This task can be completed by pencil and paper or online (with auto-marking).

In order to follow the same procedure as the resource trial and ensure the reliability of the difficulty estimates, we suggest you follow these instructions.

• Hand out the student sheets which should be turned upside down until you have finished reading the passage.
• Say: "This is a test of your listening skills. I will read the passage and then you will answer questions about it. Listen carefully."
• Read the introduction and the passage. (Please note the suggested reading time of the text is 1 minute and 25 seconds.)
• Say: "Now turn over your sheet. Listen to each question and its possible answers. Circle the best answer. Circle only one answer per question. If you wish to change your answer, cross out your first answer and circle your new answer."
• Read out each question and set of options with an approximately 10 second gap between each question.
• Except in the case of a significant interruption, read each part of the passage and each question and its options only once.

In this report, Eleni, a Greek girl, talks about how her family washes their rugs.

Spring comes suddenly to Greece. One day, everyone is sleeping under thick covers and walking on woollen rugs; the next, it's too hot for anything but sheets on the bed and cool tiles on the floor. Each spring, when the hot weather arrives, my mama and I load our family's rugs onto the truck and drive to the village stream to wash them. This morning, we're lucky – we have the water to ourselves, but someone from the village has been before us and cleared the green weed from the washing hole. We toss the rugs into the stream, and I tread on them with my boots until they are wet through. Then we drag out one of the rugs and lay it across a wide rock. I sprinkle some of the washing powder onto the rug, while Ma rubs it in. Then the fun begins! With her heavy rapeno (wooden paddle), Ma beats the rug over and over to loosen any dirt. It's heavy work, and we are wet and soapy and laughing by the time she has finished. After we have rinsed out the soap, we roll the rug up and carry it to the water's edge to drain. By now, it is midday. The stones on the beach are very hot and just right to dry our rugs when we spread them out in the sun. Later in the day, we'll return to collect them. We will air them on the deck of our house, then store them away in the big wooden rug chest – until one day, without any warning, autumn returns to Greece.