These eight tasks start with single details and move to mixed clues. Ask someone to read each script aloud at a normal pace while you write your answer, then open the explanation.
The lessons are in listening skills. You can also use the original listening practice player and the timed original practice session builder.
Tasks 1 to 4: one skill at a time
Task 1. Question: “What does the speaker need for the workshop?” Predict the answer type, then listen. Script: “For the art workshop, bring an old shirt to wear. We provide the paint and brushes.”
Answer
Predicted type: an object. Answer: an old shirt. Paint and brushes are provided, so they are distractors.
Task 2. Write the number and time. Script: “Train 16 leaves at twenty past six. The ticket is RM60.”
Answer
Train 16, time 6.20, ticket RM60. The stress on “teen” in sixteen and on the first syllable of “sixty” tells them apart.
Task 3. Write the final date. Script: “Let’s meet on the 12th. Sorry, I mean the 2nd, because I have a test on the 12th.”
Answer
The 2nd. The signal phrase is “sorry, I mean”. The 12th is the first version and is rejected.
Task 4. Which drink does the speaker order? Script: “I’ll have an iced tea. On second thought, it is too cold today, so a hot chocolate please.”
Answer
A hot chocolate. The signal phrase is “on second thought”.
Tasks 5 to 8: mixed clues
Task 5. Options: A cinema, B bowling, C picnic. Where do the friends go?
Script: “The cinema has a long queue today. Bowling is fun, but I spent my allowance.”
“A picnic costs nothing, so let’s do that on Saturday.”
Answer
C, the picnic. The cinema and bowling are rejected, and “let’s do that” is the decision phrase.
Task 6. Write the bus number, the time and the fare. Script: “Take bus 40 at five to eight. The fare is RM14.”
Answer
Bus 40, time 7.55, fare RM14. “Forty” is stressed on the first syllable and “fourteen” on the last.
Task 7. When is the club meeting?
Script: “We will meet at four on Monday. Actually, the hall is booked, so let’s move to Thursday.”
“Same time? No, make it five, because of football practice.”
Answer
Thursday at five. Monday and four are both replaced, with the signals “actually” and “no, make it”.
Task 8. Options: A Ali, B Bala, C Chen. Who will lead the project?
Script: “Ali would be good, but he is travelling. Bala has led before, yet he is busy with exams.”
“Chen is free and keen, so Chen will take the lead.”
Answer
C, Chen. Ali and Bala are rejected with reasons, and “Chen will take the lead” is the decision.
If you got these wrong
Match the task to the lesson and retry only those tasks.
- Task 1: predicting information from question wording.
- Tasks 2 and 6: recognising numbers, dates and similar sounds.
- Tasks 3, 4 and 7: following changes of mind and corrections.
- Tasks 5 and 8: distinguishing a speaker’s final decision from distractors.
Log repeated slips in the mistake log and paper-error review. If you would like a teacher to read scripts aloud for you, see online one-to-one English tuition.