Please keep at least one language enabled. || కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
A teacher plays an English recording several times while learners simply sit and listen, but gives them no purpose or response task. Which change would best turn the activity into listening-comprehension practice?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Listening comprehension requires learners to process spoken language for meaning rather than merely be exposed to sound.
• A clear listening purpose focuses attention on information that learners need to understand.
• An appropriate response gives evidence of comprehension, whereas greater volume or length alone does not.
• A clear listening purpose focuses attention on information that learners need to understand.
• An appropriate response gives evidence of comprehension, whereas greater volume or length alone does not.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Before learners hear a short conversation about booking a train ticket, which pre-listening activity is most appropriate?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Pre-listening work can activate relevant prior knowledge and create useful expectations about the content.
• Prediction gives learners a reason to listen because they can confirm or revise what they expected.
• Giving away the complete text or trying to pre-teach every word can remove much of the genuine comprehension work.
• Prediction gives learners a reason to listen because they can confirm or revise what they expected.
• Giving away the complete text or trying to pre-teach every word can remove much of the genuine comprehension work.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Learners are going to hear a two-minute talk for the first time. The teacher's immediate objective is general understanding. Which task is best aligned with that objective?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Listening for gist focuses on the overall topic or main message rather than every detail.
• A main-idea choice directs learners toward global comprehension during the first listening.
• Detailed note-taking, transcription, and grammatical analysis demand a different and much narrower focus.
• A main-idea choice directs learners toward global comprehension during the first listening.
• Detailed note-taking, transcription, and grammatical analysis demand a different and much narrower focus.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
After learners have understood the gist of an announcement, the teacher wants them to listen again for specific information. Which task is most suitable?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A second listening can focus attention on specific details after learners have established the overall context.
• Times and platform numbers are concrete pieces of information that require careful listening for detail.
• Prediction is normally more useful before or during initial processing, while unrelated discussion and copying do not assess the stated listening goal.
• Times and platform numbers are concrete pieces of information that require careful listening for detail.
• Prediction is normally more useful before or during initial processing, while unrelated discussion and copying do not assess the stated listening goal.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which activity is most appropriate as a post-listening task after learners have understood a short interview about reducing plastic waste?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Post-listening work can help learners consolidate and extend what they understood from the text.
• Summarising requires learners to identify important meaning, while discussion connects the listening with purposeful language use.
• Prediction belongs mainly before listening, and isolated unrelated sound practice does not integrate comprehension of the interview.
• Summarising requires learners to identify important meaning, while discussion connects the listening with purposeful language use.
• Prediction belongs mainly before listening, and isolated unrelated sound practice does not integrate comprehension of the interview.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
The objective is to check whether learners can understand a sequence of simple oral instructions. Which assessment provides the most direct evidence?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Carrying out spoken instructions demonstrates whether learners understood the meaning and sequence of what they heard.
• The assessment therefore measures listening comprehension directly through an appropriate non-written response.
• Definitions, copying, and grammar analysis assess other abilities rather than comprehension of oral instructions.
• The assessment therefore measures listening comprehension directly through an appropriate non-written response.
• Definitions, copying, and grammar analysis assess other abilities rather than comprehension of oral instructions.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Learners hear a conversation without being told who the speakers are. They use the language, situation, and tone to decide that one speaker is a customer and the other is a shop assistant. What listening ability are they mainly demonstrating?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Listeners often infer relationships, setting, purpose, and attitude from contextual and linguistic clues.
• Such inference involves constructing meaning beyond merely recognising individual words.
• Copying, counting words, or identifying punctuation does not capture this aspect of listening comprehension.
• Such inference involves constructing meaning beyond merely recognising individual words.
• Copying, counting words, or identifying punctuation does not capture this aspect of listening comprehension.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
A learner understands many words when reading them but fails to recognise the same familiar words in normal connected speech. Which teaching response most directly addresses the difficulty?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Knowing a word in print does not guarantee immediate recognition of that word in continuous speech.
• Bottom-up listening practice can help learners segment the speech stream and notice reductions, linking, and weak forms.
• The difficulty should therefore be diagnosed as a spoken-processing problem rather than automatically treated as lack of vocabulary knowledge.
• Bottom-up listening practice can help learners segment the speech stream and notice reductions, linking, and weak forms.
