{listening} Multiple choice

In the multiple choice questions you are given a number of alternatives to choose from. Only one of them is correct according to the information given in the listening passage.

This kind of questin is used with many different types of passage and its main purposes are:

• to see if you can pick out important details in the passage
• to see if you have understood the overall message of the passage

Read the alternatives carefully before start listening. As with blank filling questions, there is a lot to read and it is better not to have to much 'new' reading while you are listening.

The content of the questions will also help you by giving you a very good idea of the topic of the listening passage before you hear it.

Be very careful while you are listening because you will probably hear in the passage words and phrases which you have already seen in the alternatives given on the question paper. Don't jump to conclusions and choose the answer just because it contains the words and phrases that you hear in the passage!

The robbers arrived at the bank

A in a car.     B by underground railway.     C by digging a tunnel.

You may hear something in the passage  about a car, but make sure that the car was actually used to travel to the bank in. It may have been a car parked somewhere else by the robbers, or a car that they intended to use for their escape (i. e. to travel away from the bank).



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source: Successful Listening for First Certificate by Shelagh Rixon, OUP, 1993