Part 3 matching: choosing tools for a group project
You can match what speakers say to options written in other words, and ignore the ideas they reject.
Three students are deciding which online tools to use for a group project. That is typical of Listening Part 3: a conversation about study or training, between up to four people.
Your task is matching. Each question is a tool, the options are comments in a box, and you match each tool to what the students say about it. Two comments are never used, and some are said aloud and then rejected.
Warm-up
Same idea, other words
Before any recording plays, read one option from a box. The speakers will say it in their own words.
Read thisIt takes a long time to set up.
Which sentence from a conversation means the same as this option?
How it works
What do the students say about each tool? Choose FIVE answers from the box and write the correct letter, A-G, next to Questions 21-25.
- AIt is difficult to use on a phone.
- BIt has more functions than the group needs.
- CIt caused problems in an earlier project.
- DThe group will have to pay for it.
- EIt keeps a record of what the group agrees.
- FTheir tutor wants them to use it.
- GIt would save the group time.
- 21the shared document21
- 22the group chat22
- 23video calls23
- 24the task board24
- 25the survey tool25
Part 3 is questions 21 to 30. A matching set like this one takes up part of it.
The method
- 1Read the box before you listen
Use the reading time to think of other ways to say each comment. Too expensive might come as it's more than we can spend.
- 2Follow the questions in order
The tools come up in the order of the questions, so you always know which one is being discussed. The comments in the box can come in any order.
- 3Wait for the group to agree
One speaker suggests something, and another often disagrees. The answer is the comment that is still standing when they move on.
- 4Rule out each comment you use
In a set like this, each comment fits only one question, and two are left over. Once you have used a comment, leave it out when you search the box for the later questions.
Question 21: the shared document
Question 21 is yours first. Listen once and pick a comment, and then I'll talk you through how I chose mine.
Clip 1: the shared document
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In the exam you hear this once. Here you may play it again after you have tried.
21. What do the students say about the shared document?
Watch me do one
Question 21 is the shared document. I have read the box, so I know more functions than the group needs might come as too many features.
Callum says nearly that: hundreds of features. B looks right, but it is early, so I wait.
Dana answers him: This one's pretty basic, though. B has just been rejected.
Then Priya: Dr Moreau has asked every group to write the draft in one. Someone who tells every group how to write its draft, and then comments on it, is their tutor. That is F.
Callum agrees, that settles it, and they move on to messages. My answer is F, and F is now used up.
Practice with Elita5 questions
Four more tools with a clip for each, then a short exchange to read. The real test plays each recording once, so answer after one listen.
Question 22: the group chat
Play the clip once. Two comments from the box come up, and only one of them survives.
Clip 2: the group chat
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22. What do the students say about the group chat?
Question 23: video calls
Play the clip once and choose the comment. Listen for what they decide to do in the end.
Clip 3: video calls
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23. What do the students say about the video calls?
Question 24: the task board
Play the clip once. One student likes the idea, and the other two do not.
Clip 4: the task board
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24. What do the students say about the task board?
Question 25: the survey tool
The last tool. Play the clip once, and ignore any comment you have already used.
Clip 5: the survey tool
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25. What do the students say about the survey tool?
Accepted or rejected?
This exchange comes from a different group. Read it and decide what happens to Amir's idea.
Read thisAmir: The library's booking system is the easiest way to get a room. Jess: Easiest? It took me twenty minutes to book one last week, and then it booked the wrong day.
Amir's idea: the booking system is the easiest way to get a room.
Words to keep
An early version of a piece of writing, which will be improved. Our tutor comments on the draft before we hand in the final report.
The time or date by which something must be finished. The deadline for the group report is the last Friday of term.
End a discussion with a decision. The tutor asked for a shared document, and that settled it.
Share a cost between several people. Four of us split the cost of the software.
Get a system or tool ready to use. I set up the group chat before our first meeting.
Hidden under a lot of other things. My question got buried under forty other messages.
Before you go
Read the box before the recording, and think of other ways to say each comment.
The questions follow the conversation. The comments in the box come in any order.
When one speaker suggests something, wait for the others. A comment that is rejected is the trap.
Rule out each comment once you have used it. In a set like this, two are left over.
Next: The next lesson is Speaking Part 3, where you give and support your own opinions about technology in daily life.