaking

YOU AND LANGUAGES

Mother tongue: _________________________________________________________
Foreign language(s) spoken: _______________________________________________
Circle your skills in the foreign language (s) you know:
I speak little good excellent
I understand little good excellent
I read little good excellent
I write little good excellent

YOU AND ENGLISH

Where did you learn English? (Name of the school) _____________________________
For how long? (Months/Semesters/Years) ____________________________________
What book did you use? (Name of the material) ________________________________
 PLACEMENT TEST: Elementary – Intermediate (Levels 2-6)
VOCABULARY

1 Tick (✓) A, B, or C to complete the sentences.

Example: He drove the car into the _____.
A) kitchen ☐ B) bathroom ☐ C) garage ✓

1. The number 100 in full is _____.

A) one thousand ☐ B) one hundred ☐ C) one million ☐

2. My uncle’s wife is my _____.

A) cousin ☐ B) aunt ☐ C) niece ☐

3. My friend is a _____. He works in a restaurant.

A) journalist ☐ B) nurse ☐ C) waiter ☐

4. In Spain, it’s usually hot in _____.

A) winter ☐ B) autumn ☐ C) summer ☐

5. The month after June is _____.

A) July ☐ B) May ☐ C) April ☐

6. The opposite of safe is _____.

A) dangerous ☐ B) expensive ☐ C) boring ☐

7. We’ve got a very good shower in the _____.

A) kitchen ☐ B) bathroom ☐ C) living room ☐

8. The day after Tuesday is _____.

A) Wednesday ☐ B) Thursday ☐ C) Friday ☐

9. Tony’s so ________. He pays for everything when we go out.

A) lazy ☐ B) mean ☐ C) generous ☐

10. I have ________ and blue eyes.

A) long straight hair ☐ B) straight long hair ☐ C) hair straight long ☐

11. It’s ________ to run when the floor is wet.

A) safe ☐ B) dangerous ☐ C) clean ☐

12. I look ________ my mother. We have the same eyes and nose.
A) as ☐ B) to ☐ C) like ☐
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GRAMMAR

1 Circle the correct sentence: A, B, or C. (level 2)

Example: A) She American. B) She are American. C) She’s American.
1 A) We is Spanish. B) We are Spanish. C) We be Spanish.
2 A) What your name? B) What are your name? C) What’s your name?
3 A) She not a student. B) She isn’t a student. C) She aren’t a student.
4 A) Are they married? B) They are married? C) Is they married?
5 A) That my pen. B) That’s my pen. C) That be my pen.
6 A) They not are teachers. B) They not teachers. C) They aren’t teachers.
7 A) Am I in Room 7? B) I am in Room 7? C) Are I in Room 7?
8 A) He be from China. B) He from China. C) He’s from China.
9 A) He don’t live in London. B) He isn’t live in London. C) He doesn’t live in London
10 A) Do John like pizza? B) Does John like pizza? C) Is John like pizza?

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2 Tick (✓) the correct answer: A, B, or C. (Level 3)
Example: ‘Are you Italian?’ ‘Yes, _____ am.’ – A) I ✓ B) you C) we
1. ‘Is that car German?’ ‘Yes, _____ is.’
A) he ☐ B) it ☐ C) she ☐
2. ‘Is your brother tall?’ ‘No, _____ isn’t.’
A) he ☐ B) it ☐ C) they ☐
3. ‘Are you Nick and Julia?’ ‘Yes, _____ are.’
A) they ☐ B) you ☐ C) we ☐
4. ‘Are Yuko and Paolo in your class?’ ‘No, _____ aren’t.’
A) they ☐ B) we ☐ C) you ☐
5. They live in Oxford. _____ address is 34, Charles Street.
A) Their ☐ B) His ☐ C) Her ☐
6. ‘What’s _____ name?’ ‘I’m Molly.’
A) your ☐ B) his ☐ C) my ☐
7. Maria is American. _____ surname’s Kelly.
A) His ☐ B) Our ☐ C) Her ☐
8. What _____ next weekend?
A) are you going ☐ B) are you going to do ☐ C) do you do ☐
9. My mum doesn’t like _____ tennis.
A) play ☐ B) to playing ☐ C) playing ☐
10. They _____ to the radio at the moment.
A) ’re listening ☐ B) listened ☐ C) listen ☐
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 3 Tick (✓) the correct answer A, B, or C. (Level 4)
1. I’m five years older _____ my sister.
A) that ☐ B) than ☐ C) more ☐
2. I _____ at the moment because I’m on holiday.
A) ’m not working ☐ B) don’t work ☐ C) not work ☐
3. I always _____ a shower before breakfast.
A) am having ☐ B) have ☐ C) has ☐
4. They _____ early at weekends.
A) haven’t got up ☐ B) aren’t getting up ☐ C) don’t get up ☐
5. I often go swimming _____ the weekend.
A) in ☐ B) for ☐ C) at ☐
6. How _____ bread do you eat?
A) lot ☐ B) much ☐ C) many ☐
7. _____ your brother speak Spanish?
A) Does ☐ B) Has ☐ C) Is ☐
8. We _____ to the cinema last night.
A) going ☐ B) go ☐ C) went ☐
9. She _____ to work yesterday because she was ill.
A) doesn’t go ☐ B) didn’t going ☐ C) didn’t go ☐
10. This is _____ book I’ve ever read.
A) the best ☐ B) the most best ☐ C) the better ☐
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4 Tick (✓) the correct answer A, B, or C. (Levels 5-6)
1. Hello! Come in. I’ve ________ made some coffee. Would you like some?
A) just ☐ B) already ☐ C) yet ☐
2. ‘Have you finished that report?’ ‘No, not ________.’
A) just ☐ B) already ☐ C) yet ☐
3. ‘________ you been to the museum before?’ ‘No, this is the first time.’
A) Had ☐ B) Has ☐ C) Have ☐
4. She couldn’t remember where she ________ her car.
A) was parking ☐ B) had parked ☐ C) has parked ☐
5. I put ________ sugar in my coffee.
A) a little ☐ B) too many ☐ C) a few ☐
6. We ________ work tomorrow.
A) haven’t to ☐ B) don’t have to ☐ C) must to ☐
7. ‘I don’t want to go the party.’ ‘________ do I.’
A) So ☐ B) Neither ☐ C) Either ☐
8. Let’s order a pizza. We don’t have ________ to cook for dinner.
A) nothing ☐ B) anything ☐ C) something ☐
9. I don’t have ________ money left, because I bought a new jacket.
A) much ☐ B) many ☐ C) lots ☐
10. We’ve lived in the same house ________ 20 years.
A) for ☐ B) since ☐ C) ago ☐

