CAE Test 8 Listening Part 4

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4,5

CAE LISTENING TEST 8 PART 4

Exam advice 1

This part tests your ability to identify the gist of what the speakers say, their attitude and the main points, and to interpret the context they are speaking in.

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Exam advice 1

• Before you listen, read both tasks, underlining the key ideas in each option.
  
• Listen to words and phrases which mean the same as the key ideas you have underlined. Listen to the answers of both tasks. You may hear the answer to Task Two before the answer to Task One.
  
• Wait until each speaker has finished talking before you choose your answers.
  

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TASK ONE

You will hear 5 short extracts in which students are talking about their universities. For questions 21-25 choose from the list (A-H) the reason each speaker gives for choosing their university.

TASK TWO

For questions 26-30, choose from the list (A-H) what each speaker found hardest at the start of their first year at university. Write down your answers.

7QPY7W

https://www.bookwidgets.com/play/7QPY7W

• Open 7QPY7W.
  
• Do the listening task.
  
• Then type the letter you have chosen in the following slides.
  
• Finally write down your strengths and weaknesses and write down what you can do to improve your listening skills.
  

Speaker 1 question 21

Speaker 2 question 22

Speaker 3 question 23

Speaker 4 question 24

Speaker 5 question 25

Speaker 1 question 26

Speaker 2 question 27

Speaker 3 question 28

Speaker 4 question 29

Speaker 5 question 30

Strength and weaknesses?
How to improve your listening skills?