Listening & Writing

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Listening & Writing

Planning

- Exercise: Speech to text

- Pitfalls

- Summarizing

- Rewriting

Pearson Exam

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Let's pratice some sentences

Rewrite what you hear.
You have 25 seconds per question.
I will repeat every sentence once.

1. Rewrite what you hear

I bought here some flowers for her birthday. Now I need some flour for the cake.

2. Rewrite what you hear

He's here somewhere, but I don't hear him. 

3. Rewrite what you hear

Do you read books? I read one yesterday

4. Rewrite what you hear

Did you hear the bell too? It's time to go

5. Rewrite what you hear

In our shop, all the clocks are set on the same hour

Pitfalls

Homophones

Words that sound similar

Flour/Flower
Hear/Here
To/Too
Our/Hour

Can you think of any other homophones?

Rewriting / Paraphrasing

Writing something in a different way, but having the same meaning.

John took his bicycle to work today.

This day, John cycled to his job. 

Rewriting/Paraphrasing

John took his bicycle to work today.

John cycled to his job this day. 

Let's try!

Rewrite the following sentences.

Use as many synonyms and word-replacements as possible

"One day ago, a little mouse stole some cheese of the table."

"Surprisingly, I woke up on time, even without setting an alarm!"

"Tessa lifted a giant rock all by herself!"

Summarize

Looking for key-words

Which words are absolutely necessary to form the story?
Which carry the biggest meaning?

(1) Who - (2) did what? - (3/4) when <-> (3/4) where -
(5) why - (6) other info

1. Many moons ago there lived a lonely T-Rex called Greg who lived in a forest.

2. Early one morning, he decided to go and visit his best friend Sid.

3. Unfortunately, he did not realize that Sid was away camping.

4. Luckily, he took a detour via the park and met a lot of his other dino chums.

5. Finally, they all had a great play and Greg was lonely no more.

1. Many moons ago there lived a lonely T-Rex called Greg who lived in a forest.

2. Early one morning, he decided to go and visit his best friend Sid.

3. Unfortunately, he did not realize that Sid was away camping.

4. Luckily, he took a detour via the park and met a lot of his other dino chums.

5. Finally, they all had a great play and Greg was lonely no more.

1. Many moons ago there lived a lonely T-Rex called Greg who lived in a forest.

2. Early one morning, he decided to go and visit his best friend Sid.

3. Unfortunately, he did not realize that Sid was away camping.

4. Luckily, he took a detour via the park and met a lot of his other dino chums.

5. Finally, they all had a great play and Greg was lonely no more.

A T-Rex called Greg lived in a forest

He goes and visit his friend Sid

He did not realise Sid was/went camping

He went to the park and met his dino chums

Greg was lonely no more

Now on to you

Read the story for 1 minute 

Rewrite it in your own words for 1,5 minutes

Robert was bored of sitting around waiting for his sister to finish her homework, so he decided to go outside and play in the garden.

He sat himself down on the grass and stared grumpily up at the sky, before realising that there was something strange up there.

Summarize / Rewrite

Once upon a time, there was a treasure hunter called Indiana. One day, Indiana decided he wanted to hunt for buried treasure on the Island of Wonder. Unfortunately, he got lost.

Summarize / Rewrite