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 READING

My Experience of Learning a New Language

Learning a new language, or any new thing, is always challenging for human
beings. It’s not an easy task to achieve a second language like the mother language but
overcoming our fear and inertia and coming out of our comfort zone can make it easy to
acquire not only the language but also the structural way to use it and the accent of local
people starts to seem more comprehensible that serves as a means of expediently
connecting with the local people fostering new friendships and an exchange of ideas that
wouldn’t have occurred before its inception.
As an example, it was tough to learn English in a country where English isn’t
commonly spoken. I have gone through a hard time learning English as a second language
at the very beginning but after practising hard and observing people how to talk, I am
doing better day by day, getting used to the accent and it is getting natural and more
natural to me and I came out with that it is hard to dominate but not impossible to achieve
a new language.
I got afraid when I was going to join Thompson Rivers University here in Canada,
which was far away from my country with totally a new culture and new people. I became
nervous because I had no experience of getting adjusted to a whole new place, language
and culture. This became a big concern for me to talk in English fluently to keep my
confidence in the exact point while communicating with everyone here.
After landing in Canada, I started facing lots of problems here that I knew I would
face from the very beginning but something I didn’t know was how to fix it or how to
adjust in here. I was in a fix on what to do. I wasn’t able to communicate with people so
easily because the accent here in Canada wasn’t familiar to me. As Canada’s first
language is English, they have a natural way of accent which sounds like a bird singing a
nice song. They use different intonation and stress. On the other hand, people from
Bangladesh use a different accent, intonation, and stress. That is why I had an inaction
talking with people around me and also because my vocabulary level wasn’t so high.
Moreover, I was afraid of making mistakes because that was breaking my desire to try on
more time.
When I first came to TRU, I met up with national and international students, and
talked to them about our Bengali culture, like how our interactions happen, the way our
communicate, our rituals and the overall tradition we are keeping.
I also gathered information about their culture and traditions. I started observing
people, how they talk, their expression, intonation, stress, vocabulary, how they use
phrases in their conversation. I started to talk in English with my friends. Those long
conversations were growing up my confidence level.
 Though I was making a lot of mistakes while talking, I did not give up for a single
second. I kept practising more and more to get adjusted and comfortable with the new
language, culture, tradition and everything I needed to be adjusted to slowly day by day.
Especially the professors and instructors here at TRU guided me a lot to be fluent in
English. As they said I kept practising new vocabulary every day and doing better, getting
comfortable talking day by day.
Overall, from all this, I have learned a vital lesson and that is nothing is impossible
to achieve. All you need to do to achieve a goal is hard work, practice and not feeling shy
when you’re making a mistake. I am learning a lot by making lots of mistakes. Now
mistakes don’t bother me anyway.
This was a great experience for me which made me learn a lot. Getting adjusted to a new
language and culture was a challenge for me and I think I have managed to learn
efficiently, although there were ups and downs in the whole process.

My Experience of Learning a New Language. (2019, April 10).

GradesFixer. January 23, 2024.
Available on https://gradesfixer.com/free-essay-examples/learning-a-new-language/

Questions 1 – 10. Are the sentences true or false? Tick (✓) the correct answer.
True False
1. Learning a new language is always challenging for human beings. ☐ ☐

2. Overcoming fear and inertia can make it easy to acquire a second language. ☐ ☐
3. The accents of local people can become more comprehensible through
☐ ☐
language learning.
4. It is impossible to achieve fluency in a second language. ☐ ☐

5. Learning English in a non-English-speaking country can be difficult. ☐ ☐

6. Observing how people talk can improve language skills. ☐ ☐

7. The accent in Canada is familiar to people from Bangladesh. ☐ ☐

8. Talking with friends can increase confidence in speaking a new language. ☐ ☐

9. Professors and instructors at TRU played a role in improving fluency in
☐ ☐
English.
10. Making mistakes is a barrier to achieving language learning goals. ☐ ☐

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 PARA USO DO PROFESSOR:

1. Nome d@ alun@: _________________________________________________

2. Fez avaliação oral? SIM ☐ NÃO ☐
3. Fez avaliação escrita? SIM ☐ NÃO ☐

O aluno está apto a fazer o nível: 1 ☐ 2☐ 3☐ 4☐ 5☐ 6☐

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