The Grand Budapest Hotel — English Listening Comprehension
Use this The Grand Budapest Hotel trailer to practice understanding spoken English in context. Watch the specified section, then answer the listening comprehension questions below and check your answers.
Here's what you do:
Click on the video below.
Watch the first 1:45 of the trailer, and pay attention to it! (You can pause and rewind the video.)
Answer the listening comprehension questions below the video.
Check your answers.
QUESTIONS:
1. At the beginning of the trailer, the lobby boy says that _________________ would want to be a lobby boy.
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2. Many of the guests at the Grand Budapest Hotel went there because of _____________________.
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3. What does the dead woman leave for Gustave H.?
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4. Where does the police officer want roadblocks?
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5. How many men does the police officer need?
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Did you know?
One effective technique for trailer-based listening practice is to watch once without questions, form a mental summary of what you understood, then watch again with the questions in front of you. The gap between your summary and the correct answers reveals exactly where your listening breaks down.