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Level 3

Extensive Preview Listening for Final Exam

Level Three Extensive Preview Listening Passages Spring 2013

FAQs 1. What are these?
They are 4 listening passages 2 dialogues (or conversations) and 2 lectures. Two of these (1 dialogue and 1 lecture) will be in the Mid-term Exam. We are calling this an Extensive Preview part of the exam extensive means a lot and preview mean see before you need to. The idea behind this is that you get to see what you are going to be tested on, long before the exam. You will not know which listening passage will be used so you will have to listen to them all. And you will not know what the questions are until the day of the exam. The marks for the exam will count towards your L3 grade.

2. Why are we doing this?

To help you. This gives you a chance to get higher grades through your own work. We have chosen Reading and Listening because it is in these areas that students usually get the lowest scores in the Level 3 Exams and the IELTS Exam. In addition, we think that if you work on the Extensive Preview Readings and Listenings, your reading and listening ability generally will improve.

3. What should you do with them?

Work on them independently and with your friends. You will not get any help in class. Your teacher will concentrate on your regular course. You should do the following things: Listen to the passages carefully and do everything you need to do to understand them, for example: Listen for difficult or new words and find out what they mean. Write down in a few words what the topic is. Write down in a few words what the main point of each section is. Write down in a few words what the main pieces of information are. Listen for numbers, amounts, dates etc. and write them down make sure that they are correctly written Listen for spellings and write them down make sure that they are correctly written Find difficult sentences and ideas and work out exactly what they mean. Make up questions that you think might be in the exam. Work with other students who are also doing Level 3. Compare answers, share information, discuss each listening.

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Level 3

Extensive Preview Listening for Final Exam

4. What types of questions will be asked in the Listening section of the Extensive Preview exam?
Mostly, the same types of questions as you find in IELTS Exams: Questions that ask about general meaning o Identify the topic of the whole passage o Identify the stages of the lecture Questions that ask about detailed meaning o Identify specific information people, things, amounts, names, spellings. o Identify specific ideas how, why, what, when, which things happened. o Question types such as multiple choice, true/false/not given, matching, fact/opinion Questions that ask about certain words in the passage o Choose the correct dictionary definitions o Choose the correct meaning of a word

5. Will these listenings be the only things tested in the exam?

No, There will be 3 listenings (2 of which you will have heard before), 1 short reading/understanding graphics exercise, and 2 long readings (1 of which you will have read before). So, in the Mid-term exam there will be six parts: 1. 2. 3. 4. Listening 1 (a dialogue conversation that you have heard before, with 7 questions Listening 2 (a lecture that you have heard before with about 10 questions) Listening 3 (a lecture that is new to you with about 10 questions) Reading 1 /Understanding Graphics (5 Questions on an IELTS Writing Task 1 graph, chart or diagram) 5. Reading 2 (one of the readings in the reading booklet with 15 questions) 6. Reading 3 (a reading passage that is new to you, with 15 questions)

Now it is up to you! Work hard and good luck!

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