GESE 7 Village and City Life Listening

GESE 7 Village and City Life Listening

In this download, there is an independent listening task to help Grade 7 students prepare for the GESE 7 Village and City Life conversation area and the GESE Grade 7 in general. It provides lots of good vocabulary and language of the grade and is a good way to reinforce the lexis of villages and cities. The listening is about the advantages and disadvantages of studying in a small town or big city university, so it’s a good springboard to further discussion.

How to use the GESE 7 Village and City Life Listening

There are several ways you can use this resource. You could just use it as a listening exercise to help improve students listening skills. Ask students to listen once to find the gist of the listening. Then they listen and take notes about what they hear and report back the advantages of studying in a small town or big city university that the speaker mentions.

Alternatively, you could get students to work in pairs and make notes while they listen. When they have listened twice, they work together to try and rebuild the text, as close to the original as possible. This is called a dictagloss activity and it helps students with their sentence formation and with reinforcing the language of the grade. You should probably do this with only a small section of the listening, perhaps after doing the listening task above.

You can also use the text as a springboard for discussion. After reporting the advantages of big city and small town universities, ask the students to discuss their own opinions and where they would rather study.

We hope you like this listening text. The download below contains the listening in an mp3 file and a pdf with the audio script and the answer key. Click on the red button to download.

File: GESE 7 Village and City Life Listening

Why not try our other GESE 7 resources? There are conversation question cards, vocabulary mind maps and reading/writing lessons for the different conversation areas.