Upper-Intermediate
Grammar

Check Your English Level: Travel and Trips

Published: October 26 2026

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1 There any restaurants near the hotel.

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1 London is the River Thames.

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1 I travel very often.

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1 I'd like two to Berlin.

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1 I was walking to the station when I John.

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1 I haven't packed my suitcase

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1 A bicycle is often than a car in towns.

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1 You'd better hurry—you don't want to the bus.

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1 The hotel was full, so I was glad that in advance.

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1 She'll miss the bus if she soon.

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1 He more if he was younger.

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1 I'll early to avoid the traffic.

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1 We lost if my phone hadn't run out of battery.

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1 I wish that the train on time.

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1 How many countries are you going to by the time you turn 50?

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1 I'm suffering from but I'll feel better after a good night's sleep.

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About this test

An informal A1–B2 practice check of three skills on one theme: travel. Each skill has four blocks, from A1 to B2, and every block uses its own real recording or text: Nerry from Belize talks about trains, two BBC presenters talk about visiting places, an Australian editor talks about Sydney's beaches, and two park rangers remember cleaning Mount Rushmore; you also read part of a children's story about a train trip, an English folk tale, a news report about a long bike journey and a Yellowstone National Park exhibit text. Allow 35–40 minutes: the four recordings last 9:54 in total, and the four texts have about 870 words.

Read the Listening questions first and listen to each recording twice, with subtitles off; use English subtitles afterwards for review. Choose one answer per question; for statements, choose True or False. One point per correct answer; a wrong or blank answer scores zero. Total: 40 points. This is a self-check, not a certified CEFR or IELTS result. The folk tale is a 1914 school-reader retelling with some old-fashioned phrases, and the bike report is from January 2016.

Source: ELLLO — One Minute English A1 #19: Do you live near a train station? (Nerry, Belize)

Source: BBC Learning English — Real Easy English: Talking about visiting places, Georgie and Beth

Source: Spotlight — Escape the crowds at Bondi Beach, Richard Mote

Source: StoryCorps — Two Park Rangers Recall Being the First to Clean Mt. Rushmore, Donald Hart and Blaine Kortemeyer

Source: “The Window Seat” by Sindeka Mandoyi, illustrated by Chloe Veldsman, designed by Roulé le Roux, edited by Angela Briggs (Book Dash, 2025). Excerpt of the text, without illustrations. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Source: The Beacon Second Reader — Dick Whittington (English folk tale), retold by James H. Fassett (Ginn and Company, 1914)

Source: VOA Learning English — Bulgarians Bike From Alaska to Argentina, Ashley Thompson (January 2016), excerpt

Source: National Park Service — Boats and Blizzards, Yellowstone travel exhibit, excerpt

Language examples: British Council LearnEnglish, Oxford Learner's Dictionaries, Perfect English Grammar, EnglishPage and Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Gaps and choices were created for this test.