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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors and publisher would like to express their gratitude to Stephen Slater
their editor and
to Frank Packenham for page layout, typesetting, visuals and editing assistance.
Thanks to: all
teachers and students at CALUSA who helped to trial the test practice materials,
in particular
Steve Cook, Joan Tobella and Barbara Reichert;
to the students of ELP,
Universitas Islam Indonesia
for their assistance with trialling materials; the following people for their
assistance with the
recording of Listening and Speaking Test material—Pehr Abrahamsson, Kirill
Pogorelov, Maria
Mahamood, Rachael Kirkham, Rosemary Pimlott, Peter Forward, Alison Banks,
Mandy Rego,
Graham Ross, Neil Low, Peter Cowling and Shane McCarthy. Finally, thanks to
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Themes - Reading Tests
Title
Theme
Test l
1
Finding the lost freedom
Reducing city traffic
2
Rising seas
The warming of the Earth's oceai
3
New rules for the paper game
Pollution-free paper making
Test 2
1
How to raise a bright child
Theories of childhood education
2
The value of driver training
Do driver training programs wor
3
Human
powered pumps for
Primary technology in Africa
African farmers
Test 3
1
Traditional Vietnamese medical
Natural food as medicine
theory
2
3
The new supersonic boom
Building the new Concorde
Co-housing
Sharing domestic living space
Test 4
1
That Monday morning feeling
Monday morning is
a health risk
2
Domestic division of labour
How husbands and wives share
household tasks
3
The Great Barrier Reef
A fragile ecology at risk
Test 5
Wrap up your visit with the
Gift giving in various countries
perfect gift
2
Earthquakes
Causes and effects of
3
Why we can't afford to let Asia
A new look at food production
starve
and distribution
Test 6
1
Intellectual disability
Social responses to intellectual
disability
2
Fuel cells: 21st century electricity
Efficient
energy use in the
3
The new Ice Age
Living in the Antarctic
Test 7
1
Tools for tomorrow's
Telecommunications
communications
2
Characteristics of open and
Studying without going to schoo
distance learning
3
Associations provide therapy for
The benefits of belonging to
society
groups
Test 8
1
Sustainable production
Recycling
2
Searching the skies
Looking for extra-terrestrial life
3
The problems of mature job
Age discrimination in the job
hunters
market
Test 9
1
A different taste of things to come
Food preferences
2 ,
Fire tests
Discovering how fires start
3 • Some misconceptions about
Examining new findings about
Aboriginal Australia
Aboriginal history
Themes - Writing Tests
Title
Theme
Test 1
1
Causes of injury
Types of injury among different age
groups
2
Vegetarianism
A meatless diet for godd health
Test 2
1
Population growth
Comparison between cities over a
25 year period.
2
Training for safe driving The best way to reduce traffic accidents
Test 3
1
A waste disposal unit
Description of the unjft and how it
works
2
Forests: the lungs of the Impact of
the destruction of forests
earth
life forms
Test 4
1
Leisure at home
How people spend their free time
at home
2
Safety standards for
Government role in enforcing safety
building construction
standards
Test 5
1
Work time to buy
Changing amount of work needed.
to purchase consumer items
2
Children learn best by
How children learn
observing adults
Test 6
1
Spending on civilian
Comparison of spending between
applications
world wide countries
2
Zoos
The value of keeping animals in zoos
Test 7
1
One person households
The rise in one person households
during a 10 year period
2
Compulsory education
Education is vital for the future
Test 8
1
Women today
The status of women around the
world
2
Tourism
Tourism as an important source of
national revenue
Test 9
1
Sports injuries
Emergency treatment for unjuries
from different sports
2
Water
Sufficient clean water for the future