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Integrated practice for listening for key information

You know the skills one at a time, and now the recording asks you to use them together without a pause.

This set mixes the four skills from listening for key information: picking the requested detail, hearing a correction, separating similar numbers and times, and reviewing with a transcript. The questions are original and run from easier to harder.

How should I use this set?

Each question has a transcript in French. The transcripts are here so that you can have them read aloud, or record yourself reading them, as in real practice.

  1. Ask a friend or family member to read the transcript once, or record it yourself and play it back with the page covered.
  2. Read the question in advance and predict the kind of answer.
  3. Write your answer and mark yourself sure, unsure or guess.
  4. Open the answer, then follow the routine in reviewing a missed detail.

Questions

1. Transcript: Bonjour, ici la boulangerie Dupont. Nous ouvrons à sept heures et nous fermons à dix-neuf heures. Question: À quelle heure ferme la boulangerie?

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The question asks for the closing time, so the key word is fermons. Dix-neuf heures is 19:00. Answer: 19:00 (7 p.m.). The seven o’clock is the opening time.

2. Transcript: Je m’appelle Inès et j’habite à Lyon avec mon frère. Mon sport préféré, c’est la natation. Question: Quel est le sport préféré d’Inès?

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Mon sport préféré gives the answer: la natation. Answer: swimming.

3. Transcript: Un billet de bus coûte deux euros cinquante, et la carte pour la semaine coûte quinze euros. Question: Combien coûte la carte pour la semaine?

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The label is la carte pour la semaine, followed by quinze euros. Answer: 15 euros. The 2.50 euros is a single ticket.

4. Transcript: Le cours de guitare est le mardi. Non, pardon, le jeudi à dix-sept heures. Question: Quel jour et à quelle heure est le cours de guitare?

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Non, pardon corrects the day from Tuesday to Thursday. Dix-sept heures is 17:00. Answer: Thursday at 17:00 (5 p.m.).

5. Transcript: Mon numéro de chambre est le soixante-dix-huit, au deuxième étage. Question: Quel est le numéro de la chambre, et à quel étage est-elle?

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Soixante-dix-huit is 60 + 18 = 78. Deuxième étage is the second floor. Answer: room 78, second floor.

6. Transcript: A: On mange au restaurant samedi? B: Samedi, je ne peux pas, j’ai un match. Dimanche midi, ça va? A: Oui, parfait. Au restaurant italien. Question: Quand et où mangent-ils?

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B refuses Saturday and suggests dimanche midi, and A confirms with oui, parfait. Answer: Sunday at midday, at the Italian restaurant.

7. Transcript: Le film finit à vingt-deux heures moins le quart. Question: À quelle heure finit le film?

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Vingt-deux heures is 22:00, and moins le quart means 15 minutes before. 22:00 minus 15 minutes is 21:45 (9.45 p.m.).

8. Transcript: Salut, c’est Paul. J’ai acheté deux billets pour le match, mais Karim ne vient pas. Alors j’ai invité Sophie. Rendez-vous à treize heures devant le stade, pas à la gare. Question: Qui vient avec Paul, à quelle heure et où?

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Karim is not coming (ne vient pas), so Paul invited Sophie. Treize heures is 13:00, not 30. The meeting place is devant le stade, not the station. Answer: Sophie, at 13:00 (1 p.m.), in front of the stadium.

9. Transcript: La piscine est fermée le lundi. En juillet, elle ouvre à neuf heures au lieu de dix heures, et le tarif enfant passe de trois euros quarante à quatre euros. Question: À quelle heure la piscine ouvre-t-elle en juillet, et quel est le tarif enfant?

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Au lieu de gives the new time first: neuf heures, so 9:00. The child price changes de trois euros quarante à quatre euros, so the new price is 4 euros. Answer: 9:00 and 4 euros. The 10:00 and 3.40 euros are the old details.

10. Transcript: Attention, voyageurs pour Bordeaux. Le train de seize heures quarante-cinq est retardé de vingt minutes. Il partira donc à dix-sept heures cinq, de la voie douze et non de la voie deux. Question: Quelle est la nouvelle heure de départ, et de quelle voie part le train?

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16:45 plus 20 minutes is 17:05, and the speaker gives it as dix-sept heures cinq. The platform is douze, which is 12, and not deux. Answer: 17:05 (5.05 p.m.), platform 12.

If you got these wrong

What went wrongQuestions to checkRevisit
Picked the wrong detail or the wrong label1, 2, 3, 8identifying the requested detail
Wrote the first detail, not the final one4, 6, 9, 10recognising a correction or changed plan
Mixed up numbers or times5, 7, 8, 10distinguishing similar numbers and times
Understood the transcript but did not hear itanyreviewing with a transcript

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