🎧 Listening · C1
Whose Story Is It?
Listen to three C1 conversations about how editors and writers control narrative distance and emphasis.
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
Listen first
Play the conversation and just listen — no text yet. You can pause and replay.
Answer the main question
One question about what the conversation is about.
Listen again for details
Then 5 more questions: names, countries and key phrases.
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.