Discovering Europe’s Charm: A Memorable Trip Through France. Exploring France Through an Unforgettable Pig Roast Adventure with Free Listening Comprehension Activities and free Mp3
Discovering Europe’s Charm: A Memorable Trip Through France
Discovering Europe’s Charm: A Memorable Trip Through France
Listening comprehension activities are essential for language learners to enhance their understanding of spoken English. This blog post presents a listening comprehension activity based on a conversation about a memorable trip to France, including multiple-choice questions, fill-in-the-gaps, drag-the-word, and true/false exercises.
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: So, Mike, you were born in Europe but grew up in Canada. Have you been back to Europe?
Mike: Yeah, I’ve been back to Europe on a couple of occasions. The first time I guess I went back to Europe was in 1989, 1990, when I went to visit my friend who was studying in France, in Paris, studying business at one of the business schools there. And during the trip, we’d rented a car, so we were driving around the country, and one of the best memories I had was when we drove into Lyon, in the center of France. And the people were really friendly, really fantastic, and we just met some people in a bar who then invited us out to their cottage in the country the following day for a pig roast.
Interviewer: A pig roast?
Mike: Yes.
Interviewer: What is a pig roast? You put a pig on a stick?
Mike: Yeah, well, that’s exactly… We had no… We thought it was just a barbecue, but we drove through this tiny road into the middle of the forest it seemed. And there was this, we came to a cottage, a small wooden, very old looking cottage. And next to it, they were roasting a gigantic pig on a big spit over an open fire. And there was one of the people that we’d met was there turning the spit so that the pig was being, obviously was being well cooked. And he’d been there for several hours already doing this by the time we arrived about one o’clock in the afternoon. It was interesting, it was amazing, they told us the history of this little cottage that belonged to one of the people. It was several hundred years old and apparently used to be a hideout for French pirates.
Interviewer: No way.
Mike: Yeah, yeah, and it looked like a wooden shack. It didn’t really look like something, but which would be perfect as a hideout because no one would suspect it. But it was fascinating. They even had pictures on the walls of two of the pirates that I guess visited or had been there during that time. And so a lot of just, it’s incredible, the history and the culture that you’ll find in a small little shack in the woods in the middle of Lyon.
Interviewer: That is cool.
Mike: Yeah.
Interviewer: Really neat.
Mike: Cool. Nice.
Interviewer: So what happened? You had lunch and then you…
Mike: We had the pig roast and obviously some wine and just had a great time. Got to meet all kinds of really new and interesting people and talk about the history of the place and the actual, the region, the Loire Valley, which is just famous for castles and for wine, very historic area of France.
Interviewer: That sounds nice.
Engaging in listening comprehension exercises can significantly enhance your ability to understand spoken English. By practicing with varied and interesting content, you can improve your listening skills while learning about different cultures and experiences. Regular practice with these types of activities will help you become more proficient and confident in your English language abilities.
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