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Templates
Summarize Spoken Text
Instruction: You will hear a short lecture. Write a summary for a fellow
student who was not present at the lecture. You should write 50 - 70
words. You have 10 minutes to finish this task. Your response will be
judged on the quality of your writing and on how well your response
presents the key points presented in the lecture.
Template:
Introduction: The lecture was mainly about ____.
Body: Then the speaker talked about ____ and ____. Furthermore, ____ and
____ were also mentioned in the lecture. Moreover, the lecturer also
stated such words as ___. Additionally, the narrator also discussed ____.
Conclusion: Overall, the lecture suggested highlighting the facts about
___.
How To Use The Template
You will hear an audio which will go for around 40-90 seconds
While the audio starts, you have to make as many notes as you can
Write important notes, dates, places, things, technical terms and
quote
Write keywords which make sense. Try to write keywords which are
nouns or adjective+nouns
For implementing the template one should be concerned about the
quality of words, parts of speech, sentence and tense structure.
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Templates
Summarize Spoken Text
Another Template:
For better results try to write down around 6-7 broken sentences,
phrases and groups of words. Thus you can use this template:
The audio lecture was mainly about ____ . The first crucial aspect /
significant point discussed in the lecture was _<sentence 1/phrase 1>_.
Then the speaker also mentioned that _<sentence 2/phrase 2>_.
Furthermore, the lecturer also emphasized important information about
_(<sentence 3/phrase 3>_.Finally, the lecture concluded that
_(<sentence 4/phrase>)_.
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