Sentence examples for listening elements from inspiring English sources

The year 10 group eventually used the soap to support the speaking and listening elements of their GCSE English coursework.

The maths, reading, spelling, vocabulary and punctuation tests should continue to be externally assessed, while the speaking and listening elements should still be marked internally, Bew said.

There was also a "small switch" of students to IGCSEs (international GCSEs), which retained the speaking and listening element of exams, he said.

There was also a "small switch" of students to IGCSEs, a GCSE alternative, which retained the speaking and listening element of exams, he said.

The pass rate for students sitting GCSE English has fallen for the first time in 20 years, after the removal of the "speaking and listening" element of the exam.

In addition, because of changes to GCSE English – in particular the scrapping of the speaking and listening element of the syllabus – a proportion of middle-ability students were put in for the alternative iGCSE.

"The key drivers are that stronger students took the exam in the winter season, which was the last opportunity for schools and colleges to sit English with the speaking and listening element.

Andrew Hall, head of the exam board AQA, said: "Stronger students took the exam in the winter season, which was the last opportunity for schools and colleges to sit English with the speaking and listening element.

The English-based boards dropped the 'speaking and listening' element of the exam, but it was retained by Northern Ireland.

IGCSEs have long been favoured by private schools, but there has been a surge in the number of state schools using IGCSEs after the government decided to drop the speaking and listening element of English GCSE from the overall grade and report it separately.

A former Skype engineer, who declined to be named because of the sensitive nature of the issue, told the Guardian that the company worked to build in a "listening element" to help Chinese authorities monitor users' communications for keywords, triggering a warning to alert the government when certain phrases get typed into its chat interface.