Grade 4 Listening practice

5 Grade 4 listening lessons, including hear big numbers, time by ear, sound-alike words, math by ear, listen and infer. Each one has a short video where Pip explains the idea, a worked example, and endless new practice questions with step-by-step help when a child gets stuck.

Step 1: Hear big numbers

Listen for thousands, then hundreds, then the rest. A missing place gets a zero.

Tip: Write the thousands first. If you hear no hundreds, put a 0 there.

Step 2: Time by ear

Elapsed time is how much time passes from start to end.

Tip: Count the hours first, then the minutes.

Step 3: Sound-alike words

Homophones sound the same but are spelled differently: there, their, they’re.

Tip: Think about what the word means in the sentence.

Step 4: Math by ear

Hold the numbers in your head and listen for the action word.

Tip: Words like gave away or ate mean take away. Got more means add.

Step 5: Listen and infer

Speakers drop clues. Put the clues together to figure out what they don’t say.

Tip: Clues + what you know = inference.

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