🎧 Listening C1

Lesson 4 — Competing Accounts

🎧 Listening · C1

Competing Accounts

Listen to three C1 conversations and compare how speakers frame events from different perspectives.

You'll practice:

  • follow explanations of tense choice
  • distinguish evidence from reconstruction
  • infer why a speaker wants more or less narrative distance

How it works

3 conversations · 18 questions

  1. Listen first

    Play the conversation and just listen — no text yet. You can pause and replay.

  2. Answer the main question

    One question about what the conversation is about.

  3. Listen again for details

    Then 5 more questions: names, countries and key phrases.

  4. See your result

    Then the next conversation. After all 3, you get a short summary.

  • Stuck? After the first listen you can open the transcript with translation, or slow the audio down.
  • Turn your sound on before you start.