Listening Part 1

What is Listening Part 1? Task information: Table, Note and

• a conversation between two people, either face Form completion
to face or on the phone This task requires you to fill in the spaces in the table. The
• one or two tasks (e.g. table completion) spaces are numbered in the same order as the information
• an example and 10 questions you hear.
You have to:
The purpose of the conversation is to communicate
and share information that will be useful in some way • listen to a conversation, which you hear once only.
(e.g. for making a holiday booking, for working out • write one to three words, a number, or a date in
the best transport options). each space in the table.
What does it test? • write the exact words you hear.
• understanding specific information e.g. dates, • spell everything correctly.
prices, everyday objects, locations
• spelling of people and place names

Useful language: spelling

In Part 1, a speaker will sometimes spell out the name of a person, street or company.
You need to be very familiar with the English names for the letters of the alphabet, as the word will only be spelt out once.
(i') 1 Listen and choose the first letter in each pair that you hear.
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01 1 A/E 2 A/I 3 E/1 4 A/R
Not all place names are spelt out. For
5 Y/E 6 0/U 7 B/P 8 G/J example, the underlined words ore very
9 S/F 10 M / N 11 H/X 12 D/T common in English, so you should learn
how to spell words like these.
(i') 2 Listen to some words being spelt out and write down what you hear. Mountain View Hotel
1 Manager: Sarah ........................................... �Road
02 [Link].d.a.f Street
2 Email: ........................................... @[Link]

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3 Meeting point: ........................................... School sports field
4 Hotel name:
5 Address: 112 ........................................... Terrace When we say a phone number, we can
6 Company: ........................................... Movers pronounce 0 as oh, or say zero.
When we talk about money we say,

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Useful language: numbers for example, seven pounds I dollars I
(i') 1 Listen and write the numbers you hear. euros fifty. I £7.50, $7.50, €7.50).

03 1 Customer cell phone: ...........................................

2 Distance of race: ........................................... miles The answer can be written in numerals
3 A one-way ticket is: £ or in letters, e.g. 650, or six hundred and

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4 Home address: ........................................... Bayside Road. fifty. But it's much easier and faster to
5 Width of window frame: ........................................... inches write numerals!
6 Booking reference:
For similar sounding numbers, listen
out for the stressed syllable e.g. fif!.[Link],
fifty, sixt.e..e.n, �ty.

- Training Test 1 Listening Part 1

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 Useful language: times and dates
(i) 1 Listen and write the times or dates you hear.
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We say dates like 1752 or 1997 as
1 Arrival date: ........................................... seventeen fifty-two and nineteen
04 ninety-seven. For years following 2000,
2 Class schedule: ........................................... to 6:30 p.m. we can say, for example, two thousand
3 Date of last inspection: ..........................................., 2018 eighteen, or two thousand and /en/
eighteen, or twenty eighteen.

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4 Best time to visit:
5 The courses finishes on:
6 Delivery date:

Useful language: recognising when the answer is coming You can write a date in
In Part 1, you might see a question like 'Height: about I ..................cm'. different ways to get a mark
( e.g. 3 rd March, March 3 or
You might not hear the word 'height' in the recording. Instead, the speaker
3 March). This fits the one
might ask a question, or say something that relates to a person's height.
word and/ or a number in
This will tell you when the answer is coming. the instruction.

1 Match an answer 1-6 with a question A-F the speaker might ask.

Height: around 1 .......9......... feet A 'So can you tell me how long the curtains are?'

Width: 2 ....J.-2...... centimetres B 'How tall are the trees at the moment - approximately?'

Distance: 3 ......-?.'?...... kilometres C 'And what would the charge for that be?'

Length: 4 .... 9..9.9... inches D 'How heavy is the box you want us to move?'

Weight: about 5 .... 9..9........ kg E 'Do you know how wide the screen is?'

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Cost: 6s F 'How far is it from the hotel to the airport?'

Don't add words like euros or inches or

kilometres to the answer sheet if they
are provided on the question paper.

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Exam Practice Test 1 Listening Part 1

Action plan for Table completion Write an answer in each

1 Look at the instructions to find out how many words you can write. space even if you aren't
2 Look at the heading and the subheadings. There is time to do this sure about it. A guess might
before you listen. turn out to be right and get

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a mark, but an empty space
3 Look at the spaces and think about what kinds of word or number are won't be given a mark.
needed (e.g. a date, a distance, an address, a plural noun).
4 Listen to the introduction, which tells you what the conversation is about.
5 Listen carefully to the conversation and focus on each question in turn. The question numbers

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As soon as you've written the answer to one question, listen for the run horizontally across
answer to the next. each row.
6 Move on to the next row each time the speaker talks
about something new - in this case, a new class.
If one of your answers is more than one
word and a number, it is wrong, and won't
get a mark.
Questions 1-10
05 Complete the table below.
Write ONE WORD AND/ OR A NUMBER for each answer. • Remember you only hear the recording once.

Art classes at Bramley Community Centre

Class Things to bring Fees/ Timetable Tutor
Example a set of 1 ................. . The cost is A local artist called
'Movement and ..)i_ght. ...': is essential 2 $ .................. for two terms Steve 3 ..................
painting in the style of Monday evenings
French Impressionists 6-8 p.m., Room 15

'Clay basics': an old 5 .................. The cost is $180 per term Theresa Clark - her
using the pottery wheel would be a good idea Every 6 .................. work is displayed in
to make several 4 .................. 6:30-8:30 p.m., Room 3 the community centre

'Sketching Architecture': people usually take The cost is $160 per term Annie Li
drawing old buildings, a fold-up chair and a Fridays 11-1 p.m. meet Annie's cell phone
starting with the 7.................. 8 .................. at the corner of Victoria number: 10 ..................
Street and 9 .................. Road

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1 Should the noun you write be plural or singular?
2 Make sure the answer you choose is for two terms, not one.
4 Use your general knowledge to predict the kind of things people might make in a pottery class. And note the word several.
5 Listen for the word old, a similar adjective, or a paraphrase in the recording. This may signal that the answer is coming soon. Note that
the occurrence of the same adjective (old/in both the recording and the question is unusual.
6 What does the word every tell you about the kind of noun that is needed?
7 The answer must be a kind of building. Listen carefully - because one or more buildings might be mentioned as distraction.

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