CELPIP Listening Part 3: Listening for Information, format and tips
Part 3 plays a conversation in which one person gives another information, such as how a service works or what an event involves. Then you hear 6 questions, with 30 seconds to answer each.
The part at a glance
| Questions | 6 |
|---|---|
| Time to answer | 30 s per question |
| Recording | Plays once, with no replay |
| What you hear | One person gives another information in a conversation. |
What you hear and see
One person asks and the other explains: the facts, the steps or the options, usually with a few numbers, times or names along the way.
After the recording, each question is read aloud and its four answers appear on screen. You choose one before the 30-second timer runs out, then the next question begins.
Question types
- Details: a fact, a step, a time or a price.
- A speaker's role or view: who they are, or what they think.
- What happens next, or what the person asking will do.
Practise Part 3
A practice set for this part, with its own recordings, is coming soon. Until then, the free Listening & Reading mock has the full Listening section, with every recording played once.
Tips for Part 3
- Listen for the question behind the conversation: what does the person want to find out?
- Note numbers, times and names as you hear them; they are easy to mix up.
- Follow the order of the steps, and listen for what the person decides to do next.
- Watch for corrections, when a speaker changes a detail they just gave.
- Work out who is giving the information, and in what role, from how they talk.
Common mistakes
- Choosing a detail that was mentioned but belongs to a different option.
- Keeping a figure the speaker later corrected.
- Losing the main point while noting every small detail.
Questions
- What kind of information does CELPIP Listening Part 3 give?
- Practical information that one person explains to another, then 6 questions with 30 seconds to answer each.
- How long do you have to answer in CELPIP Listening Part 3?
- 30 seconds for each question.
For all six parts and how they are timed, see the CELPIP Listening page.
See every part and task in the CELPIP test format, or how to practise for CELPIP.
These parts, questions and timings follow Paragon's published test format: see the sources on our CELPIP test format page.
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