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Question: What types of questions can one develop for a listening activity
apart from short-answer and True/False questions?

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Here are some listening comprehension type items that I have used with level
1 Spanish:
1. Pictures of clothing or school supplies, each with a price tag. The
student hears the name of the item "el bolĂ­grafo" and the price "treinta y cinco
pesos" and has to write the number on the correct price tag. (They need to
understand the vocabulary and the numbers.) I always have more pictures
than questions.
2. Helping a person fill out a form: I have used "missing person" - the
person reporting only speaks the TL and the police only speaks English so
you (the student) have to help out by listening in French and completing the
form in English. Items could include spelling of the name, age, hair/eye color,
when and where last seen, description of clothing.
3. Question/rejoinder: Students listen to a question in TL and then an
answer. Student must decide if the answers is appropriate for the question.
ex: Where are you going? I'm going at 6 o'clock. - inappropriate response.

Tate, S. Re: Questions types for Listening Test. Foreign Language Teaching
Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (20 Aug. 2004).

How about these ideas?

1. Select the picture that most closely resembles what is being talked about.
2. Follow the directions from one place to another.
3. Sketch the family tree.
4. Choose the clock with the correct time.

Norman, C. Re: Questions types for Listening Test. Foreign Language
Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (20 Aug.
2004).
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