KS4 · French · Year 11
Contrôle d'écoute: extended listening (AQA)
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Your learning goal
I can confidently respond to exam-style listening comprehension questions.
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Contrôle d'écoute: extended listening (AQA): slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
Original teaching resources
The original illustrated PowerPoint is available as well as the IllumED text slides. It retains the publisher’s design and credits.
Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can confidently respond to exam-style listening comprehension questions.
Key learning points
- It is important to have a broad vocabulary to be successful at answering listening comprehension questions.
- It is important to listen out for synonyms and distractors when answering listening comprehension questions.
Words to know
- synonym
- word that has the same or very similar meaning of another word
- distractor
- incorrect but plausible answer option in reading and listening tasks, designed to test your attention to detail
Common mistakes
Answers in listening comprehension questions are usually obvious.
Listening comprehension passages do not always make answers obvious, often containing synonyms and distractors to test your attention to detail.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Task A3 could be delivered as a speaking or writing task depending on what would best benefit your students.

