ISE Foundation Holidays Listening
In this download, you can find a listening activity to help your students prepare for the ISE Foundation independent listening task 1 and the Holidays subject area. The students listen to a description of a campsite and match the facilities to spaces on a map. There is an mp3 listening audio file and a PDF with the instructions, the map and the audio script.
How to use the ISE Foundation Holidays Listening Activity
You can use the listening activity in a number of different ways.
- You could do the activity exactly as it is on the handout just see to how well the students can understand the text or to practise for the ISE Foundation independent listening task 1. Then, you could go through the vocabulary and help students with their difficulties,
- Alternatively, you could first brainstorm with the students some of the facilities they might find on a campsite – swimming pool, showers, shops, etc. Then show them the map and ask them to name the facilities that are represented with icons at the bottom. After this, once the students are prepared, play the listening text and get them to match the facilities with the places on the map.
- Once you have finished the listening, ask students to make sentences about where things are in the campsite. This will revise describing places and review all the vocabulary again.
- You can also ask students to listen again and make notes about what they hear. Then, in pairs, they try to recreate the text and write it out. This is called a dictagloss activity and it can help students to write more accurately as they have to recreate the structures they hear on the audio.
- Finally, you can ask students to imagine that they stayed at this campsite on their last holiday. They can talk about what they did when they were there with their partner, asking and answering typical ‘holidays’ questions: Where did you go? What did you do? What was the weather like? etc. They could also imagine they are there now and write an informal letter to a friend describing the campsite and saying what they did yesterday.
Enjoy using the ISE Foundation Holidays Listening activity with your students and let us know in the comments how the class went!
You can download the auido mp3 file and the pdf instructions, map and audio script by clicking on the red button below :)
File: ISE Foundation Holidays Listening
Don’t forget to try our other ISE Foundation resources – there are conversation question cards for the different subject areas, vocabulary handouts, lesson plans and more… :)