Intensive
What task asks students to listen to pairs of words like ship/sheep or think/sink and decide whether the sounds are identical or different?
Minimal Pair Comparison
What task evaluates listening by having the teacher ask a direct personal prompt (e.g., "What time did you get up today?") and scoring the student's immediate answer?
Q&A
What task asks students to listen to a weather forecast or flight announcement and fill in missing arrival times and temperatures in a grid?
Information Gap
What task asks students to listen to a 10-minute podcast episode and write a short paragraph explaining the overall main idea?
Gist Summarization
What task requires students to listen to an audio clip at normal conversational speed and transcribe every single word exactly as heard?
Dictation
What task requires learners to carry out a physical action based on spoken instructions (e.g., "Circle the red star on page 5" or "Stand up and open the door")?
Imperative Compliance
What task provides students with a written text where every 5th to 7th word is missing, and they must fill in the blanks while listening to the audio?
Cloze Listening
What task requires learners to complete a structured, hierarchical main-idea outline while listening to an extended lecture?
Guided Note-Taking
What task tests whether learners can recognize subtle grammatical markers (such as -ed past tense endings or third-person -s) from short audio snippets?
Grammatical Structure
What task asks students to hear a social statement like "It's really hot in this room" and select an appropriate functional response like "I'll turn on the fan"?
Pragmatic Matching
What task asks learners to listen to a short 1-minute audio recording and select option A, B, C, or D for a specific piece of factual data?
Detail MCQ's
What task requires a student to listen to a short narrative story and orally recount the main plot events in sequential order?
Narrative Retelling
What task asks students to listen to sentences and indicate whether the voice rises or falls at the end of each utterance?
Intonation
What task requires a student to listen to a 6-to-8 word sentence and immediately repeat it back aloud to demonstrate speech perception and retention?
Sentence Repetition
What task gives students a list of items (e.g., grocery list, itinerary) and asks them to check off items as they hear them mentioned in a passage?
Checklist Matching
What task evaluates whether a student can determine an author or speaker’s unstated mood, attitude, or bias across an extended debate?
Inference
What task requires learners to listen to spoken connected speech with reduced forms (e.g., "gonna", "wanna", "didja") and write down their full, standard written forms?
Reduced Forms
What task evaluates whether a learner can recognize a breakdown in understanding and respond with a phrase like "Could you repeat that, please?"?
Clarification
What task asks students to listen to a spoken description of a room or map and place specific labels or drawings on a visual diagram?
Diagram Labelling
What task asks students to listen to two different news clips covering the same event and create a Venn diagram comparing their perspectives?
Synthesis