Practice for the communicative skill of listening, subskill identifying a speaker’s purpose, tone and attitude.
The PTE Academic item types where this subskill is tested are
- Speaking: Re-tell lecture
- Listening: Summarize spoken text
- Listening: Multiple choice, choose multiple answers
- Listening: Multiple choice, choose single answer
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Summary of how this subskill is practiced in each resource |
Academic Connections 1,
Academic Connections 2,
Academic Connections 3,
Academic Connections 4 |
recognizing a speaker's degree of certainty, attitude and intent, making inferences about a speaker's intention |
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Academic Listening Encounters: Human Behavior
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predicting the content of interviews
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Academic Listening Encounters: Life in Society
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listening for opinions
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Contemporary Topics 1,
Contemporary Topics 2,
Contemporary Topics 3
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practicing listening strategies and skills including critical thinking to recognize a speaker’s attitude
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| NorthStar Listening and Speaking 3 |
inferring attitudes and a speaker’s emotions |
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NorthStar Listening and Speaking 4
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inferring and recognizing a speaker’s attitudes and feelings, identifying assumptions, interpreting a speaker’s emotions, tone, and word usage
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| NorthStar Listening and Speaking 5 |
making inferences based on tone, pace, and vocabulary, making inferences about a speaker’s intention
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| Open Forum 2 |
identifying the purpose of a story or example
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