B2 First · Listening · Part 1
Listen and choose the best answer (A–C) for each question.
Eight short unrelated extracts, one question each, three options. Because the extracts share no context, there is nothing to carry over — each one starts cold, and the whole task is over in a few seconds per item.
The question stem usually tells you what to listen for: a speaker's feeling, their purpose, their opinion of something. Read it before the extract starts and hold that one thing in mind. The classic wrong answer is a word or fact that was clearly said but does not answer the question asked, and it is designed to feel right.
Yes — every part of the paper plays twice, and so does every listening exercise here. Use the first play for the answer and the second to confirm it, rather than treating the second as a safety net for extracts you did not concentrate on.
Because the distractors are built from things the speaker actually said. The test is not whether you caught the words but whether you caught what they were doing — agreeing, complaining, changing their mind. Match the option to the speaker's purpose, not to vocabulary you recognise.
