What aspects of listening are tested in the CPE Listening test?
The range of texts and task types reflects the variety of listening situations which you need to be able to cope with at this level. Variety of accents Recordings will contain a variety of accents corresponding to standard variants of native-speaker accent, and to non-native accents that approximate to the norms of native-speaker accents. Text types Texts vary in terms of length and interaction.Text types used include: interviews, discussions, conversations, talks, speeches, lectures, documentaries, instructions. Task types A variety of task types are used. These reflect the different reasons for, and focuses of, listening: understanding opinion, attitude, gist, detail, main idea, speaker’s purpose; gathering information about the speaker, the person being spoken to, the place or situation; inferring meaning, agreement and opinion.Three and four-option multiple-choice exercises, sentence completion and three-way matching are used.
