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Monkey Forest Day Out: Listening

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UNIT: Listening

TASK: Multiple choice

PURPOSE: Develop listening comprehension

LEVEL: Intermediate

DESCRIPTION:

A free printable worksheet is designed for ESL/EFL classrooms in order to help students of English develop and improve their skills in listening. The task is based on a story about a family day out at the Monkey Forest – one of the famous attractions in the UK. This could be an interesting point for a group discussion for those who would like teach and learn cultural life of the UK as well as English language. The worksheet provides twelve multiple choice questions in order to check students’ understanding of a spoken text. This is a useful activity for students aiming at sitting a test in English. The script and the answers are provided on a separate page. There is no audio to support the activity, so the script is to be read out to the students during the lesson.

The same text and set of questions can be used as a reading activity – check out the worksheet available on our website:

Monkey Forest Day Out: Reading

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Bonfire Night: Listening

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UNIT: Listening

TASK: Multiple choice

PURPOSE: Develop listening comprehension

LEVEL: Upper Intermediate

DESCRIPTION:

A free printable worksheet is designed for ESL/EFL classrooms in order to help students of English develop and improve their skills in listening. The text of the task provides information on the origin and customs of Bonfire Night festival, also known as Guy Fawkes Night. The script and the answers are provided on a separate page. There is no audio to support the activity, so the script is to be read out to the students during the lesson. The text is rater long but written at accessible language. The worksheet provides twelve multiple choice questions in order to check students’ understanding of a spoken text. This is a useful activity for students aiming at sitting a test in English.

The same text and set of questions can be used as a reading activity. Have a look at this version of the worksheet:

Reading About Bonfire Night

Using picture prompts and illustrations is a great way of enhancing listening and reading comprehension. You might want to use the selection of images offered by ESOL worksheets to support this and other activities based around Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Night:

Bonfire Night Images

Working on target vocabulary is an important pre-listening task. Consider using the following worksheet to pre-teach or recap vocabulary relevant to Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Night:

Bonfire Night: Vocabulary

Would like to teach grammar alongside the topics on culture and traditions related to festivals in English-speaking countries? Have a look at this worksheet aiming at practicing using irregular verbs in sets of sentences about celebrating Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Night:

Bonfire Night: Irregular Verbs

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Going To The Cinema

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UNIT: Listening

TASK: Multiple choice answers

PURPOSE: Practice listening for gist and detail

LEVEL: Elementary / Lower Intermediate

DESCRIPTION:

This resource offers a basic listening activity built around a short story about going to the cinema.  There is no audio file to support the activity, but the script can always be read out by the teacher. This activity includes listening for gist (question 1) and detail (questions 2-6). While offering learners more practice on comprehending spoken language, the following vocabulary can be reinforced: words for relationship, days of week, time and names of places. As the activity is designed for the learners with lower language skills, the answer options are supported by pictures.

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