PET for Schools Listening Part 3 Activity Notes for teachers

Description Students listen to Part 3 instructions and discuss what they will hear and what they will have to do. They look at a Part 3 task to predict the answers before listening to the text. Finally they use the tapescript to confirm the answers and identify distractor information.

Time required: Materials required:

60 minutes Activity worksheet Tapescript Sample paper Part 3 to introduce Part 3 to give practice in prediction and in completing a Part 3 to raise awareness of distractors

Aims:

Procedure 1. Play the instructions on the recording for the sample paper Part 3 task. Elicit the topic of the text (a film-making competition). Ask students what kind of camera they use and if they have ever made any short films. 2. Elicit what candidates have to do for this part of the test (fill in missing information). Explain that in Part 3, candidates see a page of notes which summarise the listening text, with six pieces of information missing. They have to listen and fill in the gaps with the words from the listening text. The text is a longer monologue which gives information about places or events. 3. Elicit how long candidates have before they start listening to the text (20 seconds) if necessary play the instructions again if they cant remember. 4. Put students in pairs to discuss what they should do during these 20 seconds. Elicit the fact that they should read the instructions and notes carefully and predict the kinds of information they are listening for and, where possible, the answers. 5. Ask students to guess what sort of information they might hear in this recording about a film-making competition. Tell them that the talk includes information about the type of film that can be entered in this competition, the judges and the prizes. Write these three things on the board, and ask students to predict a few ideas for each of the topics in pairs then as a class (e.g. film types: horror, documentary, comedy, autobiographical/diary judges: famous directors, past winners prizes: a camera, money, a photography holiday)
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6. Hand out the Activity worksheet. Explain that this is from the question paper with a few hints on to help them with their prediction. Ask students to work in pairs to answer the 9 questions and predict the missing information as far as possible. 7. Put the students into groups of four (two pairs) and ask them to share their ideas. 8. Whole class feedback about the worksheet (see key for suggested answers) 9. Tell students that they are now going to listen to the text all the way through. They should listen and try to answer as many questions as possible. Remind students that the information will be in the same order in the text as it is on the question paper. 10. Play the text all the way through. 11. Students compare answers with their partner. 12. Play the text again. 13. Whole class check of answers (see key) 14. Hand out the tapescript and play the text again for students to follow and find the answers (see key). 15. Briefly ask if any of the students would like to enter such a competition, and if so, what kind of film they would make. 16. Remind students that distractors are often used in PET. Ask students to identify possible distractors in the tapescript for each question. Do the first one as an example. Whole class check (see key). 17. Ask the following questions: Are the answers on the tapescript in the same order as the information on the summary? (Yes) Do you need to understand most of the listening text to get the right answer? (No, but you need to be able to identify short pieces of information from the text) How long are the answers that they need to write? (Usually very short, one or two words. They shouldnt waste time writing more than is necessary) Did the words you used in your answers come from the recording? (Yes, you need not and should not try to change the words) Were any of the words difficult to spell? (Perhaps Q16 weather. Explain that recognisable spelling is accepted, except with very high frequency words, e.g. Monday or where spelling is dictated. Use the example of weather which would be acceptable as wether.

18. Have a brief class discussion about how easy or difficult they think this part of the test is. As it is the only part where students have to answer in words rather than a choosing a letter, they may find it more stressful. Remind students of how they can help themselves in this part by: reading the notes thinking about / being prepared for the topic

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predicting possible answers moving on to the next question if you miss an answer checking your answers at the end to make sure the completed notes make sense

Follow up activities Focus on the cues which show that an answer is coming by underlining the cues in the tapescript or asking students to raise their hands when they think an answer is coming Raise awareness of the amount of redundant information by asking students to colour in the answers in one colour on the tapescript and the redundant information in another colour Practise prediction with all listening texts by playing the introduction and the sections one by one and asking students to predict what is coming next

Key to prediction exercise (step 8)

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Key to the sample task (step 13)

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Key to distractors exercise (step 16) 14.There are many other numbers mentioned in the first part (11, 18, 3, 8) but none of these refer to film length. 15. Horror and comedy are mentioned but these are types that were accepted in the past. 16. The family is also mentioned but that was last years topic 17. Martha Fernando is also an author and the books name is given too. The other judge has also directed a film and that name is given too. 18. The other prizes are mentioned, but these are also written on the page. The adjective latest is used instead of modern (i.e. paraphrased) 19. The offices in the Market Square, where you should take your film, are mentioned.

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Tapescript with answers underlined (step 14)

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PET for Schools Listening Part 3

Activity

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Sample paper Part 3

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Tapescript Part 3

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