CONTENTS

4 Holiday
Festival of Fear: Who Invented Halloween?

6 Psychology
Toxic: When Friendships Go Wrong

8 Comic
Dracula, Episode 2, P1

10 US Politics
The Road to the White House

12 English-Speaking Countries
My Scotland

14 Music
Listen Up! Popular Albums of 2024

16 Health
The Fantastic Fluid

18 News
NewsBites: October Edition

19 Grammar
Grammar Geek:
Present Simple or Present Perfect?

20 Beliefs
Superstitions Around the World

22 Other English-Speaking Countries
The African Giant

24 Puzzle Zone
Code Word Picture Puzzle

26 Vocabulary
Learning English and Other Languages 101

28 Test
B1 Preliminary for Schools

Extras

B1 PRELIMINARY FOR SCHOOLS

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Materials for the B1 Preliminary for Schools Reading and Writing Tests were published in October 2024 GATE (pages 28–35). The Listening and Speaking Tests will be published in January-February 2025 GATE.

 

Here are the Sample Answer Sheets and Sample Writing Answers.