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Part 4 · Exercise 1 — Living abroad

C1 Advanced · Listening

10 questions · 11 minutes

Part 4 · Multiple matching (two tasks)

For questions 1–10, you will hear five people talking about moving to live in another country. Look at Task One and Task Two. As you listen you must complete both tasks: for each speaker, choose one answer from Task One and one from Task Two. There are three extra options in each task which you do not need to use.

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Everything is played twice within the recording, exactly like the real exam — press play once and follow the narrator.

Task One — For questions 1–5, choose from the list (A–H) what mainly prompted each speaker to move abroad.

  • A A relationship with someone from that country.
  • B A job offer they could not refuse.
  • C A wish to escape a personal setback.
  • D A long-standing fascination with the culture.
  • E A desire to raise their children differently.
  • F A pure sense of adventure.
  • G The high cost of living back home.
  • H Following a family member who had gone before.
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Speaker 1

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Speaker 2

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Speaker 3

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Speaker 4

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Speaker 5

Task Two — For questions 6–10, choose from the list (A–H) what each speaker has found the hardest part of living there.

  • A Coping with the official paperwork.
  • B Mastering the local language.
  • C Forming genuine friendships.
  • D Being far from ageing parents.
  • E Getting used to the climate.
  • F The absence of familiar food.
  • G Always feeling like an outsider.
  • H Adjusting to a slower pace of life.
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Speaker 1

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Speaker 2

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Speaker 3

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Speaker 4

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Speaker 5

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