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CELPIP Listening Part 4: Listening to a News Item

CELPIP Listening Part 4 Practice Test: A Sled on Screen

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A free Listening Part 4 practice test in the CELPIP format: 5 questions with the answer key. Play each recording once, as in the real test, answer, then check your answers at the bottom of the page. The transcript is under each recording.

Questions
5
Format
1 news report, questions after it
Question style
Multiple choice, 4 options
Play like the real test
Each recording plays once, then each question with 30 seconds to answer (Parts 4–6: one timer for the part). No pausing to replay, like test day.

  1. Akavak first made the film

  2. Akavak entered the competition because

  3. Part of the prize money will be used to

  4. The judges were especially impressed by

  5. The grandfather's reaction to the award is best described as

Transcript (read it after you answer)

NARRATOR: A seventeen-year-old from Iqaluit has taken top honours at a national youth film competition, beating out more than three hundred entries from across the country. Grade twelve student Naomi Akavak spent last winter following her grandfather as he rebuilt a traditional wooden sled, filming mostly on a borrowed phone with a secondhand microphone. The twelve-minute documentary is narrated in Inuktitut, with English subtitles. Akavak says she originally intended the footage only as a family keepsake. It was her media teacher who persuaded her to enter, just two days before the deadline. The judges praised the film's patience and quiet humour, singling out a scene in which her grandfather scolds the camera for getting in his way. The award includes five thousand dollars and a week-long mentorship with professional filmmakers in Toronto. Akavak, who hopes to study film after graduation, plans to spend part of the prize on equipment for her school's new film club, so that younger students won't have to borrow phones the way she did. Her grandfather, meanwhile, has reportedly been less interested in the attention than in the sled, which he insists is the real star. He is already planning a second one, for his great-granddaughter.

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Answer key

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  1. Akavak first made the film B. as a private record for relatives.
  2. Akavak entered the competition because A. someone at her school urged her to.
  3. Part of the prize money will be used to D. help other young people make films.
  4. The judges were especially impressed by C. a light-hearted moment with her grandfather.
  5. The grandfather's reaction to the award is best described as B. unconcerned.

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