In Flyers Listening Part 1, your child looks at a big picture of people doing things and listens to a dialogue. They match five names to the correct people by drawing lines. Five questions test whether children can recognise names and follow descriptions of appearance and actions.
Your child sees one big picture full of people doing different things, with names printed around it.
They listen to a dialogue between two speakers describing who is who.
Each time a name is matched to a person, they draw a line from the name to that person.
The recording plays twice, so there is a second chance to check every line.
Teach your child to scan the big picture first: count the people and note what each one is doing before the audio starts.
The recording identifies each person by an action or appearance detail — 'the girl carrying the ladder' — so practise describing people that way at home.
Revise wordlist names by sound: children often know a name written down but do not recognise it spoken.
Use the second listening to check lines already drawn, not to start again from scratch.
Trains fast word recognition by ear — the underlying skill behind matching each name to the right person before the dialogue moves on.
Listen to a description and pick the matching picture — the same listen-then-identify step Part 1 asks for.
The exact big-picture, draw-a-line format is not fully gamified yet. Sound Arena and Listen & Choose train the same listening skills, and the free 15-minute readiness mock test at /readiness-test includes exam-style listening questions so you can see how your child handles the real format.
Twice. Every recording in the Flyers Listening paper is played two times, and Part 1 is no exception. Teach your child to draw the lines they are sure about on the first play, then use the second play purely to check and to fill anything they missed.
Nothing — there is no writing in Part 1. The task is to draw a line from each of the five names to the correct person in the big picture. That makes it a gentle opener: children only need to recognise names by sound and follow simple descriptions of people.
The names come from the official Cambridge YLE wordlists — short, common English first names. Your child should recognise them both spoken and written, since the names are printed on the exam page. Saying wordlist names aloud while your child points to them is a quick, effective drill.
Yes. It is the most visual of the five listening parts and needs no writing, so it builds confidence early. Once your child matches names comfortably, move on to Part 2, which adds the harder skill of writing words and numbers down from what they hear.
Last updated: 2026-07-02
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