Flyers 9 – Test 1 Reading & Writing
100% Original Practice Test
At Brookfield's small town station, friends visit a model railway club, solve a small ticket mix-up and help make a cardboard station for the club's next display. This A2 reading & writing practice has 7 parts and 50 questions. Complete each part, then submit to grade your work or use Show Answer to review.
Learning guide
Level: A2.
Topic: A Visit to Brookfield Station
Learning objectives
- Identify everyday places, belongings and people from clear definitions.
- Connect replies to questions and follow a short travel story.
- Use context and A2 grammar to complete model-making texts and a club email.
Before you start: A2 everyday vocabulary, basic narrative past forms, simple comparisons, pronouns and common prepositions.
Teacher tip: Compare each answer with the whole sentence, then point to the words or picture detail that support it. Re-read the model-making instructions in order.
Reading & Writing strategy: Read the instructions and example first. Use picture details and nearby words as clues, reread the whole sentence, and check spelling before submitting.
Part 1 · 10 questions
Look and read. Choose the right words and write them on the lines
Choose a word from the box for each description. There is one example. Four words are not needed.
Example: You show this paper or card before you travel by train. → ticket
1. You wait here for a train, beside the tracks.
2. A trip from one place to another is called this.
3. Someone who spends a short time looking around your school, then goes home, is a ___.
4. A short piece of information that you put on a wall for people to read is this.
5. People stand one behind another in this when they wait.
6. A set of special clothes that people wear for work or school is this.
7. The bags and cases that you take with you on a trip are your ___.
8. You go through this place when you enter a building.
9. This is a place where people grow flowers or vegetables outside.
10. You can keep a small coin in this part of your clothes.
Part 2 · 7 questions
Look at the picture. Read the sentences. Write yes or no
Look carefully at the picture. Write yes if the sentence is true and no if it is not true. There are two examples.
Example 1: The boy is wearing a red T-shirt. → Yes
Example 2: The girl is standing and reading a book. → No
11. The boy is standing and holding a yellow suitcase.
12. The girl is reading an open book on the bench.
13. There are three brown bags under the bench.
14. The man in the blue jacket is sitting beside the door.
15. A round clock is above the closed door.
16. The small white cat is awake beside the bench.
17. The weather is sunny.
Part 3 · 5 questions
Read the conversation. Choose the best answer
Choose the best reply for each line. There is one example. Two replies are not needed.
Nina and Owen are classmates visiting a small model railway club in the room beside their town station.
Choose a reply
- It starts at half past two in the afternoon.
- We can ask the club leader at the front desk.
- I came with my older cousin.
- The blue one is mine, and the red one is hers.
- We watched it move around the little town.
- They meet there every Thursday after school.
- I left it in my school bag at home.
- No, the door is closed until lunchtime.
Example: Nina: What time does today's model railway club session start? → It starts at half past two in the afternoon.
18. Nina: Who came to the club with you?
19. Nina: Which little train belongs to your cousin?
20. Nina: What did you watch the model train do?
21. Nina: How often do the members meet?
22. Nina: Where is your notebook? I can help you write down the club's name.
Part 4 · 6 questions
Read the story. Choose a word from the box for each gap
Choose a word from the box for each space. There is one example. Four words are not needed. Then choose the best title for the story.
Ella and Tom are getting ready to build a cardboard station for their model railway.
Ella and Tom brought a small model (example) railway to the club. They wanted to add a station where the little train could stop. First, they cleared a space on the long wooden [23]. Ella chose a piece of thick white [24], the same material used for birthday cards. Tom drew the station shape and marked a door in the middle. They cut along the lines with the [25]. After folding the sides, they spread some [26] along the edges to stick the walls together. Next, they made two square [27] in the walls so the tiny passengers could look outside. When their building was dry, they put it beside the oval track. Their club leader smiled at their careful work.
Example: Ella and Tom brought a small ___ railway to the club. → model
28. Choose the best title for the story.
Part 5 · 7 questions
Read the story and complete the sentences
Complete each sentence with one to four words from the story. There is one example.
The Ticket in the Notebook
On Saturday morning, Leo and his sister Maya were waiting at their town station. They planned to travel to Brookfield, where their uncle would meet them and take them to the town library. Leo had bought his ticket the day before and put it somewhere safe. Before the train arrived, he checked the front pocket of his coat, but it was empty. Maya looked in the side pocket of his small bag and found only a pencil. A member of staff let them wait inside the ticket office while they searched. Leo opened his notebook to check the train time he had written down. A folded piece of paper slipped out from between two pages. It was his train ticket! He remembered putting it there when he wrote the time. Maya smiled, and Leo kept the ticket in his hand until they met their uncle. They caught their train, and their uncle was waiting when they reached Brookfield. The three of them walked to the library together.
