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Year 10 Listening Tasks
Description of exercise
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Métro 4 Rouge Module 1

Déjà vu

1: Listening for classroom language
2: Identifying classroom equipment
3: Interview about the school day in France
4: Listening for subjects, opinions and reasons
5: Listening for use of 'depuis' with subjects
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Page 6 Ex 2a
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Page 7 Ex 5a
Page 8 Ex 5d
Unit 1 Mon collège
1: Listening for physical descriptions of a school
2: Listening to young people talking about their favourite club
    - note details about the club
Page 10 Ex 1b
Page 11 Ex 4a
Unit 2 Les préférences
1: Listening for subjects with opinions and reasons
2: More practice of listening for subjects, opinions and reasons
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Page 12 Ex 3a
Unit 3 Le règlement
1: Listening for opinions of school rules
2: Listening to whether the young people are for or against uniform
3: Listening for advantages and disadvantages of uniform
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Page 14 Ex 3a
Page 15 Ex 3b
Unit 4 Le collège - beurk!
1: Song about school life
2: Listening for students' views of education - make notes
Page 16 Ex 1a
Page 17 Ex 3
Unit 5 Après le collège
1: What do these young people plan to do when they leave school?
2: What are marc's future plans? Note his ideas.
Page 18 Ex 1a
Page 18 Ex 2a

Métro 4 Rouge Module 2

Déjà vu
1: Note the birthday and age of these people
2: Copy and complete the grid of personal descriptions
3: More practice listening for personal description
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Page 26 Ex 4b
Page 26 Ex 5a
Unit 1 Comment êtes-vous?
1: Listening for adjectives about people
2: Decide if the personality traits are positive or negative
3: More listening to descriptions of people
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Page 28 Ex 2a
Page 28 Ex 2b
Unit 2 Les problèmes
1: Are the people happy or unhappy and why?
2: Listening to agony aunt letters
3: Listening to people describing family life with opinions
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Page 31 Ex 2a
Page 31 Ex 3a
Unit 3 Les qualités
1: Listening to descriptions of friends
2: Listen to Rachid talk about his relationship with friends
3: Note these peoples' opinions of marriage
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Page 32 Ex 2a
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Unit 4 Aider à la maison
1: What do these people do to help at home?
2: Why do they help around the home?
3: What must this au pair do each day of the week?
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Page 34 Ex 1b
Page 34 Ex 2b
Métro 4 Rouge Module 3
Déjà vu

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Page 42 Ex 4b
Unit 1 Au cinéma
1: Listen to the cinema review and note down the details about each film
2: Write down the time and the sport
3: Note down the details for each activity
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Page 45 Ex 4b
Unit 2 Les opinions
1: Decide whether the speaker likes or doesn't like the activity
2: Reasons for hobbies - write down as many as possible
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Unit 3 On prend rendez-vous...
1: Write down opening hours, attractions and prices
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Unit 4 Les rencontres

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Page 51 Ex 4b
Unit 5 Le week-end dernier

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Page 53 Ex 4
Métro 4 Rouge Module 5
Déja vu

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Page 78 Ex 3b
Unit 1 Voici ma ville
1: Write down details about where the person lives
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Unit 2 La ville et la campagne
1: Town or country? Which do they prefer and why?
2: Try to write down the phrases you hear.
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Page 83 Ex 2a
Unit 3 Les pays francophones

Page 85 Ex 2
Unit 4 L'environnement

Page 86 Ex 1a
Métro 4 Rouge Module 4
Déjà vu
1: Note the relationship and the job.
2: Listen to the description and decide which job the person does.
3: Write down the details from the CV.
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Page 58 Ex 1c
Page 60 Ex 2c
Unit 1 Avez-vous un job?
1: Write down details about the jobs done including times, journey, pay and opinions.
2: Note details about the speaker's work experience.
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Page 62 Ex 1c
Unit 2 La communication
1: Write down the phone numbers given.
2: Write down the details for the 5 telephone messages.
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Page 64 Ex 3a
Unit 3 Qu'est-ce que vous voulez faire dans la vie?
1: Note details about the 4 speakers future career plans.
2: Try to transcribe the passage.
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Page 67 Ex 4b
Unit 4 Les différents emplois

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Page 69 Ex 2
Unit 5 Le monde du travail

Page 70 Ex 1a
Métro 4 Rouge Module 6
Déjà vu

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Page 93 Ex 2c
Page 94 Ex 3a
Unit 1 On fait des achats

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Unit 2 Les fringues

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Unit 3 L'argent de poche

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Unit 4 A la poste et à la banque

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Page 103 Ex 4
Unit 5 Je suis perdue!

