Chocolate Fish
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This task is about listening and recalling information.
Listen to the text and answer the questions.
Task administration:
This task can be completed by pencil and paper or online (with auto-marking).
In order to follow the same procedure as the resource trial and thereby ensure the reliability of the difficulty estimates, we suggest you follow these instructions.
- Hand out the student sheets which should be turned upside down until you have finished reading the passage.
- Say: "This is a test of your listening skills. I will read the passage and then you will answer questions about it. Listen carefully."
- Read the introduction and passage. (Please note the suggested reading time of the text is 1 minute, 15 seconds).
- Say: "Now turn over your sheet. Listen to each question and circle the best possible answer. Circle only one answer per question. If you wish to change your answer, cross out your first answer and circle your new answer."
- Read out each question and set of options with an approximately 10 second gap between each question.
- Except in the case of a significant interruption, read each part of the passage and each question and its options only once.
Read to students
Everyone likes chocolate fish. But have you ever wondered how they are made? To find out, listen to this explanation.
Hot, freshly-cooked pink marshmallow is poured into fish-shaped trays and left to cool. Later, the trays are turned upsid-down on to a wire mesh and the fish in their hundreds jostle along to a conveyor belt. The marshmallow fish shuffle along in a moving line. Ahead lies their destiny – a mini-waterfall of warm, liquid chocolate. As they move through this chocolate curtain, the top of each marshmallow fish is coated a lovely brown.
But, how do they get the chocolate underneath the fish? Well, it's brilliantly simple.
Immediately after the chocolate waterfall, the conveyor belt runs over a small bump. The head of each fish rises up and the chocolate flows under and around it. Then as the head drops back the tail flops up and lo and behold – an instant all-over chocolate fish.
Row by row the fish are gently jiggled across on to a new, clean belt. The belt disappears into a cooling cabinet and, after about 10 minutes, out they flow, going forth to a grim future of chomping teeth and grinding jaws.
Text source: Unknown
Level:
4
Curriculum info:
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Description of task:
A short extract on how chocolate fish are made is the subject of this assessment on listening. It has 5 multiple-choice questions.
Answers/responses:
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Y8 (08/2000) |
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a) |
Hot marshmallow is poured into special trays. |
very easy |
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b) |
They are coated underneath. |
easy |
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c) |
They are tilted up and down so that the chocolate flows under them. |
very easy |
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d) |
10 minutes |
easy |
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e) |
eaten. |
very easy |
Acknowledgements
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