• The difficulty should therefore be diagnosed as a spoken-processing problem rather than automatically treated as lack of vocabulary knowledge.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
While listening to a story, a learner stops following the message whenever one unfamiliar word occurs. What strategy should the teacher encourage?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Effective listeners do not normally need to understand every word in order to construct the main meaning.
• Context, topic knowledge, and information that follows can help listeners infer or work around unfamiliar language.
• Stopping at every unknown item overloads attention and can cause the listener to miss subsequent information.
• Context, topic knowledge, and information that follows can help listeners infer or work around unfamiliar language.
• Stopping at every unknown item overloads attention and can cause the listener to miss subsequent information.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
A listening text contains three unfamiliar words, but only one is essential for understanding the task. What is the most appropriate pre-listening response?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Selective pre-teaching is useful when a word is likely to block learners from completing the listening task.
• Learners also need practice coping with some unfamiliar language through context and listening strategies.
• Teaching every word in advance can be unnecessary and may reduce the authentic comprehension challenge.
• Learners also need practice coping with some unfamiliar language through context and listening strategies.
• Teaching every word in advance can be unnecessary and may reduce the authentic comprehension challenge.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
During classroom listening practice, learners understand little on the first hearing and become discouraged. Which teacher response is most appropriate?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Listening can be cognitively demanding because spoken language is processed in real time.
• A progression from general understanding to more focused listening, with repetition where appropriate for teaching, can scaffold comprehension.
• Expecting complete first-hearing comprehension or replacing listening entirely with reading does not develop the target skill.
• A progression from general understanding to more focused listening, with repetition where appropriate for teaching, can scaffold comprehension.
• Expecting complete first-hearing comprehension or replacing listening entirely with reading does not develop the target skill.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Learners listen to a short weather forecast because they need tomorrow's temperature and chance of rain. Which learner response best shows purposeful listening?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Listening is guided by purpose; listeners select information that is relevant to the task.
• Extracting temperature and rain information demonstrates listening for specific information.
• Memorising, grammatical counting, or full transcription would impose demands unrelated to the communicative purpose.
• Extracting temperature and rain information demonstrates listening for specific information.
• Memorising, grammatical counting, or full transcription would impose demands unrelated to the communicative purpose.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Why can a picture or title shown before a listening text be pedagogically useful?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Visual or contextual cues can activate knowledge that helps learners anticipate likely content and language.
• Predictions provide a framework that listeners can confirm or revise as they process the recording.
• Such support prepares comprehension but should not replace the need to listen to the actual text.
• Predictions provide a framework that listeners can confirm or revise as they process the recording.
• Such support prepares comprehension but should not replace the need to listen to the actual text.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Which activity best connects listening comprehension with a meaningful spoken response?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• An appropriate reply requires learners first to understand the purpose and requested information in the message.
• The task then integrates receptive listening with purposeful spoken production, as often happens in real communication.
• Copying, unrelated memorisation, or pre-listening grammar marking does not provide comparable evidence of meaningful listening.
• The task then integrates receptive listening with purposeful spoken production, as often happens in real communication.
• Copying, unrelated memorisation, or pre-listening grammar marking does not provide comparable evidence of meaningful listening.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Objective: “Learners will identify the main idea and two supporting details in a short spoken announcement.” Which assessment is best aligned with this objective?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The objective explicitly targets comprehension of spoken input, including both global and detailed understanding.
• A listening assessment should therefore require learners to obtain the main idea and details from an auditory text.
• Reading, spelling, or isolated pronunciation tasks would not directly measure the stated listening outcome.
• A listening assessment should therefore require learners to obtain the main idea and details from an auditory text.
• Reading, spelling, or isolated pronunciation tasks would not directly measure the stated listening outcome.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
A teacher wants to assess beginners' understanding of simple spoken directions without making limited writing ability a major barrier. Which response format is most suitable?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Marking a route can show comprehension of spoken directions without requiring extensive written production.
• This reduces the risk that weak writing, rather than weak listening, determines the assessment result.
• Essays, copying, and grammatical analysis introduce substantial abilities that are not central to the listening objective.
• This reduces the risk that weak writing, rather than weak listening, determines the assessment result.
