Listening Comprehension Cloze Exercises & Keys
We believe listening comprehension cloze exercises are very useful. Below four texts associated with timeless themes: moral values today, the problem of drinking water worldwide, the gullibility of the public, renewable energies such as solar power and accomplishing something that seems impossible.
Five stories that lead to interesting discussions
"Honesty is the Best Policy" tells a simple story that makes us reflect on our society. "When the Iceberg Arrives" is an excellent introduction to topics such as "presenting a project" or the "consequences of global warming". "The End of the World is Near" deals with Orson Welles’ hoax in 1938. "The Little Car That Could" is a good introduction to solar power. And Lindbergh opens the debate about accomplishing feats.
Five stories that will review 150 basic structures
"Honesty is the Best Policy" is written in the simple present and simple past tenses. "When the Iceberg Arrives" demonstrates present and future tenses and the verb "to have to". "The End of the World is Near" uses the simple and continuous past plus pluperfect. "The Little Car That Could" provides work with numbers, comparisons and prepositions, and Lindbergh gives many examples of the gerund. In fact if students memorize these five stories, they will have learned more than 150 important language structures that will help them in conversation and when taking exams.
Continuous readings and listen-and-repeat recordings
Concerning the texts, you will find the recordings with continuous readings and listen-and-repeat recordings. For "Honesty is the Best Policy" there is a worksheet with a gap-filling exercise and vocabulary plus the key and an assignment as a sample. For the other texts the written materials (cloze exercises, keys, questions, and even assignments in MS Word) are to be found in the packs that we sell at the store for a modest fee and in "Qualitytime-ESL: The Digital Resource Book". The files on the DVD are in both PDF and MS Word, so you can personalize these worksheets very easily, adding translations, information, comments, etc. We recommend that students work on the QualityTime-ESL podcasts with oral drills at the same time. You can download most of these podcasts free of charge.
The Digital Resource Book
As I mentioned above, all these recordings plus the written materials are to be found in "Qualitytime-ESL: The Digital Resource Book" together with 1,500 other files (in MS Word, MP3 and MPG).
And we suggest you should visit our song pages—the first one is called subtitled videos of songs with cloze exercises. There are several other pages with subtitled songs for listening comprehension and sing along in class. Two are devoted to the Beatles and to ABBA. Here below are the short stories.
"Honesty is the Best Policy": Simple Present and Simple Past Tenses
"Honesty" Continuous recording
"Honesty" Listen & Repeat recording
"Honesty" Worksheet
"Honesty" Key
"Honesty" Assignment
"When the Iceberg Arrives": Present and Future Tenses & the Verb "Have to"
"When the Iceberg Arrives" Continuous recording
"When the Iceberg Arrives" Listen & Repeat recording
"The End of the World": Simple and Continuous Past plus Pluperfect
"The End of the World Part 1" Continuous recording
"The End of the World Part 1" Listen & Repeat recording
"The End of the World Part 2" Continuous recording
"The End of the World Part 2" Listen & Repeat recording
"The Little Car That Could": Numbers in a text, comparisons & prepositions
"The Little Car That Could" Continuous recording
"The Little Car That Could" Listen & Repeat recording
"Lindbergh": Gerunds
"Lindbergh" Part 1 Continuous recording
"Lindbergh" Part 1 Listen & Repeat recording
"Lindbergh" Part 2 Continuous recording
"Lindbergh" Part 2 Listen & Repeat recording
Accompanying written materials
Accompanying written materials (exercises and keys) as well as "Listen and Repeat" versions of all these continuous recordings can be found on the "QualityTime-ESL" DVD. To purchase "The Qualitytime-ESL Digital Resource Book" just go to "Ordering the DVDs".)
To download the documents above, which are in mp3, just click on the right button of the mouse and choose: "Save to hard drive".
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