Key Stage 3 Listening Tests Book 1 - Softcover

This photocopiable workbook and accompanying CD provide a complete range of progressive tests for use with Years 7 to 9. Built around National Curriculum objectives, each test combines different types of multiple-choice questions with more open-ended questions, to allow for differentiation. The tests have been designed in consultation with teachers to be as flexible as possible, allowing you to decide the best way to use them with your pupils. Repertoire has been selected to represent a range of centuries, countries, styles and traditions. There are tests on western classical music, jazz and blues, music for stage and screen, world music and popular music. As well as introducing a wide range of musical styles, the tests adopt similar question structures and topics to those encountered at GCSE, preparing pupils for the move forward to Years 10 and 11. Key Stage 3 Listening Tests Book 2 provides a further selection of tests.

Jim Harrison is head of music at the Latymer School, Edmonton. Prior to working in secondary schools he was involved in various areas of music education: lecturing at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama; teaching at the University of Birmingham and Royal Holloway College; and tutoring in adult education (composition, contemporary music and string orchestra coaching). Other freelance work has included a range of composition commissions, working as an arranger and copyist for Ray Davies, and working as a statistician for a BBC football commentator. He currently delivers the A-level part of the PGCE course at the Institute of Education and runs A-level and GCSE INSET courses for Keynote Educational. He is also co-author of Rhinegolds Key Stage 3 Listening Tests Books 1 and 2, and Edexcel GCSE Listening Tests: Book 3. He completed his PhD composition portfolio and thesis in 2002. Kate Laurence is head of the PGCE music course at The Institute of Education and an Advanced Skills Teacher (AST) at an inner-London school. Kate has been director of music at St Marylebone School and has taught in London for nine years. Through her work as an AST, Kate has supported heads of music in local schools and worked with primary music coordinators within the LEA. Kate has also worked closely with the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust as a creative lead practitioner and has produced educational materials for the BBC, Sibelius and SFE. She currently delivers national INSET courses to music teachers through Keynote Educational.