Birthday Party
Looking for a fun way to teach Pre A1 Listening Part 1 skills? This colourful illustration of a birthday party is perfect for helping young learners practice identifying names. It’s also great for matching names to people. The lively scene shows children wearing party hats, enjoying cake, and celebrating together. This is ideal for engaging students in early listening activities and is also great for vocabulary development.
- The Birthday Party Pre A1 Listening Part 1 activity takes 10 – 15 minutes.
- Supports listening for names and descriptions.
- For students at an early stage of learning English.
Listen and Match the Names
You will hear two people talking about a birthday party photo. Put the names in the right places in the photo.
Starters Listening Part 1 Test 1 (Transcript)
Look at the picture. Listen and look. There is one example.
A: Here’s a photo of my birthday party, Miss Gray
B: Oh, that’s brilliant. Who’s that girl with the camera?
A: That’s my friend Becky. She loves taking photos.
B: So do I.
Can you see Becky’s name? This is an example. Now you listen and put the names next to the right person.
Question 1
A: Can you see my mom?
B: Is she holding the cake?
A: Yes she is.
B: What’s her name?
A: Her name’s Maria.
B: Oh! OK.
Question 2
B: Who’s that boy with wearing glasses?
A: The boy with the drink?
B: Yes, that boy there, who is he?
A: That’s my friend Nick.
Question 3
B: And what’s that boy’s name? The boy standing up on his phone.
A: That’s my brother Joe.
B: Oh! He’s got a nice phone.
A: I know, it’s new and he loves it.
Question 4
B: Look. There’s another person sitting down on his phone, too.
A: Yes that’s my dad.
B: What’s his name?
A: His name is Bob.
Question 5
A: And there’s my friend Paul. He’s got a yellow T-shirt and a blue hat.
B: Is he clapping his hands?
A: Yes that’s him. He’s very happy.
B: Thank you for showing me your great photo.
Now listen to it again.
Here are words and phrases from this activity.
- birthday party
- brother
- cake
- camera
- drink
- my friend
- new
- photo
- phone
- yellow t-shirt
Starter Practice
We regularly upload Pre A1 listening and speaking exercises alongside reading and writing practice. We also upload videos designed explicitly for the Pre A1 Starters test. These resources help young learners build confidence. They also improve their listening and speaking skills for the Cambridge English Starters exam.
Here are video of the full test from Cambridge Assessment English.
You see a big picture and you point to things. Then you put three things on the picture and answer questions about it.
You will see three pictures and you will answer three questions about each picture.
You will answer three questions with a word or short phrase.
Starter Success
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