A2 Key Listening Part 5: Listen to a monologue – Teacher’s Notes

Description
Students do a lead-in activity where they have to write down times and prices. They answer some
True/False questions about Part 5 to familiarise themselves with this task. Finally, students do a Part
5 task.

Time required: 15 Minutes

Materials  Handout
required:
 Recording of Sample Task (Key Listening Test 2 Part 4 Recording
available at

 http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams/key/)

Aims:  to familiarise students with Part 5 of the listening paper

 to practise listening and writing information

Procedure
1. As a lead in, ask students to write down the times you say (in digits, not in words), e.g. nine
o’clock, ten thirty, a quarter to eleven, a quarter past twelve. Quickly check these by asking a
volunteer to write them on the board. Then ask students to work in pairs. One student says a
short sentence which includes a time and the other student has to write down the time, e.g. ‘I
get up at 7 o’clock.’ They can then change roles.
Put the these prompts on the board to help them:
a. TIMES
b. get up
c. have breakfast
d. arrive at school
e. have lunch
f. go to bed
2. Ask students how to write prices, e.g. sixty pence (60p), four pounds, seventy-five (£4.75). In
the exam the pound sign is usually given but students are expected to put a decimal point
between pounds and pence. Write the examples 60p and £4.75 on the board. Point out that it
is not necessary to put ‘p’ for pence when we say pounds plus pence but we do write it when
the price is only pence. Ask students to write down 89 pence (89p/pence), £1.50, £3.45,
£26.32. Check the answers by asking different students to come up and write the prices on
the board. Ask students to work in pairs.

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3. One student should say a short sentence which includes a price, e.g. ‘a coke costs 3 euros’,
and the other student should write down the price. They then change roles. Write these
prompts on the board to help them:
a. PRICES
b. a coke
c. a pizza
d. a bottle of water
e. a pair of trainers
f. a mobile phone
4. This is to introduce the idea that they have to write down information, such as times and
prices, in Part 5 (and Part 4).
5. Explain that Part 5 is similar to Part 4. If you have already introduced Part 4, elicit from
students what they have to do in Part 4. In both Part 4 and Part 5 students have to listen and
write a word or number(s). Explain that they are going to discover more about Part 5 by
answering some questions. Give out the handout and read through question 1 with the
students. Ask them to do question 1 in pairs.
6. Check through the answers (see key).
7. Ask students what sort of information they might hear about a food market (a number, type of
food, date, price, name, etc – i.e. similar to information tested in Part 4).
8. Ask students to look at the questions in 2. Read out the questions and check that everyone
understands them. Ask students to work in pairs and to predict the answers to the questions.
The purpose of this is to engage students with the task. Point out that predicting answers is a
good strategy to use in the exam.
9. Discuss students’ answers as a whole-class activity.
10. Explain that you will now play the recording and that they should complete Part 5. Play the
recording once. Ask students to compare their answers. Play the recording again so that they
can check their answers.
11. Check the answers as a class (see key).
12. As a round up, ask students to contrast listening to a dialogue in Part 4 and listening to a
monologue in Part 5. What difference does it make? On the one hand listening to a dialogue
means students have to recognise and deal with turn taking (in the exam there is usually one
male and one female speaker to make this easier) whereas listening to a monologue, the
information can appear to be more densely packed. However, care is taken that the answers
come at regular intervals throughout texts. Remind students that if a word is spelled out on the
recording, their answer must be spelled correctly. However, recognisable spelling is accepted,
except with very high frequency words, e.g. red.

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Key to handout
1 a) True
b) False – there are 5.
c) True – candidates have to write words or numbers. They should write their answers on the
question paper as they listen and then at the end of the test there are eight minutes for
candidates to transfer their answers to the answer sheet. Answers must be written in pencil on
the answer sheet.

2 Students’ own answers

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21. fish(es)

22. bread

23. 11.30

24. 55p

25. telephones

Suggested follow-up activities

1. If you want students to practise using the answer sheet, photocopy it from the handbook and
ask the students to write their answers in pencil in the spaces for the questions for Part 5.
2. Hand out the tapescript. Ask students to find the information for the answers in the tapescript
and to underline it. Check their answers. Play the recording again, asking the students to
listen and read at the same time
Answer Tapescript
Man This is some information for shoppers at Elwood Food Market. There are three large food
halls here.
Turn left at the entrance for Hall 1. Here you can buy many different vegetables. Choose the
vegetables yourself. Use the plastic bags and then pay for everything at the cash desk. This
hall also has very good fish. It all comes here straight from the sea.
In Hall 2, you can find lovely cakes and bread. And next to this hall there is a café. You can
get sandwiches, snacks and drinks all day in the café, and a hot breakfast until 11.30.
Hall 3 is the biggest hall and sells cheese, eggs and meat. In this hall there is also a special
Italian shop. You can buy different pasta and they make pizza daily. At 55p a piece, it's not
expensive. Children will love our new playroom. It's at the end of the hall next to
the telephones. You can leave them there safely when you shop.
Happy shopping!

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A2 Key Listening Part 5: Listen to a monologue – Sample Task

1 Look at the Part 5 task and answer True or False to these questions.
a) You will hear some information about a food market.
b) There are four questions.
c) You have to write the answers.

2 Read these questions. Talk to a partner and answer these questions together.
a) What different types of food can you usually find in a food market?
b) What time do you think a café should serve breakfast until?
c) How much do you think a small piece of pizza costs?
d) What other facilities can you sometimes find in a market or big supermarket? (e.g. café,
toilets, ...)

3 Listen and answer questions 21-25 about Elwood Food Market.

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 Part 5
Questions 21-25

You will hear some information about a food market.

Listen and complete questions 21-25.

You will hear the information twice.

ELWOOD FOOD MARKET

Hall 1 sells: vegetables

21 and ………………………………...

Hall 2 sells: 22 cakes and ………………………

Hot breakfast in the café until: 23

Hall 3

Piece of pizza costs: 24

Children’s playroom next to the: 25

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