Example: Leo and Maya were waiting at their town station on Saturday ___. → morning
29. Leo was waiting at the station with his sister ___.
30. Their uncle planned to take them to the town ___.
31. Leo had bought his ticket the ___ before.
32. Maya looked in the ___ of Leo's small bag.
33. A member of staff let them wait inside the ___.
34. The folded piece of paper slipped out from between two ___.
35. Leo kept the ticket in his ___ until they met their uncle.
Part 6 · 10 questions
Read the text and choose the correct word
Choose the correct word for each space. There is one example.
Our club made (example) a new cardboard station last week. We began [36] drawing a door and two windows on a large piece of card. Our teacher cut the shape for us because [37] was thick. Then we folded the sides [38] so the station could stand on the table. We used a small amount of glue to [39] the walls together. While the glue dried, we planned the colours [40] a sheet of paper. I painted the roof, and my friend [41] the front blue. The windows looked [42] than before when we added a thin white line around them. We waited until the paint [43] dry before moving the model. At the end, we put it beside the [44] buildings on our table. Everyone said our station [45] neat and strong.
Example: Our club ___ a new cardboard station last week. → made
Part 7 · 5 questions
Complete the email
Write one word in each space. There is one example.
Hi Amy,
I went to the model railway club on (example) Saturday. When we arrived, there [46] three models on the table. My cousin explained each step and showed me [47] to make a paper station sign. Each model was different [48] the others. Our next meeting starts [49] four o'clock on Thursday. Would you like [50] come with me next week?
Write soon, Mia
Example: I went to the model railway club ___ Saturday. → on
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Answer reasons
- platform — A platform is the raised place where passengers wait to get on a train.
- journey — A journey is a trip from one place to another.
- visitor — A visitor spends a short time at a place without living or working there.
- notice — A notice gives information to people who read it.
- queue — A queue is a line of people waiting for something.
- uniform — A uniform is a set of clothes worn by a group for work or school.
- luggage — Luggage means the bags and cases a person takes on a journey.
- entrance — An entrance is a place or door where you can go into a building.
- garden — A garden is an outdoor place where people grow plants.
- pocket — A pocket is a small part of clothing used for carrying things.
- Yes — The boy on the left is standing with a yellow suitcase in his hands.
- Yes — The girl sits on the bench and reads an open book.
- No — There are exactly two brown bags under the bench.
- No — The man is standing on the right, holding a folded umbrella.
- Yes — The clock is shown on the wall above the closed door.
- No — The small white cat is asleep beside the bench.
- Yes — The picture shows sunny daylight and no rain.
- I came with my older cousin. — Owen says who came with him.
- The blue one is mine, and the red one is hers. — Owen identifies the red train as his cousin's and the blue train as his own.
- We watched it move around the little town. — Owen describes the train moving around the model town.
- They meet there every Thursday after school. — Owen tells Nina the day and time the members meet.
- I left it in my school bag at home. — Owen explains where he left his notebook, so he cannot write in it now.
- table — The table provides a flat wooden surface for their craft work.
- card — Thick card is the material used for birthday cards and the model walls.
- scissors — Scissors cut the cardboard along the drawn lines.
- glue — Glue joins the cardboard walls when it dries.
- windows — Windows are openings that let the tiny passengers see outside.
- A New Station for the Model Railway — Ella and Tom use card to make a station for the model railway.
- Maya — The first sentence names Leo's sister as Maya.
- library — They planned to visit the town library with their uncle.
- day — The story states he bought the ticket the day before.
- side pocket — Maya searches the side pocket and finds a pencil there.
- ticket office — The member of staff allows them to wait in the ticket office while searching.
- pages — The ticket slips out from between two pages of Leo's notebook.
- hand — The final part says Leo kept the ticket in his hand until the meeting.
- by — Begin by doing something introduces the first action in a process.
- it — It is the subject pronoun referring to the thick card.
- carefully — Carefully is the adverb that describes how the sides were folded.
- hold — Use the base verb hold after to in a phrase explaining purpose.
- on — Ideas or plans can be written on a sheet of paper.
- painted — The passage describes last week's completed work, so painted is the past tense.
- brighter — Than before requires the comparative adjective brighter.
- was — Paint is uncountable and singular here, and the story is in the past, so was is correct.
- other — Other modifies the plural noun buildings; another is singular and others stands alone.
- looked — Looked is the past-tense verb that completes the reported opinion.
- were — The plural noun three models needs were in this past-tense sentence.
- how — Explaining each step tells us how to make the sign: it describes the method.
- from — Different from is the usual pattern. Different to is also used in British English, and different than is used in American English.
- at — Use at before a specific clock time.
- to — Would you like to is followed by the base form of a verb.
Teacher tip
Compare each answer with the whole sentence, then point to the words or picture detail that support it. Re-read the model-making instructions in order.