Assessing Listening

Practical tips on how to engage and motivate students
whether you are teaching online or offline

Listening tests – tips for teachers

In this blog post, teacher trainer Annie Broadhead offers tips to help students listen for key information and clues that will help them succeed in their listening tests.
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The online experience

Preparing your students online for Listening papers in Cambridge English Qualifications

This webinar will take you through lesson ideas to develop your students’ Listening skills and help them prepare for their A2 Key, B1 Preliminary and B2 First for Schools exams. It will cover how to deliver your exam lessons online as well as show you free resources you can use with your students while they are home.
60min

Assessing reading and listening online

This webinar looks into the most effective ways of assessing your students' Reading and Listening skills online. We will take you through practical ideas to evaluate your students' progress and look at how you can provide meaningful feedback to motivate your learners.
60min

Listening tests

Listening at C1 and C2 webinar

This webinar looks at the Listening paper from C1 Advanced and C2 Proficienc, the subskills being tested in each paper, and some approaches to practising and assessing these in the class, online, as well as some materials for students to prepare autonomously.
55min

Revising the A2 Key and B1 Preliminary Listening exam

A review of the research behind the 2020 updates to our A2 Key and B1 Preliminary listening papers, and a quick summary of the changes.

Understanding listening assessment

Understanding listening assessment: what every teacher should know

What makes a skilled listener? How does listening differ from reading? How does accent impact listening? This webinar addresses those (and other) questions and focuses on various aspects of assessing listening such as cognitive and contextual factors affecting listening, variety of accents, linguistic resources and text and task purpose.
55min

Using active listening skills to improve listening comprehension

A webinar on using active listening skills to improve listening comprehension in expository discussions.
40min

Second language listening: where are we?

An overview of state-of-the art research on the teaching and assessment of listening skills.

Getting students to listen in a
more focused way

Dr. Herbert Puchta goes over three activities
to help teenage learners focus their
attention on listening.

Developing skills

A guide for teachers. A2 Key

A guide for teachers with lots of practical tips and real examples to help teachers to develop their learners’ listening skills in preparation for our A2 Key for Schools qualification.

A guide for teachers. B1 Preliminary

A guide for teachers with lots of practical tips and real examples to help teachers to develop their learners’ listening skills in preparation for our B1 Preliminary for Schools qualification.

A guide for teachers. B2 First for schools

A guide for teachers with lots of practical tips and real examples to help teachers to develop their learners’ listening skills in preparation for our B2 First for Schools qualification.

A guide for teachers. C1 Advanced

A guide for teachers with lots of practical tips and real examples to help teachers to develop their learners’ listening skills in preparation for our C1 Advanced qualification.

A guide for teachers. C2 Proficiency

A guide for teachers with lots of practical tips and real examples to help teachers to develop their learners’ listening skills in preparation for our C2 Proficiency qualification.

Developing listening skills for Cambridge English Qualifications: A guide for teachers

This webinar introduces the new Teacher Guides for developing listening skills.

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