FCE Listening
Requires you to be able to follow and understand a range of spoken materials, such as news programs, presentations and everyday conversations.
Requires you to be able to follow and understand a range of spoken materials, such as news programs, presentations and everyday conversations.
Time allowed: About 40 minutes
Number of parts: 4
Number of questions: 30
Marks: 20% total
Recordings may be from: Monologues: answer phone messages, radio broadcasts and features, news, public announcements, stories and anecdotes, lectures and talks; or interacting speakers: conversations, interviews, discussions, radio plays.
What do I have to practise? Listening for feeling, attitude, opinion, purpose, function, agreement, gist and detail; listening for specific information, stated opinion ; listening for gist, attitude, opinion, purpose, feeling, main points and detail; listening for attitude, opinion, detail, gist, main idea and specific information.
Useful links to practice listening:
Useful links to practice listening:
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pc9wq/episodes/downloads
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pc9xz/episodes/downloads
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05hw4bq/episodes/downloads
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english
- https://www.podcastsinenglish.com/pages1/level2.shtml
- https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/word-street
- https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510298/ted-radio-hour
- https://gimletmedia.com/