• Essays, copying, and grammatical analysis introduce substantial abilities that are not central to the listening objective.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Learners repeatedly fail to recognise familiar expressions in a recording. How can a transcript be used most productively during teaching?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A transcript can be a diagnostic support after learners have first attempted to understand the spoken text.
• Comparing transcript and audio can reveal difficulties such as weak forms, linking, or failure to recognise known vocabulary in connected speech.
• Returning to the audio helps ensure that the support develops listening rather than replacing it with reading.
• Comparing transcript and audio can reveal difficulties such as weak forms, linking, or failure to recognise known vocabulary in connected speech.
• Returning to the audio helps ensure that the support develops listening rather than replacing it with reading.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
A teacher has one speaker for a class of fifty learners. Which plan makes the listening lesson more active and manageable?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A single audio source can still support whole-class listening when the task and classroom organisation are clear.
• Pair comparison encourages learners to review and justify what they heard and can prepare them for another focused listening.
• Listening development does not require individual headphones, and passive exposure without a comprehension purpose is less effective.
• Pair comparison encourages learners to review and justify what they heard and can prepare them for another focused listening.
• Listening development does not require individual headphones, and passive exposure without a comprehension purpose is less effective.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which statement best describes the relationship between top-down and bottom-up processing in effective listening?
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Explanation:
• Top-down processing draws on context, expectations, and prior knowledge to support interpretation.
• Bottom-up processing builds understanding from the incoming speech signal, including sounds, words, and linguistic patterns.
• Effective real-life listening typically combines both processes, with their relative importance changing according to purpose and difficulty.
• Bottom-up processing builds understanding from the incoming speech signal, including sounds, words, and linguistic patterns.
• Effective real-life listening typically combines both processes, with their relative importance changing according to purpose and difficulty.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which lesson sequence best develops listening comprehension rather than passive hearing?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Effective listening instruction gives learners a reason to process meaning at each stage rather than exposing them to sound passively.
• Pre-listening can prepare expectations, while-listening tasks guide comprehension, and post-listening work can consolidate or extend understanding.
• The sequence therefore develops active comprehension while still allowing listening tasks to vary according to level and purpose.
• Pre-listening can prepare expectations, while-listening tasks guide comprehension, and post-listening work can consolidate or extend understanding.
• The sequence therefore develops active comprehension while still allowing listening tasks to vary according to level and purpose.
వివరణ:
Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. Give learners a clear reason for listening, such as identifying the main idea or specific information, and require an appropriate response. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: C. Activate what they already know about ticket booking and ask them to predict the kinds of information they may hear. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: A. Choose the best statement of the talk's main idea. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: B. Note the departure time and platform number mentioned in the announcement. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: D. Ask learners to summarise the main suggestions and discuss which could be applied in their school. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: A. Give the instructions orally and ask learners to carry out the sequence correctly. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: B. Inferring contextual information from what they hear సమాధానం: B.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: C. Use focused listening activities that help learners notice word boundaries, weak forms, linking, and other features of connected speech. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: B. Keep listening for the main message and use context to infer or tolerate unknown items unless they are essential to understanding. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: A. Pre-teach the essential blocking word if needed and let learners use context to cope with the others. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. Use a manageable first task for general meaning, allow another purposeful listening for detail, and reassure learners that complete word-by-word understanding is not required. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: A. Writing down those two pieces of information while ignoring unrelated detail సమాధానం: A.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. It can activate relevant background knowledge and support predictions about what learners may hear. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: A. Learners listen to a voice message requesting two pieces of information and then record an appropriate reply containing them. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: B. Play a suitable unseen announcement and ask learners to identify its main idea and two details from what they hear. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: B. Ask learners to choose or mark the correct route on a simple map as they listen. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: B. Use it after initial listening to help learners locate what they missed, compare spoken and written forms, and then listen again without depending on the text. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: A. Play the recording with a clear task, let learners compare answers briefly in pairs, replay when pedagogically useful, and then check evidence from the audio. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: C. Listeners combine contextual and prior knowledge with decoding of sounds, words, and language patterns, with the balance varying according to the task. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: B. Prepare learners with a relevant context or prediction, set a clear first listening purpose, use a later listening for more focused information, and follow with a meaningful response or reflection. సమాధానం: B.