Listening Exercise 1. Short-answer questions

Difficulty level: medium

This type of exercises aims at improving your listening skills for short-answer questions. It requires you to be patient and attentive in order to answer all the questions correctly.

Note that:

Listen to the recording and try to answer all the given questions:



“Hair of the dog”

Answer the questions below.

Write ONLY ONE WORD from the dialogue for each answer.


  1. Who is Fido?

  2. A bottle of what did Finn buy?

  3. What should the hair of the dog cure?

  4. Hair of the dog was believed to be a remedy for what disease, according to the medieval belief?

  5. Who's going to drink just coffee today?