Listening Activities List

Target Audience: Students    Teachers

Name of Activity

Relevance to icfe Listening

Focus of Activity
Overview ActivityStudent key Teacher key

Whole paper

 To gain a comprehensive understanding of what the Test of Listening involves
DOs and DON'Ts Activity Student key Teacher key

Whole paper

To raise awareness of DOs and DON'Ts

What comes next Whole paper To raise students’ awareness of expressions that tell us what will follow in a spoken text
Why is it right? Parts 1 and 2 (Multiple-choice) To help students to distinguish relevant and irrelevant words and information
Note taking Whole paper To help students focus on the main points of a text and to practise taking appropriate and useful notes
Focus on predicting Part 3 To develop students’ ability to predict possible answers in sentence-completion activities
Where’s the answer? Part 3 To help students to distinguish relevant and irrelevant words and information
Listen for gist Whole Paper To develop students’ skills in listening for gist