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Matti Lamprhey
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| Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:34 am
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"Adrian Bailey" <dadge@hotmail.com> wrote...
63/70.
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Ross Howard
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| Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:34 am
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On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 19:52:31 GMT, "Adrian Bailey" <dadge@hotmail.com>
wrought:
58/70 (with no speakers connected for the listening-comprehension
questions, so I had to guess.)
Generally a bit dodgy, I thought -- "i before e"? Oh, come on!
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Django Cat
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| Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:46 pm
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Adrian Bailey wrote:
60. Definately a bit iffy, as folk have said. Septic Tanks and others
should be warned it's very culturally specific too.
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Odysseus
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| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:30 am
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Adrian Bailey wrote:
*English* test? All of the questions are about recent history,
current affairs, and popular culture, and aren't confined to England either.
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Matti Lamprhey
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| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 2:21 am
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"Odysseus" <odysseus1479-at@yahoo-dot.ca> wrote...
| Quote: | Adrian Bailey wrote:
The BBC's national English test starts in 15 minutes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/testthenation/
*English* test? All of the questions are about recent history,
current affairs, and popular culture, and aren't confined to England
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?? There were plenty of on-topic questions, on grammar, punctuation,
spelling, idiom. The bits I objected to were what they called
"comprehension", which entailed remembering inconsequential fragments
from a spiel given by someone who was trying to impersonate someone else
with benefit of badly-timed canned laughter; and to so-called
collective nouns like a mischief of mice and a crash of hippopotamuses.
I think their policy was to ensure they included at least one section
which everyone could reasonably find objectionable; in this they
succeeded.
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:26 am
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Matti Lamprhey wrote:
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| Quote: | I think their policy was to ensure they included at least one
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which everyone could reasonably find objectionable; in this they
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I tried the online version, and had to abandon it, because it stuck
at question 44.
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Philip Eden
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"Matti Lamprhey" <matti@official-totally-reversed.com> wrote in message
news:3qqsc2Fg95qkU1@individual.net...
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Pat Durkin
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| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:01 am
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"Adrian Bailey" <dadge@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Odysseus
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:24 pm
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Matti Lamprhey wrote:
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"Odysseus" <odysseus1479-at@yahoo-dot.ca> wrote...
Adrian Bailey wrote:
The BBC's national English test starts in 15 minutes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/testthenation/
*English* test? All of the questions are about recent history,
current affairs, and popular culture, and aren't confined to England
either.
?? There were plenty of on-topic questions, on grammar, punctuation,
spelling, idiom.
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Not in the test I took, unless you count the question about the
origin of "Iron Curtain" and perhaps a couple more of that kind.
Maybe the text-only version is different from the multimedia one; my
browser wasn't up to the latter.
| Quote: | The bits I objected to were what they called
"comprehension", which entailed remembering inconsequential fragments
from a spiel given by someone who was trying to impersonate someone else
with benefit of badly-timed canned laughter; and to so-called
collective nouns like a mischief of mice and a crash of hippopotamuses.
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Definitely not the same one.
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Mark Browne
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:06 pm
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On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, In message
<3sV1f.10043$tS4.1085@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, Adrian Bailey
<dadge@hotmail.com> writes
64/70, but I had the family with me. I think that I would have had
60/70 without them.
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Mark Browne
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