GESE 5 Special Occasions Listening

GESE 5 Special Occasions Listening

In this download, you can find a listening activity to help students prepare for GESE 5 and the Special Occasions subject area. It is a listening text about he Royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton.

How to use the GESE 5 Special Occasions Listening Activity

There are several ways you can use this resource. You could just use it as a listening exercise to help improve students listening skills. Ask students to listen twice and write down notes about what they hear in the listening text, and then ask them the six questions about the text. You could also ask them to listen a third time and write down all the vocabulary related to weddings.

Alternatively, you could get students to work in pairs and make notes while they listen. When they have listened twice, they work together to try and rebuild the text, as close to the original as possible. This is called a dictagloss activity and it helps students with their sentence formation and with reinforcing the language of the grade.

Finally, you could use the listening text to have a competition. Students work in small groups, they listen and take notes, and then they have to write as many facts as they can on a piece of paper. Give one point for a correct fact and take a point away if the fact is incorrect. The team with the most points is the winner :)

We hope you like this listening text. The download below contains the listening in an mp3 file and a pdf with the audio script and the answer key. Click on the red button to download.

File: GESE 5 Special Occasions Listening

Why not try our other GESE 5 resources? There are conversation question cards, vocabulary mind maps and reading/writing lessons for the different conversation areas.