ILEC Listening Part 2
Task Description
What sort of text do the candidates listen to?
They listen to a conversation between two or more speakers, which is approximately four minutes long.
What do candidates have to do?
They have to answer multiple-choice questions based on the text. Candidates have to choose the appropriate answer (A, B or C) from the three options provided and write them onto the answer sheet. There are 5 questions. They hear the text twice.
What text types are used?
The text will be either an interview or a discussion in a finance-related context.
What listening skills are being tested?
Candidates will be tested on their understanding of specific information, gist and attitude. The attitudes and opinions of the speakers may be either stated or implied. Candidates need to follow the line of development in these texts and recognize when the conversation has moved on from one particular aspect of the topic to another, as this will form the focus of the next question. Interviewer’s questions or other discourse markers will help candidates to locate questions in the text.
Understanding the Task
To understand better how students need to approach this task, it may help you to do the activity yourself and analyse what you had to do to choose the right answer. Look at this sample Part 2 task. Complete the task, thinking about how you are doing it.
Sample Part 2 Task (PDF)
Answers
Recording
Tapescript
Things to consider
Look at these questions about how you did this task and consider your answers.
- What did you do in the pause before listening to the recording?
- How did you use the task to help you with the answers?
- What was the focus of the questions?
- How did you decide which option to choose?
- What did you do after the first listening?
- What did you do during the second listening?