TASK 7 - Listening Worksheet From ESL Short Stories

This activity has been created using ESL Short Stories. This activity is aimed at A2 students. The objective is to practice and improve the listening skill. Firstly, we find a text with blank gaps that s<tudents will fill in while they listen to the audio. Then, we find an exercise with some true or false questions.

A BIRD ATTACKS

1. Listen and fill in the missing gaps.

Heather loved the freedom of soaring high above_____land and sea. She learned how to hang-glide____her boyfriend.

Initially, she was scared to death.____first time he took her up, she hung_____for dear life. But by the end of____flight, she was hooked. Half a year later,_____bought her own hang-glider.

Almost every weekend, she_____to Torrey Pines and leaped off the cliff._____could soar to La Jolla in less than_____minutes. She liked to fly over the town.____would wave at kids pointing and looking up_____her, and they would shout and wave back_____.

One day she was returning to the launch_____when she noticed a red hawk rapidly approaching______. It briefly disappeared. Then she heard its claws_____the wing’s fabric. It flew off. But the____thing she knew, it was flying straight at____. She turned out of its way, but it____at her again. She was scared.

She had____evade its attacks four times before she was_____to land safely. Even after she landed, it_____overhead, as if daring her to fy again.____did I do to you, she wondered.

As_____drove home, she found out that she had_____lucky. The radio news reported that in Australia,_____hang-glider had been attacked by not one, but _____, eagles.

Maybe it was something in the air;______thought.

2. Answer the following yes / no questions with the correct short answer. For example: Yes, he did or No, he didn’t.

a. Did Heather love the freedom of snoring?

b. Did she love to soar hight above the land and sea?

c. Did her boyfriend teach her how to hang-glide?

d. Was she scared to death initially?

e. Did she buy her own hang-glider a year later?


f. Did she drive to Torrey Pines every weekend?

g. Did she leap off the mountain?

h. Could she soar to La Jolla in less than five seconds?

i. Did she like to fly over the town?

j. Would she wave at kids looking up at her?

To listen to the text click here: A Bird Attacks Listening