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How I Saved Somebody's Life
An Audio Story

Activities for
Additional Listening Comprehension and Grammar Practice
 

The type of activity below, a cross between a dictation and a "cloze" procedure, is a  great activity to improve your listening comprehension,  grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

  1. First, listen to the whole story
     

  2. Listen to the whole story a second time.
     

  3. Now, listen to the special cloze version, in which we leave selected words blank.  Every time you hear the sound of the bell, a word will be missing and the bell will be in its place.  What word fits there?  If you are online and can get a paper and pencil, write your answer and check below to see if you are correct.   Check the verb, the verb tense and verb form, and spelling.  If you do not have a pencil and paper available, you can still participate in the activity.  Do you have our pencil and paper ready?  Then you are ready to listen to the special cloze version.

    You can repeat this step if you'd like, until you are ready to check your answers.

    More advanced listeners can use the whole story as a dictation.  Simply click on the pause button on your audio player whenever you want to stop and write.
     

  4. Finally, to listen to the full story again,  click here


Answers:

who
train station
men
sound
closer
think
quickly

 

Sounds courtesy of freesound.iua.upf.edu, Corsica_S, Creative Commons license
 

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