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A2 Key Listening Part 1: Using visuals – Teacher’s Notes

Description
Students do a lead-in activity in which they listen to a description of a person and identify who it is. The teacher
elicits what they have to do in Part 1 of the Listening paper. Students underline the main words in Part 1
questions. Finally, they complete a Part 1 Listening task as a team activity.

Time required: 15- 20 minutes

Materials  Handout (one copy per student)
required:  Recording of Sample Task
Aims:  to familiarise students with the content and format of Paper 2, Part 1
 to practice a Part 1 task

Procedure
1. As a lead in, explain that you are going to ask three students to stand up and that you are going to
describe one of them. Your description could be something like this. X has long dark curly hair. She
doesn’t wear glasses. She’s tall and slim. Ask the class which students you have described. You could
follow this with descriptions of three different bags, three different books, etc. You could ask some
students to describe one of the objects you have selected. The idea here is to provide a fun activity which
is similar to A2 Key Listening Part 1.
2. Give out a copy of the handout to each student. Elicit what students have to do in Part 1 by asking these
questions:
How many conversations will you hear? (5 + the example)
How many times will you hear each conversation? (Twice)
How many questions are there for each conversation? (One)

How many pictures/visuals are there to choose between in each question? (Three)
How do you write the answer? (Put a tick in box A, B or C for the correct visual on the question paper while
you listen. When you listen for the second time, check your answer. At the end of the test transfer your
answers to the answer sheet.)
3. Read out the question in the example. Play the example and check the answer. Ask: Does the woman
think there were a lot of people at the meeting? (No, she says that’s not many.) Is the man is happy about
the number of people who came to the meeting? (Yes, he says that’s more than last time.)
4. Before you play the recording for questions 1 – 5, ask students to look at the questions and underline the
most important words in each question. This emphasises the importance or reading the questions
carefully.
5. Check which words students have underlined (see key).

6. Explain that students hear each conversation twice, with a short pause before the next conversation is
heard. Tell them that you are now going to play the conversations one by one and check the answers one
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by one. It’s a good idea to do the task in this way the first time so that you can answer any questions that
come up. It will also give students confidence as they understand why the correct answer is correct.
In order to make this activity more dynamic, prepare for the activity by making large copies of the three
visuals for each question in Part 1. You will need them to be big enough for the class to see them on the
board.
Explain that you are going to:
• divide the class into two teams
• put the three pictures for question 1 on the board
• play the recording twice
• let the team discuss the answer together, then ask one representative from each team to go and
stand next to and point to the correct picture
• give each team one point for a correct answer

• repeat this for each question, changing the team representative each time
• count up the number of correct answers per team and announce the ‘winner’
7 As a round-up, ask students what type of information they listened for in each question:
1 a country
2 a time
3 the weather
4 a distance (in kilometres)
5 a description of a table
Point out that these are typical of the language that is tested in Part 1. Elicit what other typical things might
be described for Part 1 tasks.
Suggested answers: people, animals, objects, activities, dates, months, etc.

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Key
Step 4/5:
1 Where is the woman going to go on holiday this year?
2 What time was the man’s appointment?
3 What will the weather be like?
4 How far is the nearest supermarket?
5 Which table does Sally like?

Step 6 (Sample paper answers):

1. C

2. B

3. A

4. B

5. C

Suggested follow-up activities

1. Photocopy the tapescript for Test 1, Part 1 from the A2 Key Handbook. Students could work in pairs and
read out the dialogue. They could then highlight the part of the dialogue where they find the answers to
the questions.
2. If you want the students to practise using the answer sheet, photocopy it from the A2 Key Handbook and
ask the students to fill in the lozenges in pencil for their answers to Part 1.

1 Look at this Part 1 task and answer your teacher’s questions.

1 Where is the woman going to go on holiday this year?

Canada Italy Turkey

A B C

2 What time was the man’s appointment?

11 12 1 11 1 2 1 11 12 1
10 2 10 2 10 2
9 3 9 3 9 3
8 4 8 4 8 4
7 6 5 7 6 5 7 6 5

A B C

4 How far is the nearest supermarket?

5 km 3 km 1 km

A B C

5 Which table does Sally like?

A B C

This is the Cambridge Key English Test Listening Test. Sample Paper One.
There are fiv e parts to the test. Parts One, Tw o, Three, Four and Fiv e.
We w ill now stop for a moment before w e start the test.
Please ask any questions now because you must NOT speak during the test.
Pause
Look at the instructions for Part One.
Pause
You w ill hear fiv e short conv ersations.
You w ill hear each conversation tw ice.
There is one question for each conv ersation.
For questions 1 - 5, put a tick under the right answ er.
Here is an example:

How many people w ere at the meeting?

Woman: Were there many people at the meeting?
Man: About thirty.
Woman: That's not many.
Man: No, but more than last time.

Pause
The answ er is 30, so there is a tick in box C.
Now w e are ready to start.
Look at question one.
Pause

1 Where is the w oman going to go on holiday this year?

Man Are you going to go on holiday with your sister again this year?
Woman Yes, she comes home from Canada tomorrow, and then we're
going to go away next week.
Man Where are you going?
Woman I've booked a hotel in Turkey. My sister wanted to go to Italy
again, so I hope she doesn't mind.