British Council Listening: Using Colours to Do Homework

Preparation: matching

• to remember important things.

• You can use colour

• coding to organise homework.

• You can write on sticky notes

• sells pens and paper.

• A stationery shop

Preparation: matching

• from a library.

• The flag of Britain

• days, weeks and months of a year.

• A calendar shows the

• is red, white and blue.

• We borrow books

Check your understanding: true or false

Groups:

(a) TRUE

,

(b) FALSE

• When she thinks of French, she thinks of her favourite animal.

• PE is yellow because she doesn’t like yellow.

• She uses red for geography notes.

• You need to buy some stationery to organise your homework like this.

• She uses flags to mark pages she has to read.

• She keeps all her notes in the same folder.

• The things you need are not cheap.

• The colour you choose should mean something to you.

Match the following

• MATHS

• 
• P.E.

• 
• HISTORY

• 
• FRENCH

• 
• GEOGRAPHY

• 

The speaker uses ​ (a)   coding to organise her homework.​ ​

• calendar
• notes
• folders
• pages
• subject
• colour

She suggests buying coloured pens,​ (a)   and other stationery.

• folders
• calendar
• notes
• colour
• pages
• subject

She chooses a colour for each ​ (a)   .

• subject
• calendar
• notes
• folders
• colour
• pages

History is blue so her folder is blue and her history ​ (a)   are on blue sticky notes.

• notes
• calendar
• folders
• colour
• pages
• subject

Then she uses blue flags to mark the (a)   she needs to read for history homework.

• pages
• calendar
• notes
• folders
• colour
• subject

She uses coloured stars on a (a)   to organise each subject’s homework.

• calendar
• notes
• folders
• colour
• pages
• subject