Exploring Canadian Cities. Discover the Best Vacation Spots in Canada with Free Listening Comprehension Activities and free Mp3
Exploring Canadian Cities
Exploring Canadian Cities
Listening comprehension is a key skill in learning English, and practicing it with engaging content makes the process enjoyable and effective. Here is a free listening comprehension activity based on a conversation about vacationing in Canada. This activity includes multiple-choice questions, fill-in-the-gaps, drag-the-word, and true/false exercises to help you understand and retain the information from the transcript.
Listening Comprehension Activities
Instructions:
- Play the audio clip for the students.
- Have students listen carefully to the clip.
- After listening, provide the students with the transcripts
Listen to the MP3 audio file and complete the following exercises
Transcripts
Check your answers with the transcript provided
Interviewer: Okay, Mike, you are from Canada.
Mike: That’s right.
Interviewer: So, I actually want to go to Canada for vacation. I’ve never been. What would you recommend for a Canadian vacation?
Mike: Well, it really just depends on the kind of holiday that you want to have. If you want to have a relaxing, outdoors, kind of a back-to-nature kind of holiday, I’d recommend Vancouver. If you wanted to do a holiday that’s maybe a little more culturally oriented, if you want to experience a different type of culture, Montreal would be a city that I’d recommend. And if you wanted to go to a big multicultural city with a lot of nightlife and things to do with respect to entertainment or sports, then I’d recommend Toronto.
Interviewer: Have you been to all three cities?
Mike: Yes. Actually, I’ve lived most of my life in Toronto and in Montreal, but I have spent some time in Vancouver as well. So, all three are very different in attitude and lifestyle and in the way people live.
Interviewer: How so? How is somebody from Toronto different than somebody from Vancouver?
Mike: Well, somebody from Toronto, I think, is a little bit more high-paced. Maybe you could almost say they’re a little bit more stressed out. Just because the pace of life in Toronto is a little bit faster, it’s kind of the big economic center of Canada. So, it tends to have a lot more of a business culture to it, whereas Vancouver is much more like many west coast cities in the United States as well. It’s a lot more relaxed, a lot more easygoing. So, the difference in culture there. And Montreal has a strong French-Canadian influence. In fact, it’s mostly French-Canadian. So, that just changes the dynamic of the city.
Interviewer: Okay. So, if you were to live in any city, which one would you choose?
Mike: Of those three?
Interviewer: Yeah.
Mike: Personally, I would think I would go for Montreal, just because I like the dynamic. The one bad point about Montreal is the weather.
Interviewer: It’s very cold?
Mike: Yes. It gets very, very cold, and it has a very long winter. In fact, the joke is that in Montreal, the seasons are nine months of winter and three months of bad skating.
Interviewer: Okay. Well, thanks, Mike.
Mike: Sure.
Practicing listening comprehension with varied exercises helps reinforce the information and improves language skills effectively. This activity, based on a conversation about Canadian cities, provides multiple ways to test and enhance your understanding. Regular practice with such engaging content can significantly improve your listening and comprehension abilities in English.
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