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Year 11 Listening Tasks
Description of exercise
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Métro 4 Rouge Module 7

Déjà vu
1: Note the prefered country
2: Listen to the weather forecast and note the weather
Page 110 Ex 1d
Page 111 Ex 2a
Unit 1 Souvenirs de vacances
1: Listen for details of someone's holiday - Complete the table
Page 114 Ex 1a
Unit 2 Au syndicat d'initiative
1: Listen for the activities and note details about them
2: Listen to a conversation in a tourist information office
3: Listen to a description of Royan - a tourist resort
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Page 116 Ex 2a
Page 117 Ex 3
Unit 3 Découverte vacances
1: Listen to the kind of holiday the speaker likes and note why
2: Decide if the phrases about holidays are true of false
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Page 119 Ex 3
Unit 4 L'hébergement
1: Listen to the conversation booking in to accomodation
2: Note what is requested with the accomodation
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Page 120 Ex 1b
Unit 5 Les problèmes
1: Note down the complaints made about the accomodation
Page 122 Ex 1b
Métro 4 Rouge Module 8
Déjà vu
1: Listen to the conversation settling in to a family.
2: Listen to the descriptions of houses and make notes on where they are and what the speaker likes or dislikes about them.
3: Listen to the descriptions of houses and note the details about them.
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Unit 1 Voici ma maison
1: Listen to descriptions of rooms and note details.
2:Listen to young peoples' home lives and note details.
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Page 132 Ex 2a/b
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Unit 2 Les médias
1: Listen to the descriptions of media and note the type, the hero/heroine and the speaker's opinion.
2: Films: Note the type and the speaker's opinions.
Page 134 Ex 1a
Page 135 Ex 4a
Unit 3 La télé et la publicité

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Métro 4 Rouge Module 9
Déjà vu

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Page 149 Ex 4a
Unit 1 La cuisine et les habitudes
1: Write down what the young people think of school food.
2: Write down what they like to eat and why.
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Page 150 Ex 2a
Unit 2 Avez-vous la pêche?
1: Identify the sort and function of the food type
2: Listen to the meals eaten in a day - healthy or unhealthy?
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Page 152 Ex 1c
Unit 3 Vivre sainement
1: Note details about healthy eating.
Page 154 Ex 1a
Unit 4 Ça ne va pas
1: Note down the problem and the suggested cure.
2: At the doctors: note the problem, appointment time and other details.
3: Note the symptoms and the opinion of the doctor.
4: Listen to the conversation after an accident.
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Page 157 Ex 2
Page 157 Ex 3c
Page 157 Ex 4
Unit 5 La dépendance
1: Listen to and note the opinions of the young people about addiction.
2: What are these adverts about?
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Page 159 Ex 2a
Métro 4 Rouge Module 10
Déjà vu
1: Note the transport type and the length of journey.
2: Note the directions to which building.
3: Note the directions to which building.
4: Listen to the conversations asking for directions and note the details.
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Page 164 Ex 2a
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Page 166 Ex 4a
Unit 1 Pardon, madame ...
1: Take notes about the precise directions.
2: Practise pronunciation in the dialogue asking for directions.
3: Note the destination, transport, length of travel and price of these holidays.
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Unit 2 À la gare et ailleurs
1: Note what each person is looking for and where it is.
2: Listen to the conversation buying a train ticket.
3: Note down what the situation is from the conversation you hear.
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Page 170 Ex 2a
Page 171 Ex 4
Unit 3 Les problèmes
1: Note the problem, where it takes place and other details.
Page 173 Ex 3
Unit 4 Trop de voitures?
1: Note what problems are being talked about.
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