Listening - Stories & Narratives

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Pre-Intermediate

The Inspector Calls
Description: A police inspector comes and speaks to the wife of a murder victim.
Language: Past simple to talk about sequence of past events.
Category: Stories & Narratives
Dialect: North American & British English | Length: 3m 00s | Listening Number: 2L5
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Listening Quiz 1 - The Inspector Calls

Listening Quiz 2 - The Inspector Calls 2

Images From The Past
Description: Three people talk about and describe old photos.
Language: Reminiscing, story telling, past simple.
Category: Stories & Narratives
Dialect: North American English & British English | Length: 3m 22s | Listening Number: 2L14
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Listening Quiz 1 - Images From The Past

Listening Quiz 2 - Images From The Past 2

Intermediate

Love Is In The Air
Description: Carolina talks about the great love story in her life.
Language: Subject/object questions, past simple describing narrative.
Category: Stories & Narratives
Dialect: British English & International English | Length: 3m 26s | Listening Number: 3L7
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Listening Quiz 1 - Love Is In The Air

Listening Quiz 2 - Love Is In The Air 2

Remembering A Life
Description: A woman talks about her father's life.
Language: Used To & Would to talk about past habits.
Category: Stories & Narratives
Dialect: North American English | Length: 3m 28s | Listening Number: 3L16
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Listening Quiz 1 - Remembering A Life

Listening Quiz 2 - Remembering A Life

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A Survival Story
Description: Listen to the exciting story of survival at sea, against all the odds.
Language: Sailor describes a terrifying survival ordeal in the Pacific Ocean.
Category: Stories & Narratives
Dialect: North American & British English | Length: 9m 53s | Listening Number: 4L4 | CEFR Level: C1/C2
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Listening Quiz 1 - A Survival Story

Listening Quiz 2 - A Survival Story 2

The Case Of The Missing Slice Of Cake
Description: Two teachers talk about the scandalous theft of cake at their school.
Language: Past modals of deduction.
Category: Stories & Narratives
Dialect: North American & British English | Length: 2m 51s | Listening Number: 4L13 | CEFR Level: B2
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Listening Quiz 1 - The Case Of The Missing Slice Of Cake

Listening Quiz 2 - The Case Of The Missing Slice Of Cake

Come Ye To These Shores
Description: A scary short story about pirates, shipwrecks and strange ships!
Language: Short story telling, narrative tenses, advanced vocabulary.
Category: Stories & Narratives
Dialect: British English | Length: 8m 38s | Listening Number: 4L16 | CEFR Level: C2
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Listening Quiz 1 - Come Ye To These Shores

Listening Quiz 2 - Come Ye To These Shores 2

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