Re-tell Lecture — Bài giảng ngắn
PTE Speaking practice questions in the real exam format and timing.
Questions
Read the lecture ONCE, then re-tell it in your own words in 40 seconds without looking back. (Đề thi thật cho bạn NGHE bài giảng. Ở đây để dạng chữ — phần được chấm là khả năng tóm ý và diễn đạt lại, không phải nghe.)
Model answer
Written by 8020 teachers. Do not memorise it — take the structure and the way ideas are developed, then speak about your own life.
Vocabulary you can use today
- language acquisition
- thu dac ngon ngu — mot trong nhung chu de hay gap nhat
- innate
- bam sinh — /ɪˈneɪt/ trong am thu 2
- implication
- y nghia, he qua — /ˌɪmplɪˈkeɪʃən/ thuong gap cuoi bai giang
- challenged this view
- phan bac quan diem nay — cau hay trong re-tell
- proposing
- de xuat, dua ra — /prəˈpəʊzɪŋ/ trong am thu 2
- environmental input
- yeu to moi truong — doi lap voi innate capacity
Common traps for Vietnamese speakers
Re-tell Lecture la task kho nhat PTE Speaking vì bạn phải nghe VÀ nói. Khong ai nho het bai giang — chieu chien la ghi lai 3-4 tu khoa trong 10 giay ghi chu. Khung 4-cau ("discusses... explains... also... concludes") hoat dong khi ban co it du lieu. Du ban khong hieu 50% bai giang, neu ban dung khung va nhep nhip tot, diem van kha. Tranh lap lai tu nguyen van tu bai giang — PTE score engine phat hien. Dinh nghia lai bang tu cua ban: "water absorbs heat" → "the capacity of water to store thermal energy".
Try this topic and see your band
Record 90 seconds. You get four criteria, the exact words that slipped, and your own sentence rewritten two levels up.