Flyers Listening Part 5 shows a black-and-white scene. Your child listens to instructions and colours three objects, then writes a single word for two more questions. Five questions test colours, positions and careful listening — children must find exactly the right object before they colour or write anything.
Your child sees a large black-and-white scene — for example a park, a street or a classroom.
A speaker tells them which object to find and what colour to make it — three colouring instructions in total.
Two more instructions ask them to write a single word somewhere on the scene.
The recording plays twice, so unfinished colouring can be completed on the second listen.
Drill colour words until they are automatic — finding the right object is only half the job.
Positions matter: the recording often distinguishes between similar objects ('the ball under the chair'), so revise prepositions of place.
For the two writing questions, the word is a simple one — the challenge is writing it clearly in the right place on the scene.
Practise with real colouring pencils occasionally: children need to swap colours quickly without losing track of the audio.
The closest skill match: listen to an instruction and identify exactly the right object — Part 5 without the colouring pencils.
The colouring format itself is not gamified yet — colouring on a screen is not quite the paper task. Listen & Choose is the closest skill match for the careful listening involved, and the free 15-minute readiness mock test at /readiness-test shows you where your child stands across the whole Listening paper.
All the colour words on the Cambridge YLE wordlists, recognised instantly by ear. The task usually involves the less obvious ones too, not just red and blue, so drill the full set. Equally important are prepositions of place — the instructions say which of several similar objects to colour.
Yes — two of the five questions ask them to write a single word somewhere on the scene, while the other three are colouring instructions. The word itself is simple; the skill is catching where it goes and writing it legibly in the right spot on the picture.
No. Examiners are checking that the correct object is coloured in the correct colour — artistic neatness earns nothing extra, and going slightly outside the lines loses nothing. Tell your child to make the colour clearly visible on the right object and move on; speed matters more than tidiness.
There is no pass or fail. Each paper — Listening, Reading & Writing, and Speaking — is awarded up to five shields, fifteen in total. Around ten shields, with at least two in every skill, is generally treated as a strong result and a sign a child is ready to progress.
Last updated: 2026-07-02
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Last updated: 2026-07-02