GESE 6 Travel Listening Activity

In this download, you can find a listening activity to help students prepare for the GESE 6 exam and the Travel subject area. It is a listening text about travelling around the world.

How to use the GESE 6 Travel 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. Afterwards, ask them the six questions that are given about the text and give them a score out of six.

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 :)

You can also use the listening as a springboard for further discussion – the students can ask and answer questions afterwards about which type of round the world trip they would like to go on, where they would like to visit, etc.

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 6 Travel Independent Listening

Why not try our other GESE 6 resources? There are conversation question cards, vocabulary handouts, listening activities, practice exams and reading/writing lessons for the different conversation areas :)