IGCSE+Listening

Back to IGCSE: Grade 9 and 10

Approximately 45 minutes, 48 marks

Although candidates will encounter a variety of question types on the Listening Paper, wherever possible objective questions are used, requiring little writing in the target language, e.g. multiple choice, box-ticking, matching exercises, and grid filling.

Where candidates are required to produce written answers in the target language, it is important that they writing at length may find it hard to keep up with the recording. The aim of this paper is to test candidates’ listening comprehension skills and therefore **candidates are not** Answers written in any language other than that being tested are ignored.
 * write briefly, relevantly and concisely**. Long answers often contain irrelevant information and candidates
 * penalised for incorrect or inaccurate language** unless it makes their answers ambiguous.

Candidates hear **short recordings**, sometimes involving two speakers, which are tested mainly by visual material (pictures, line drawings, etc.). The recordings contain largely **factual information** about travel, weather, opening times, facilities available, etc. and candidates identify main points and extract some details.
 * Section 1 (16 marks)**

Candidates hear recordings of **conversations, discussions or simple radio programmes** containing **factual**
 * Section 2 (16 marks)**
 * material and points of view**. They listen for main points and extract details and points of view.

Candidates hear recordings of **discussions between two or three people**. They listen for main points and detail. There will be questions to test appreciation of the speakers’ use of language to express **agreement or** of their conversation.
 * Section 3 (16 marks)**
 * disagreement, apologies or complaints, attitudes, emotions and ideas etc.,** as well as understanding the gist