Part 2 multiple choice: a briefing before a coastal walk
You can keep up with a Part 2 talk and choose the option the speaker settles on, even when all three are mentioned.
Part 2 of the Listening test is one person talking in an everyday situation, and you hear it once. Here it is a guide briefing a group before a day's walk along the coast.
The multiple choice questions give three options each, and the guide mentions most of them. What you are listening for is the one she settles on.
Warm-up
Where to get a hot drink
Play the announcement once. All three options are mentioned, so listen for the one that answers the question.
Clip 1: on the ferry
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In the exam you hear this once. Here you may play it again after you have tried.
Where can passengers get a hot drink on board?
How it works
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
- 11Why will the walk start later than planned?
- AThe minibus has been delayed.
- BThe tide is too high on the first part of the route.
- CSome walkers are still collecting equipment.
- 12What does the guide say about lunch?
- AIt is included in the price of the walk.
- BWalkers can buy it at a café on the route.
- CWalkers need to bring their own.
- 13Which item must every walker have?
- Awalking poles
- Bsun cream
- Ca waterproof jacket
- 14Walkers who want to stop halfway should
- Aphone the tour office.
- Btell the guide at the harbour.
- Cwait for the minibus at the lighthouse.
- 15Where are walkers most likely to see seals?
- Afrom the lighthouse
- Bon the beach at low tide
- Cfrom the cliff path above the harbour
- 16At the end of the walk, the group will
- Acatch a bus back to town.
- Bwalk back along the beach.
- Cbe driven back to the car park.
Part 2 is questions 11 to 20. The questions follow the order of the talk.
The method
- 1Read the stems first
There is reading time before each part begins. Find the key idea in each stem: later, lunch, every walker. You will hear that idea, usually in other words.
- 2Expect to hear the options
The speaker often mentions every option. Hearing a word from an option tells you nothing yet.
- 3Wait for the speaker to settle
Options get dropped with phrases like that's up to you or it closed last year. Choose the option the speaker ends on.
- 4Keep up with the stems
When you hear the idea of the next stem, the last answer has gone by. Choose and move on.
- 5Answer as you listen
Click your letter while the recording plays, because you hear it only once. There is a little time to check after each part, and 2 minutes at the end to check all your answers.
Question 11: the late start
Question 11 is yours to try. You get one hearing of the clip, the same as in the exam. Choose, then read how I worked it out.
Clip 2: the start time
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In the exam you hear this once. Here you may play it again after you have tried.
Why will the walk start later than planned?
Watch me do one
Question 11 asks why the start is later. The key word is later, so I know I'm listening for a reason.
First she gives the change: the leaflet says nine, but they'll be setting off at half past ten. The reason should come next.
It's not the minibus. That's here. So A is out. She mentions it only to rule it out.
Then the two people collecting boots will be back any minute. She never says the group is waiting for them, so C is out too.
The problem is the tide. The beach is under water, and the answer is B. Here the answer came last, after both wrong options had been dropped.
Practice with Elita5 questions
Five more questions, one clip for each. The briefing carries on where it stopped, so play each clip once and choose.
Question 12: lunch
Play the clip once, and listen to the end of what she says about lunch.
Clip 3: lunch
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In the exam you hear this once. Here you may play it again after you have tried.
What does the guide say about lunch?
Question 13: what to carry
Play the clip once. The stem says must, so listen for what is required and what is only advice.
Clip 4: what to carry
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In the exam you hear this once. Here you may play it again after you have tried.
Which item must every walker have?
Question 14: stopping early
Play the clip once. This stem is half a sentence, and each option finishes it.
Clip 5: stopping early
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In the exam you hear this once. Here you may play it again after you have tried.
Walkers who want to stop halfway should
Question 15: the seals
Play the clip once. The stem asks where seals are most likely, so listen for the best place.
Clip 6: the seals
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In the exam you hear this once. Here you may play it again after you have tried.
Where are walkers most likely to see seals?
Question 16: getting home
Play the clip once. Two ways home are ruled out before the answer comes.
Clip 7: getting home
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In the exam you hear this once. Here you may play it again after you have tried.
At the end of the walk, the group will
Words to keep
Start a trip or a walk. We'll be setting off at half past ten.
The sea moving in towards the land and back out again, every day. When the tide is in, the beach is under water.
High land that sticks out into the sea. Out on the headland the weather can change fast.
Your choice. Walking poles are up to you.
An extra one, kept in case someone needs it. There are spare jackets in the minibus.
Bother or upset, often by getting too close. Watch the seals from the path so you don't disturb them.
Before you go
Read each stem before the recording and pick out the idea you will listen for.
Expect to hear most of the options. Choose the one the speaker settles on.
Notice the phrases that drop an option, such as up to you and it closed last year.
Keep up with the order of the questions. If an answer goes past you, guess and move your eyes to the next stem.
Next: In the next lesson you plan and tell a Speaking Part 2 story, about a trip where something went wrong.