GESE 8 the World of Work Listening
In this download, there is a listening task to help GESE 8 students prepare for their GESE 8 exam and The World of Work conversation area. It provides lots of good vocabulary and language of the grade and is a good way to reinforce the lexis of work. The listening is about obtaining a good work-home balance, so it’s a good springboard to further discussion.
How to Use the GESE 8 The World of Work Listening Task
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 once to find the gist of the listening. Then they listen and take notes about what they hear and report back the ways of achieving a good work-home balance that the speaker mentions.
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. You might want to do this with just one section of the listening after having done the first listening activity above.
You can also use the text as a springboard for discussion. After reporting the different ways of achieving a good work-home balance, they could say which they agree and disagree with and offer their own suggestions. They could also write an article about the subject.
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 8 The World of Work Listening
Why not try our other GESE 8 resources? There are conversation question cards, vocabulary mind maps and reading/writing lessons for the different conversation areas.