A2 Flyers Listening Part 1
A2 Flyers Listening Part 1
A2 Flyers Listening Part 1
Description
This lesson plan has been designed to help students prepare for A2 Flyers Listening Part 1. This
lesson plan can be delivered face to face or online. The ‘online options’ column gives teachers ideas
about how the stages could be adapted for teaching online.
In this lesson students work through a series of stages in which they describe and respond to
descriptions of people. Completing the A2 Flyers Listening Part 1 activity builds familiarity with the
exam text and task.
Time required:
Materials Handout 1 – Meet the Flyers
required:
Handout 2 – A2 Flyers Listening Part 1
Audio recording – A2 Flyers Listening Part 1 exam
https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/images/flyers-sample-
listening-2018.mp3
Guess who? – https://poki.com/en/g/guess-who
The A2 Flyers Listening Sample Paper and transcript can be
downloaded from:
https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/Images/young-learners-
sample-papers-2018-vol1.pdf
Procedure:
1
Meet the Flyers: Vocabulary challenge
Put students into groups containing a mixture of
ability levels.
Display the picture at the top of Handout 1 so
Use your platform’s whiteboard to display
everyone can see it. Ask what is pictured: students
the picture.
at school/college.
If students can draw on your whiteboard
Tell the groups they will have a competition: they
then you could name items from the
must list as many things as possible that are a
picture and choose students to race to find
certain colour.
them on the picture.
Start competition, with ‘blue’. After a minute:
Otherwise ask students to write the name
• Tell groups to count the number of items they of objects that are the specified colour, in
listed. the chat.
• Ask a student from the highest-scoring group
to point to their answers on the Handout 1 (to
check answers)
• Award points to teams.
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f) Helen is picking up her sock. (False)
g) Emma is talking to Robert. (False)
h) William is carrying a book. (True)
i) Harry has something strange in his pocket.
(True)
j) The teacher looks angry. (False)
3
Speaking and writing (optional extension task)
Ask students to describe William. For example: This activity can be completed individually
– either during the class or as homework.
• William is wearing a brown hat.
• William is sitting. Ask parents to send you their child’s
• William has grey hair. True/False statements. Add them all to a
shared online document
Highlight that these are all true. Ask students to (https://padlet.com/ for example).
change them so they are false. For example:
When complete (you may need to correct
• William is wearing pink striped tights. their writing a little), share the link and ask
• William is playing volleyball. Etc. students to try and complete each other’s
activities by identifying which sentences
Give each group a sheet of paper. Ask them to write are true/false and making corrections.
10 sentences describing the picture in Handout 2 (or
as many as possible within a time limit). Some
should be true, others false.
Ask groups to swap pictures and descriptions.
Groups work to identify the true sentences and
correct the false ones.
Guess who? (optional extension task) Using the link, open Guess Who? on your
screen. Screen share on your platform.
Open Guess Who? on a screen that can be seen by
all students. Demonstrate play, asking students to
suggest questions and responses at each
2. Demonstrate how to play, asking students to
stage.
suggest questions and responses at each stage.
Share the Guess who? link and prompt
3. Share the Guess who? link with students, if you
them to play independently until winning
have access to safe devices in the classroom,
at least 3 games in a row.
challenging them to play until winning at least 3
games in a row. Otherwise tell them this is
something they can play at home.
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Handout 1 | Meet the Flyers
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Handout 2 | A2 Flyers Listening Part 1
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Answers: Handout 1 | Meet the Flyers
Read the descriptions to students:
Richard
George
David
Helen
Harry
Katy Sarah
Holly
Michael
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Answers: Handout 2 | A2 Flyers Listening Part 1