🎧 Listening C2

Lesson 1 — Same Idea, Different Audience: Listening

🎧 Listening · C2

Same Idea, Different Audience: Listening

Listen to three C2 conversations about audience, register and grammatical density. Focus on main ideas, precise details, implied meaning and the speakers' evaluations.

You'll practice:

  • Recognise audience-sensitive register choices.
  • Identify nominalisation, agency, ellipsis and explicitness.
  • Infer why speakers choose dense or expanded syntax.
  • Evaluate whether complexity serves the audience.

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.

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