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Testing Listening and Speaking Skills

Listening test

Listen to the song and tick ( ) the right words. Write the words in the blanks below.

Life is like a mountain railroad

With an engineer thats brave

We must make the _(1)_________________ successful

From the cradle to the grave

Watch the _(2)________________________, the fills, the tunnels

Never falter, never _(3)_____________________

Keep your _(4)_____________________ upon the throttle, and

Your eye upon the _(5)______________________.

Chorus

Blessed Saviour, thou wilt guide us

Till we reach that _(6)_______________________ shore

Where the _(7)_____________________ wait to join us

In thy praise forever more.

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Listen to the song and tick ( ) the right words for each blank.

No.

1 monk run lung

2 curves hurts surfs

3 hail sail fail

4 aunt hand gang

5 rail road jail

6 crystal blissful fistful

7 bangles hangers angels

8. Which words mean the whole life?

9. Which word means similar to?

10. Which word is the opposite of fearful?

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The song and answers to the questions.

Life is like a mountain railroad

With an engineer thats brave

We must make the _(1)___run_______ successful

From the cradle to the grave

Watch the _(2)_____curves______, the fills, the tunnels

Never falter, never _(3)_____fail______

Keep your _(4)______hand_______ upon the throttle, and

Your eye upon the _(5)_____rail_________.

Chorus

Blessed Saviour, thou wilt guide us

Till we reach that _(6)___blissful

______ shore

Where the _(7)_____angels______ wait to join us

In thy praise forever more.

8. Which words mean the whole life?

the cradle to the grave

9. Which word means similar to?

like (like a mountain railroad), used as a preposition

10. Which word is the opposite of fearful?

brave

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You intend to use the following stimulus for a listening test for a Year 2 class.

Discuss its suitability and how you would use the stimulus for a listening test. Illustrate your

answer with examples from the stimulus.

Stimulus

Source: Active Listening by R.R. Jordan (1984)

Which story would you use for the listening test? Justify your choice.

Story 1

His window looked out on the market-place. The bazaar was busy and colourful, fruit sellers and

cloth-merchants and bangle-makers displaying their wares on the pavements. The humbler trades-

people made their way through the crowds, and their voices shouting their wares, rose harshly in

the air. Amongst these voices, the king could distinguish one clear and musicalcalling Mangoes!

Wholl buy my mangoes?

The voice pleased him, and the kings gaze roved over the crowd until he found its owner Sujata,

the daughter of a poor fruit-vendor, who was busy plying her trade.

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Story 2

A golfer was standing in the fairway, about 140 yards out, when a frog whispered from the rough,

Use an 8-iron. The golfer, deep in concentration, pulled out his 8-iron and hit the shot. It rolled

right into the cup for an eagle. Now take me to Las Vegas, said the frog.

What? said the startled golfer, suddenly realizing it was a talking frog.

You heard me, repeated the frog, take me to Las Vegas. Im obviously a lucky frog, and well make

a bundle!

So the golfer picked up the frog, and they flew to Las Vegas. In the casino, the frog whispered, Go to

the dice table and bet everything on the pass line.

The shooter rolled a seven, and the man with the frog won $100,000.00. Then the guy took the frog

upstairs to his room and the frog said, Kiss me.

When he did, it turned into the most beautiful girl hed ever seen deep brown eyes, blond hair,

beautiful smile and sixteen years old.

And I swear, Your Honour, thats how she got in my room.

Source: Argus Hamilton in Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoma (RD Dec 1996)

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Speaking test

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Banff, Alberta, Canada

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In this photo taken on Feb. 22, 2012, the worn foot of an Indian squatter

is seen on a rented cot at Park No. 2 near Jama Masjid in New Delhi,

India, early in the morning. For thousands of people struggling at the

bottom of India's working class, the Meena Bazaar parking lot and the

handful of places like it scattered across New Delhi are cheap refuges in

a city where many migrants can't even afford to rent slum shanties. (AP

Photo/Kevin Frayer)