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9.1.1 Selective Listening
English · Grade 10 · 3 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Filtering and extracting information from spoken texts
- Listening selectively when much is irrelevant
- Extracting figures and financial detail accurately
- Recognising what has been left out
What you will be able to do
- filter relevant information from a spoken text
- extract figures and terms accurately
- identify information that has been omitted
- summarise the essential content of a spoken text
Key questions
“How do you find the one thing you need in ten minutes of talk?”
Lessons
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Filtering what matters
40 min · 2 practice tasks · quizFinding the few things you need inside a great deal you do not.
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Extracting figures accurately
40 min · 2 practice tasks · quizGetting numbers and terms exactly right when the detail decides everything.
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What the talk left out
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizAfter extracting figures, asking what was never said, and summarising only what you can defend.