Identifying supporting points or examples 

Practice for the communicative skill of listening, subskill identifying supporting points or examples.

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: Highlight correct summary
  • Listening: Multiple choice, choose single answer

Click on the link below for more information on the resource Summary of how this subskill is practiced in each resource
Academic Connections 1,
Academic Connections 2,
Academic Connections 3,
Academic Connections 4
understanding important details of lectures and conversations, recognizing speech markers that signal introductions, conclusions, or exemplifications

Academic Listening Encounters: Human Behavior

recognizing examples, applying general concepts to specific data, using examples to illustrate a general point

Academic Listening Encounters: Life in Society

listening for supporting details, listening for signal words

Contemporary Topics 1,

Contemporary Topics 2,

Contemporary Topics 3

listening for details

Lecture Ready 1

Lecture Ready 2

recognizing definitions, examples, and explanations

Lecture Ready 3

recognizing generalizations and support, clarification and emphasis, recognizing comparisons and contrast, identifying causes and effects, understanding definitions, recognizing citations in lectures

NorthStar Listening and Speaking 3

supporting opinions with reasons, listening for details

NorthStar Listening and Speaking 5

supporting opinions with information after listening

Open Forum 2

identifying opinions and supporting arguments

Open Forum 3

identifying restatements and explanations, identifying key phrases that introduce an example

Study Listening

identifying information in lectures on academic topics