Listening+Ket

Listening: 30 minutes
==**Listening is the ability to identify and understand what others are saying. This involves understanding a speaker's accent or pronunciation, his grammar and his vocabulary, and grasping his meaning. An able listener is capable of doing these four things simultaneously.**== ==**Listening is often a challenging activity for language learners. This could be because they have to deal with a range of accents and speeds or because the content may be difficult to follow. Sometimes background noise on the recording makes it more difficult to understand. In natural speech it is normal to interrupt, use ellipsis, or leave sentences unfinished. So recordings based on natural speech are also likely to be difficult.**==

**//Before// activities aim at motivating students to listen and getting them to anticipate texts and focus on key vocabulary in advance.**
==**//During// activities focus on the detail of the text and include listening and matching, gap-fill, ordering tasks, identifying attitude, and summarizing tasks. Quiz and Lesson modules are well suited to this.**==

KET Listening Description

 * ~ Paper Element ||~ Description ||
 * ~ Paper Format || This paper contains five parts. ||
 * ~ Timing || About 30 minutes, including 8 minutes' transfer time. ||
 * ~ No of Questions || 25 ||
 * ~ Task Types || Matching, multiple choice, gap-fill. ||
 * ~ Sources || All texts are based on authentic situations and each part is heard twice. ||
 * ~ Answering || Candidates indicate answers either by shading lozenges (Parts 1-3) or writing answers, (Parts 4 and 5) on the answer sheet. ||
 * ~ Marks || Each item carries 1 mark. This gives a total of 25 marks which represents 25% of total marks for the whole examination ||