ILEC Listening Part 3
Task Description
What sort of text do candidates listen to?
They hear a monologue which lasts approximately four minutes. It is generally an informational text which contains a fair amount of fact and detailed information.
What do the candidates have to do?
They have to complete sentences which record the main pieces of information from the listening text. Questions can generally be answered by a word or short phrase of up to three connected words, such as a noun group. The exact words needed for the answers will be heard on the CD, but not in the same sentences as those printed on the page. There are 9 questions and the recording is heard twice.
What listening skills are being tested?
Candidates need to be able to identify the main points in the listening text and then locate, retrieve and record specific items of information from it.
What text types are used?
Text types are usually announcements, speeches, talks, lectures, etc. in a finance-related context, e.g. extended contributions to meetings, as well as extracts from presentations, conference talks, training events, etc.
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 3 task. Complete the task, thinking about how you are doing it.
Sample Part 3 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 text?
- How did you use the task to help you with the answers?
- How did you decide what to write in the answer boxes?
- What did you do if you couldn't answer a question?
- What did you do after the first listening?
- What did you do during the second listening?