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Description A group discussion task to give students an overview of the Listening paper based around a matching task.
2030 minutes Copies of the overview text. Alternatively, you could record yourself or a colleague reading the overview text to play in class.
Procedure 1. It might be a good idea to record yourself reading the script below. This will give your students some listening practice. If you are unable to record the script, you can read it out in class. Tell your students that you are going to be looking at the FCE Listening paper. Ask students what they know about the exam, but dont confirm or tell them too much about the exam at this stage. Put your students in pairs/small groups and give them a copy of the activity worksheet. Students work together to match the questions to the answers. To check the answers, read/play the script at a natural, reasonable speed. Students listen and check their answers. This is intended to give the students some listening exam practice. Once you have read the text, give your class 12 minutes to discuss the answers. Then read the text again at the same speed. Students use the second listening to doublecheck their answers. Deal with any queries.
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Suggested follow-up questions (and answers) You could give out an actual sample listening paper and get students to check the answers to the quiz below with the relevant parts of the test. You could extend the task further by asking what type of task each one is. You could also look at an example answer sheet. See pages 5658 and 6567 of the FCE handbook for sample papers.
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How many parts are there in the Listening test? How many questions are there? How many questions does each part have? How many times do you hear the texts? How long is the Listening test? Where do candidates write their final answers? Where do candidates write their answers while theyre listening? When should candidates write their answers on the answer sheet? How do candidates show their answers? How many marks is each question worth? What is the total number of marks awarded? Who marks the listening paper?
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one twice on the question paper Parts 1, 3 and 4 are computer-marked; Part 2 is marked by trained markers. 40 marks; 20% of the total FCE exam 4 during the 5 minutes transfer time allowed at the end of the test on a separate answer sheet approximately 40 minutes 30 Part 1: 8; Part 2: 10; Part 3: 5; Part 4: 7 they shade the lozenge or write their answer out for Part 2
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