Contents

4 Vocabulary
Places in Town   

6 Your Story
Where’s the Party?        

8 Grammar
Grammar Zone      

10 Story with Pictures
The Lion and the Mouse         

12 Comic
Jack’s New Year

14 Traditions
It’s Carnival 

16 Speaking
Speaking Fun

17 Colouring
Let’s Colour

18 Board Game
The Spelling Slalom

20 Tradition  
The Chinese Zodiac

22 Geography
A Postcard from Kingston   

24 Tests
YLE Starters Practice Test   

31 Puzzles
Valentine’s Day      

32 Puzzles
Dog Man   

33 Puzzles
Paddington in Peru

34 Look and Talk  
In the Street

Extras

CAMBRIDGE OFFICIAL PRACTICE TEST

Pre A1 STARTERS

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Materials for the Pre A1 Starters Listening (Parts 1–4) were published in the January-February 2025 PLAY (pages 25–30). The audio is available online only, here on the right (W Tracks B-E).

Here are the answers and the audio script.

The Reading & Writing (Parts 1–5) and Speaking Tests will be published in the May-June 2025 PLAY.