Listen and follow

Listen and follow

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In this task you will listen to some instructions about a class trip to the zoo, draw a path on a map of the zoo, and answer questions about the trip.
Look carefully at the map below, and read the questions. You can ask questions before the instructions are read out.
Now look at the map while you listen to the instructions about a trip to the zoo.
At the end you will be asked to show the path that is described in the instructions, and to answer the other questions that follow.

Question Change answer

a) Draw a line with arrows to show the quickest way to follow the instructions.
    (This has been started for you.)
    Circle the four animals you have been asked to make notes on or sketches of.

Question 1Change answer

b) What day is the trip? MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturdaySunday
 
c) What time do we meet?  a.m.
 
d) What is the cost? $ 

Question 2Change answer

e) What buses can you catch?  or 
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online.
  • Give students some time to look at the map and read carefully through the questions before beginning.
  • Read out the task instructions while students look at the map.
  • Either read the script aloud to the students or play them the audio file. 
The Zoo

Task instructions (teacher to read out loud):

Look carefully at the map, then read through the questions.  Do you have any questions?
 
Now listen to these instructions about a class trip to the zoo. Look at the map while you listen to the instructions.
At the end, draw the path in the instructions on the map, then answer the other questions.
 
Read the script:
 
All right class,
On Friday we are going on a school trip to the zoo. We have a lot to do, so listen to your tasks and instructions carefully.
We will meet at the entrance to the zoo at 9:30 a.m. You can catch the number 15 or number 26 bus, which go directly to the zoo. It costs ten dollars to get in. The zoo is huge and we will only have time to see animals that we are studying for our projects. I want you to walk through the zoo, passing the monkey, the lion, and the chimpanzee enclosures, to the Education Centre where we will listen to a talk given by zoo staff. After that we will go to the nocturnal house. In there, I want you to take notes on the brown kiwi and native bats. We will then walk to the rainforest and make sketches of the ruffed lemurs and the native ducks in the lake. Then we will all meet in the zoo shop at twelve o'clock before getting on the bus to go back to school for lunch.
Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
English, Making meaning, Listening
Keywords: 
listening comprehension, factual comprehension, instructions
Description of task: 
Students listen to instructions on where to go when visiting the zoo, then draw the path on a map. The assessment focus is on listening, recalling, and following instructions.
Answers/responses: 
a) Route correctly shown with arrows. Circles around: native bats, brown kiwi, ruffed lemurs, and native ducks.
b) Friday
c) 9:30 a.m.
d) $10.00
e) 15 or 26


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Acknowledgements
Every effort has been made to find the source of the map used in this resource.