Cyber Listening Lab : General Listening Quizzes

EASY
By Edwin Toscano

Pre-listening exercise

Do you know what the “science sport” is?

Have you ever played chess?

What do you know about chess?

Chess boards have

· 49 squares

· 56 squares

· 64 squares

· 74 squares

Which of these is NOT a piece of chess:

· Dice

· Rook

· Pawn

· Queen

The game begins with

· 16

· 24

· 32

· 48

Chess represents:

· Modern wars

· Future wats

· Middle age wars

· Postmodern wars

The first computer to defeat a world chess champion was:

· Shatranj

· Deep Blue

· Garry Kasparov

· Theoreticians

MEDIUM

By Edwin Toscano

Pre-listening exercise

What’s the difference between England and The United Kingdom?

What countries integrate The United Kingdom?

Listen and complete.

What can I tell you about my __________, Scotland? Well, Scotland is part of the United Kingdom. The other parts are __________, Wales and Northern Ireland. Scotland is the __________ largest part of the U.K, and it has a population of about five million people. Edinburg is the __________city, the Scottish parliament is here. A lot of __________ come to Edinburg to visit the castle, the __________, art galleries and other places. Every summer there´s a big __________ with music, plays and shows, but Edinburg isn´t the largest city in Scotland, that´s Glasgow.

Scotland is __________ for many things: whisky, golf, bag pipes and bad weather. Scotland is __________ the coldest, wettest and windiest __________ in the U.K. but it also has some of the most __________sceneries. Scotland has a lot of hills and __________, including the highest mountain in the U.K: Ben Nevis. In winter, there´s snow on the mountains and you can go skiing. Scotland has also got a lot of lakes, we call them lochs. The most famous lake is Loch Ness. It´s the deepest lake in the U.K, and some __________ think that the famous Loch Ness monster lives in its cold, dark __________.

DIFFICULT
By Sebastian Botero

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General Listening Quizzes