GESE 4 Hobbies and Sports Listening

In this download, you can find a listening activity to help your students prepare for the GESE 4 exam and the Hobbies and Sports subject area. The students listen to a talk about a ski jumper and then report the facts they hear. There is an mp3 listening audio file and a PDF with the instructions and the audio script.

How to use the GESE 4 Hobbies and Sports Listening Activity

You can use the listening activity in a number of different ways.

You could do the activity exactly as it is on the handout just see to how well the students can understand the text. Then, you could go through the vocabulary and help students with their difficulties,
Alternatively, you could first brainstorm with the students some of the things they might hear in a talk about a famous person and then they listen and see which types of facts were mentioned.
Once you have finished the listening, ask students to make sentences about the ski jumper. This will revise describing people and review all the vocabulary again.
You can also ask students to listen again and make notes about what they hear. Then, in pairs, they try to recreate the text and write it out. This is called a dictagloss activity and it can help students to write more accurately as they have to recreate the structures they hear on the audio.
Finally, you can ask students to think of a famous sports person they admire and they write a description of him/her. Then they read it to other students in the class who take notes and report back what they heard.

Enjoy using the GESE 4 Hobbies and Sports Listening activity with your students!

You can download the audio mp3 file and the pdf instructions and audio script by clicking on the red button below :)

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Don’t forget to try our other GESE 4 resources – there are conversation question cards for the different subject areas, vocabulary handouts, lesson plans and more… :)