GESE 4 Shopping Listening
In this download, you can find a listening activity to help your students prepare for the GESE 4 exam and the Shopping subject area. The students listen to a person describing a department store and match the things in it to spaces on a plan. There is an mp3 listening audio file and a PDF with the instructions, the plan and the audio script.
How to use the GESE 4 Shopping 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 find in department store – shoes, bags, clothes, etc. Then show them the plan and ask them to name the things that are represented with icons at the bottom. After this, once the students are prepared, play the listening text and get them to match the things in the office with the places on the plan.
- Once you have finished the listening, ask students to make sentences about where things are in the department store. This will revise describing places 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 imagine that they visited this department store. They can describe it and talk about what they did when they were there, what they bought, etc. They could also imagine the shop has just opened and that they write an email to a friend describing their visit there.
Enjoy using the GESE 4 Shopping Listening activity with your students !
You can download the audio mp3 file and the pdf instructions, map and audio script by clicking on the red button below :)
File: GESE 4 Shopping Listening
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… :)