What will volunteers do at Bike Safety Day?
Basic Understanding of Spoken English · TELPAS Grades 4–5 listening. The correct answer, and the reasoning behind it.
Reporting category 2: understand the main points and important details of spoken stories and informational passages, about everyday life and school subjects.
Listen to the announcement. Then answer the questions.
Bike Safety Day
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Coach Salinas: Hello, students. This is Coach Salinas. This Saturday, our school will hold Bike Safety Day in the front parking lot, from nine in the morning until noon.
Coach Salinas: Bring your bike and your helmet. Volunteers will check your brakes and pump up your tires if they are low. Then you can ride through a practice course with stop signs and crosswalks, just like a real street.
Coach Salinas: Every rider must wear a helmet on the course. Your helmet should fit snugly and sit low on your forehead. A helmet that slides around on your head cannot protect you very well.
Coach Salinas: If you don't have a helmet, please come anyway. We will have some free helmets to give away while they last.
The question
Choose the best answer.
What will volunteers do at Bike Safety Day?
- teach students to ride with no hands
- sell new bikes and helmets
- check brakes and pump up tiresCorrect answer
- paint stop signs on the parking lot
Why “check brakes and pump up tires” is correct
This is a detail question. Coach Salinas names two jobs for the volunteers: checking brakes and pumping up low tires. The other choices mix up words from the announcement, such as helmets and stop signs, with things that were never said.
Why the other answers are wrong
- teach students to ride with no hands — This would be unsafe, and it is never mentioned.
- sell new bikes and helmets — The helmets are given away free; nothing is sold.
- paint stop signs on the parking lot — The course has stop signs, but no one is painting them.
Practice more of this
More listening practice for Grades 4–5, or see the TELPAS practice test for 4th and 5th grade.
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