Starters Listening Part 3 plays five short conversations. For each one, your child looks at three pictures — A, B and C — and ticks the picture that answers a simple printed question. Five questions, no writing. It tests catching one key detail, like a colour, activity, object or place.
Your child sees five short printed questions, each with three pictures labelled A, B and C.
For each question, a short conversation between two speakers plays.
Your child ticks the box under the picture that answers the question.
Every conversation plays twice — the second listen is for checking the tick.
The wrong pictures are usually mentioned in the conversation too — train your child to hear the whole exchange before ticking, not the first familiar word.
Practise the simple question frames the printed questions use, such as 'Where is…?' and 'What is … doing?', so reading them takes no effort.
The options are pictures, so the reading load is tiny — spend prep time on listening vocabulary: toys, food, animals, places and actions.
Rehearse the format at home: show three pictures, ask one question aloud, and let your child point and explain their choice.
Listen-then-choose multiple-choice rounds in the same A/B/C shape as Part 3 — hear a short exchange, pick the right option.
Quick audio-to-picture rounds that train the tick-the-right-picture decision Part 3 asks for five times.
Very little. Each of the five questions has a short printed question and three picture options labelled A, B and C — your child ticks a box under the right picture. The reading load is one simple line; the real work is catching the key detail in the conversation.
The conversations usually mention things from the wrong pictures too, so a child who ticks the first thing they hear often gets caught. Teach your child to listen to the whole conversation before answering — the correct option is confirmed by the end of the exchange, and the recording plays twice.
They are everyday exchanges at Pre-A1 level: toys, food, animals, school objects, places around town, and what people are doing. All vocabulary comes from the official Starters wordlist, so revising core topic words with picture flashcards or vocabulary games covers everything Part 3 can reasonably ask.
Last updated: 2026-07-02
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Last updated: 2026-07-02