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30 Sample Test Items (Pronunciation)

The document describes different types of listening identification tests: 1. Test-takers listen to tag questions and identify the speaker's intention based on intonation pattern (confirm or ask). 2. Test-takers listen to pairs of words and indicate if they have the same or different pronunciation. 3. Test-takers listen to three words, two the same and one different, and identify the different word. 4. Test-takers listen to a sentence and select the word they hear from a set of options. 5. Test-takers are given word cards and identify the card for the word pronounced by the tester.

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30 Sample Test Items (Pronunciation)

The document describes different types of listening identification tests: 1. Test-takers listen to tag questions and identify the speaker's intention based on intonation pattern (confirm or ask). 2. Test-takers listen to pairs of words and indicate if they have the same or different pronunciation. 3. Test-takers listen to three words, two the same and one different, and identify the different word. 4. Test-takers listen to a sentence and select the word they hear from a set of options. 5. Test-takers are given word cards and identify the card for the word pronounced by the tester.

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30 sample items

Limited response
- Test-takers listen and identify the speaker’s intention according to his intonation
pattern.

Example:

Listen to the following tag questions and circle the speaker’s intention according to
his/her intonation pattern.

Test-takers will listen: Test-takers’ answer sheet:


1. You work here? Confirm / Ask
2. You work here. Confirm / Ask
3. She is a teacher. Confirm / Ask
4. She is a teacher? Confirm / Ask
5. It’s raining. Confirm / Ask
6. It’s raining? Confirm / Ask
7. She didn’t come. Confirm / Ask
8. She didn’t come? Confirm / Ask

- The test-takers listen to a pair of words and indicate whether they are the same or
different pronunciation.

Example:

Test-takers should listen: Test-takers’ answer sheet:


1. But – Bought 1. Same / Different
2. Seat –Sit 2. Same / Different
3. Sold – Sold 3. Same / Different
4. Suck – Sock 4. Same / Different
5. Mouse – Mouth 5. Same / Different
6. Pen – Pan 6. Same / Different
7. Beaten – Bitten 7. Same / Different
8. High – High 8. Same / Different
9. Shell – Sell 9. Same / Different

Multiple choice hearing identification


- The test-takers will listen two same words and one different word. The test-taker
should choose one different words.

Example:

Test-takers will listen: Test-takers should answer:


1. a. Bit, b. Bid, c. Bit b
2. a. Port, b. Pot, c. Pot a
3. a. cat, b. cab, c. cat b
4. a. read, b. read, c. rid c
5. a.rich, b. reach, c. reach a
6. a. boil, b. boy, c. boil b
7. a. race, b. race, c. raise c
8. a. hight, b. hi, c. hi a
9. a. low, b. loud, c. loud a
10. a. bad, b. bed, c. bad b

- Test-takers listen to a sentence and select from a set of words the one they hear.

Example:
1. Did you see the _______you were looking for?
a. people b. pupil c. purple
2. He died at the age of ________.
a. forty b. fourteen c. four
- Test-takers receive a set of card with words. The tester pronounces a certain word
and the test taker should show the card which contains word pronounced.
Example:
Shell, Sell, She, Sea
The tester will pronounce “she” and the test-takers should show the card
containing the word “she”

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