Enhancing Listening Skills with “The Aviator” – Free MP3 and Online Exercises. Practice Listening Comprehension with Engaging Content
Enhancing Listening Skills with “The Aviator”
Enhancing Listening Skills with “The Aviator”
Listening comprehension is a crucial skill for language learners. This blog post provides a free MP3 and online exercises based on an engaging transcript about the movie “The Aviator,” featuring Leonardo DiCaprio. With these resources, learners can practice their listening skills and answer multiple-choice questions to test their understanding.
By utilizing these resources, students can practice their listening skills, improve their comprehension, and have fun while learning. Enjoy the MP3 and online exercises, and happy listening!
Listening Comprehension Exercises
Listen to the MP3 audio file and answer the multiple-choice questions below
Check your answers with the transcript provided
Transcript: Howard – Movie
Howard: You said you saw the movie “The Aviator.”
Interviewer: Oh, yes. With Leonardo DiCaprio. OK, what is the movie about?
Howard: Well, “The Aviator” refers to the character Howard Hughes.
Interviewer: OK, who was Howard Hughes?
Howard: Well, Howard Hughes is a very famous person in the United States. He was a flyer, first of all, and he was a producer of movies, and he was a little crazy. The interesting part of his character, although he was a very brilliant thinker and a great aviator, he had a kind of obsession with cleanliness, which actually drove him crazy in his later life, really. So he always wanted to be super clean, super clean. He hated germs, and he went to extraordinary lengths to keep himself and all his surroundings clean. If anybody touched him, he had to wash many times to get all the germs off of him.
Interviewer: And he was just… it became such an obsession that it interfered with his entire personal life. Wow. What about you? Are you very clean? Do you worry about germs?
Howard: No, not really. I don’t think so, actually.
Interviewer: If you’re eating M&M’s and one falls off your hand and hits the floor, would you pick it up real quick and still eat it, or would you not eat it?
Howard: It depends if I have cleaned the floor lately.
Interviewer: OK, but overall, back to the movie. Was it a good movie?
Howard: Yes. In fact, it’s been nominated for a number of Academy Awards, and I think this year it will do quite well. It’s entertaining and it’s well performed by Leonardo DiCaprio. Although I think that Leonardo DiCaprio is a little young for the part, but he did a very good job in his acting.
Interviewer: OK, thanks. Maybe I’ll try to see it.
Narrator: OK, now I’ll talk about my winter vacation. This winter vacation I spent two weeks in my hometown, which is Daytona Beach, FL. It was wonderful. The weather was warm every day, it was sunny every day, and the temperature was almost 80°. I visited my mother and I spent every morning having a nice leisurely cup of coffee and reading the newspaper. After that, I got my bicycle out and rode down to the beach and enjoyed the sun and the surf. Came back home, read a book, and went to bed early. I had a wonderful time. I saw a couple of new movies when I was home in Florida. I saw “The Aviator” and also an interesting movie called “Spanglish,” which I hope you all can see because it’s an interesting movie about English and Spanish.
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