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DELE A1 listening task 1: Short dialogues

Comprensión auditiva, tarea 1

Listen to five short dialogues and choose the matching picture out of three for each.

Part of the 25-minute listening test: 25 questions, 25 points, in group 2 with speaking. Every correct answer counts the same, and a wrong answer costs nothing.

Planes con amigos

Usted va a escuchar cinco conversaciones breves entre amigos. Conteste a la pregunta de cada conversación (1-5). Seleccione la imagen correcta (a, b o c).

1¿Dónde quedan Pablo y Ana?
2¿Qué día juegan al tenis Marta y Diego?
3¿Qué lleva Javier a la fiesta?
4¿Cómo van Carlos y Elena a la playa?
5¿A qué hora estudian juntos Sara y Luis?

0 of 5 answered

What DELE A1 listening task 1 tests

The official guide describes very brief exchanges between two people, with two or three turns each, on daily matters or things needed straight away, all from personal life. It tests whether you can catch the general idea and concrete details of very short, simple conversations at a slow pace with clear pronunciation. Every recording in the listening test is played twice.

The lesson on listening task 1 gives the full method and a worked dialogue.

Common traps

  1. Speakers often turn down the first idea. After ¿Quedamos a las cinco? A las cinco tengo clase, five o'clock is out, even if one of the pictures shows it.
  2. No hay, está cerrado and está roto take away the thing just named, even when it appears in one of the pictures.
  3. Each question names one person, such as el chico or la mujer. What the other speaker chooses is often shown in another picture.

Worked example

Transcript of the recording

Niña: Mamá, ¿dónde está el gato? No está en mi cama.
Madre: Mira debajo de la mesa de la cocina.
Niña: No, ahí no está.
Madre: Pues mira en el jardín. Siempre está al sol.
Niña: ¡Sí, aquí está, en el jardín!

¿Dónde está el gato?

  1. a) En la cama de la niña
  2. b) Debajo de la mesa de la cocina
  3. c) En el jardín
Answer and explanation

Answer: c) En el jardín

In the exam the three options are pictures. The girl has already looked on her bed (No está en mi cama), and the kitchen table is her mother's first idea, which turns out wrong: ahí no está. The cat is in the garden, aquí está, en el jardín, so the answer is c.

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