The document outlines the specifications for the listening component of the CBSE Class XI exam, including timing, word count, topics, skills, and test tasks. It will assess students' understanding of a range of spoken English genres across familiar and unfamiliar topics in various domains. Students will listen to extracts, conversations, lectures, debates and complete matching, multiple choice, and sentence completion questions to demonstrate comprehending overall meaning, viewpoints, inferences, key points and details. Test passages will range from 80 to 500 words on topics like media, health, careers and involve both school-related and everyday subjects.
The document outlines the specifications for the listening component of the CBSE Class XI exam, including timing, word count, topics, skills, and test tasks. It will assess students' understanding of a range of spoken English genres across familiar and unfamiliar topics in various domains. Students will listen to extracts, conversations, lectures, debates and complete matching, multiple choice, and sentence completion questions to demonstrate comprehending overall meaning, viewpoints, inferences, key points and details. Test passages will range from 80 to 500 words on topics like media, health, careers and involve both school-related and everyday subjects.
The document outlines the specifications for the listening component of the CBSE Class XI exam, including timing, word count, topics, skills, and test tasks. It will assess students' understanding of a range of spoken English genres across familiar and unfamiliar topics in various domains. Students will listen to extracts, conversations, lectures, debates and complete matching, multiple choice, and sentence completion questions to demonstrate comprehending overall meaning, viewpoints, inferences, key points and details. Test passages will range from 80 to 500 words on topics like media, health, careers and involve both school-related and everyday subjects.
The document outlines the specifications for the listening component of the CBSE Class XI exam, including timing, word count, topics, skills, and test tasks. It will assess students' understanding of a range of spoken English genres across familiar and unfamiliar topics in various domains. Students will listen to extracts, conversations, lectures, debates and complete matching, multiple choice, and sentence completion questions to demonstrate comprehending overall meaning, viewpoints, inferences, key points and details. Test passages will range from 80 to 500 words on topics like media, health, careers and involve both school-related and everyday subjects.
Listening Class XI 4045minutes 20 items/20 marks 1,700 words
CBSE curriculum objectives: Understanding a range of genres and contexts of spoken English across the familiar & unfamiliar, concrete and abstract topicsin the academic, personal and social domains Topics: Media and networking, Health and fitness, Natural Resources, Business world, Ethics and values, The elderly, Urbanization, Adolescence, Inventors and inventions, Sports and sportsmanship, Careers, Art and aesthetics Grammar & language functions: as per classes IX & X but deeper understanding of different tense forms used or different kinds of narration in different genres CBSE skills objectives Task focus CEFR B2 Domain: academic, vocational, personal, social. Familiar & unfamiliar + abstract Text type Test tasks Item specifications topic, text length, item focus, domain To understand oral presentations across a range of topics Can identify speaker viewpoints & attitudes as well as information; Can understand TV news, documentaries & live interviews
Extracts of opinion on a single topic Short texts; monologues Informal/semi-formal Multiple matching 5 marks 5 items out of 7 multiple matching focus on opinions or purpose of speaker e.g. vox pop on news, tv/radio discussion, etc (non taboo) Text: 80 words x 5 = 400 words To draw inferences
Can understand propositions & linguistic complexity in concrete & abstract topics Can identify mood, tone, etc. Conversation on serious topic Informal dialogue Long text Multiple choice 6 marks 6 items: Multiple choicethree options Focus on inferences, attitudes, beliefs CBSE Assessment of Speaking and Listening (ASL) Specifcatons for Listening--Class XI 4
Text: 500 words Domain: school topics (serious), home, relationships, career counsellor To perceive the overall meaning and organisation of a text Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks & reports which are propositionally & linguistically complex Lecture, presentation or talk Formal Long text; monologue multi-choice: choose 4 out of 7 options 4 marks 7 items: statements4 true + 3 distractors 4 correct out of 7 multi-item Focus on ordering /cohesion
Text: 300 words Domain: on a school subject area, world issues, culture& values Identify the main points & supporting details Can follow extended speech and complex lines of argument Debate or seminar Formal/semi-formal Long text; dialogue Sentence completion 5 marks 5 gapped sentences focusing on key points in text or supporting detail Text: 500 words Domain: school/class debate or seminar on subject: issues e.g. environment , arts education vs science, vegetarianism, uniforms, mobile phones, etc.