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A listening exercise.


Use this Listening Exercise to help evaluate the listening skills of your preschoolers. Make copies of this page for children. Use the exercise on an individual basis, apart from the rest of the class. Read the story aloud. Read each question and help the child identify the pictures. Then ask the child to point to or mark the picture that correctly answers each question.
Banana, Frisky, and Jumper

   Banana Monkey, Frisky Squirrel, and Jumper Frog took a trip to
   a farm with their teacher.
   Banana fed a horse some carrots.
   Frisky picked apples from a tree.
   Jumper planted seeds in the vegetable garden.
   Then, the three friends took a ride on a tractor.


1. What did Banana feed the horse?

Pear green beans green beans
Noun, pl

long narrow green beans that are cooked and eaten as a vegetable
 carrot carrot, common name for some members of the Umbelliferae, a family (also called the parsley family) of chiefly biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions.  

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2. What did Frisky frisk·y  
adj. frisk·i·er, frisk·i·est
Energetic, lively, and playful: a frisky kitten.



frisk
 pick from the tree?

oranges apples bananas ba·nan·as  
adj. Slang
Crazy: "That's the horrible thing when you're bananas
 

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3. What did the friends ride on?

tractor motorcycles airplane airplane, aeroplane, or aircraft, heavier-than-air vehicle, mechanically driven and fitted with fixed wings that support it in flight through the dynamic action of the air.  

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Title Annotation:test for preschool's listening skills
Publication:Weekly Reader, Edition Pre-K (including Science Spin)
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Apr 1, 2003
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