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KET 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
required:

ƒ Handout

ƒ Recording of Sample Task (KET Listening Test 2 Part 4 Recording

available at

https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/exams/generalenglish/ket

Aims:

ƒ to familiarise students with Part 5 of the listening paper

ƒ 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:

TIMES

get up

have breakfast

arrive at school

have lunch

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. One student should say a short sentence which includes a price, e.g.

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‘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:

PRICES

a coke

a pizza

a bottle of water

a pair of trainers

a mobile phone

This is to introduce the idea that they have to write down information, such as times
and prices, in Part 5 (and Part 4).

3 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.

2. Check through the answers (see key).

3. 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).

4. 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.

5. Discuss students’ answers as a whole-class activity.

6. 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.

7. Check the answers as a class (see key).

8. 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

3

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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KET 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