ISE II Public Figures Listening

ISE II Public Figures Listening

In this download, there is an independent listening task to help ISE II students prepare for the ISE II Independent Listening Task and the ISE II Public Figures Past and Present conversation area. It provides lots of good vocabulary and language of the grade and is a good way to reinforce the lexis of public figures and being famous. The listening is about the advantages and disadvantages of being famous and in the public eye, so it’s a good springboard to further discussion.

How to use the ISE II Public Figures Listening Resource

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 advantages and disadvantages of being famous 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 advantages and disadvantages, ask the students to discuss which they agree with and which they don’t agree with. They could also write an essay about the advantages and disadvantages of being in the public eye.

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: ISE II Public Figures Listening

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