Listening: A Podcast on Mental Health
A podcast on mental health is a B2 listening text in the long-form conversational genre. The audio covers a host and an expert guest discussing aspects of mental health — common challenges, available approaches, what helps and what doesn’t. Learners practise sustained-attention listening, expert-vocabulary recognition, and identifying the speakers’ attitudes on a sensitive topic.
This worksheet builds B2 listening comprehension through a long-form podcast audio.
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What’s inside:
- A podcast audio (~6 minutes) with annotated transcript
- Pre-listening vocabulary box with mental-health and therapeutic terms
- Comprehension items: identify key claims, distinguish host from guest views, infer attitudes
- Multiple-choice on factual claims and reasoning
- Production task: write a reflection on what helps your own wellbeing
- Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes
Common challenges: Sustained-attention listening at B2 — 6 minutes is longer than most learners are used to. Sensitive-topic handling: anxiety, depression, burnout, therapy, medication — vocabulary that carries weight. Hedged expert-speak: research suggests, in my experience, what we tend to see.
For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B2, in upper-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Maps onto Cambridge B2 First (FCE) Listening Part 3 and C1 Advanced (CAE) Listening. Part of the Media & Entertainment collection — the natural next step is A Cooking Show Segment, which returns to a more accessible media-listening entry.
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