Campaign 2

Name .................................................

Date ............................................................

Mid course test: Listening

Time allowed: 25 minutes

You will hear each recording ONCE only.

Task 1 Listen to the recordings of three soldiers talking about their work. Place a tick
(3) in the box corresponding to the work/responsibilities each soldier talks about. An
example (0) has been done for you.

Philips Thompson

Crawley

0

Commander of 2 Platoon

3

1 Regimental

Quartermaster

Sergeant

Major

2

Clerk (Regimental Admin Office)

3

Responsible for training & fitness

4

Handles orders for spare parts for
vehicles

5

Processes applications for leave

6

Ensures men are prepared for
operations

7

Responsible for providing battalion
with ammunition

8

Takes men on adventure training
exercises

9

Casualty reporting and POW
registration

10 Commands platoon in dangerous

situations

11 Responsible for equipment

12 Conducts security patrols

Task 2 Listen to a military briefing. Answer the questions using ONE word in each
space. An example (0) has been done for you.

0 Tomorrow is Tuesday 4 October.

1 The briefing is about the annual ____________ _____________ in Catterick.

2 The ground may be _______________.

3 Soldiers will need their mess tins, cutlery and their _______________ for lunch.

4 The soldiers will get up at _____________.

5 After breakfast, the men will parade in front of the ________________________.

6 Detail 1 will consist of Section 1 plus personnel from ______________ _________.

7 Lt Deacon will be the ______________ Officer.

8 The concurrent activity will be __________ ______________ training.

9 Transport to the ___________________ is at 1300.

10 The soldier with the highest score will win a/an _________________.

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Task 3 Look at the information below. Some of it is incorrect. Listen to the radio
exchange and write the correct information. An example (0) has been done for you.
(Note that numbers 0–10 do not correspond to individual sentences. You will hear a
single radio exchange.) There are 11 errors in the notes.

0 This is H39. FIREREP at 1915 hours. (

1950

)

1 One mortar round exploded at grid two one five seven eight six, at twenty metres from OP9.

2 Source of firing is rebel camp.

3 H13. Say all again after position.

4 Question. Are there any casualties? Over.

H39. Affirmative. Over. No. Wait – wait.

5 Roger. Do you have back-up on the spot?

6 Is the area secure? Over.

Negative.

7 We will extract the casualty at grid two one five seven three niner, two hundred metres west

of Bluetown.

8 Move to the extraction point in ten minutes. I say again. Move to the extraction point at

2050 hours. Acknowledge. Over.

Task 4 Listen to the briefing and write short answers to each question using no more
than FIVE words. An example (0) has been done for you.

0 The briefer is Sgt Ambrose.

1 This is the second lesson on tactics for _____________________________________.

2 Sgt Ambrose will talk about the formations for ______________________________.

3 The practical demonstration will be given by ________________________________.

4 The basic formations include the column, staggered column, line, vee _________________.

5 Sgt Ambrose’s first slide shows the _______________________________________.

6 According to Sgt Ambrose, the problem with the column formation is that only the lead

track ____________________________________________________________.

7 The next slide shows the ________________________________________________.

8 The _____________________ is the best to use when contact with the enemy is expected.

9 The wedge formation is used by platoons moving in ______________________________.

10 The wedge formation gives ___________________________________ to the flanks.

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