Listening Part 5
Part 5 is the only part you watch rather than only hear. A video shows a small group discussing a shared situation, and the eight questions turn largely on who thinks what - which makes keeping the speakers apart the whole job.
Walkthrough published by the official CELPIP Test channel.
Listening to a Discussion plays a video in which a group - usually three people - talk through a situation they share: a plan at work, an arrangement, a decision that affects all of them.
This is the only visual material anywhere in the Listening test, and it earns its place: you can see who is speaking, who is being addressed, and who is unconvinced. With eight questions, it is also the joint largest part of the section.
Real discussion is untidy. People interrupt, agree only partly, change their minds, and support the same idea for different reasons - and the questions are written around exactly those moves rather than around the topic itself.
Set your page up before the video starts: three short columns, one per speaker. The video sets the pace, and rewriting your layout mid-discussion is how candidates lose the opening minute.
As each speaker is introduced, put a name or a distinguishing detail at the head of a column, then log only their position and any change to it. Watch the screen while you listen - who someone looks at, and who reacts, often settles attribution on its own - but do not let watching turn into reading faces instead of hearing words.
Practise with unscripted video - panel discussions, recorded meetings, group interviews - and afterwards write, from memory, one line per person: what they wanted, and whether they moved. Do that a dozen times and the three-column habit becomes automatic, which is exactly what you need when the video plays once and eight marks depend on keeping the speakers straight.
Quick answers about Listening Part 5.
Yes. It is the only part of the Listening test with a visual - a video of a group in discussion. Every other part is audio only.
No. Like every recording in the test it plays once, straight through, with no rewind. Set your notes up before it starts, because there is no opportunity to catch up afterwards.
Usually three, which is what makes attribution the central skill here. Give each of them a column in your notes as soon as they are introduced.
Eight - the joint largest set in the Listening test, matching Part 1. That weight makes it worth practising more than its position in the middle of the section suggests.
Both, but keep the notes minimal: a name and a position per speaker. The picture is there to help you attribute what you hear, so looking up is time well spent - copying down what you see is not.
Mostly who held which view, what a speaker meant or implied, what the group agreed in the end, and how someone’s position shifted during the discussion.