PTE Summarize Spoken Text

 

PTE Summarize Spoken Text

PTE Listening Section Question Topics	PTE Questions per task (November 16, 2021)	Duration per task
Summarize spoken text	1 - 2	60-90 seconds to retain  50-70 words, 10 minutes to write

1 Summarize spoken test

Task

After listening to a recording, write a 50–70 word summary.

Prompt Length            Skills Assessed                   Time to Answer

60–90 seconds           Listening and writing           Not applicable

How to answer this question

For this item type, you will hear an audio recording and will need to write a 50–70 word summary of what you heard.

You have 10 minutes to listen and write your summary.

The audio begins to play automatically. You are only able to listen to the audio recording once.

The Word Count at the bottom of the screen counts the number of words you write. Make sure to write a minimum of 50 words, but no more than 70 words.

There are also cut, copy and paste buttons, which you may choose to use while constructing your summary.

Cut: Select text from your answer that you wish to remove and left-click “Cut”.

Copy: Select text from your answer that you wish to copy and left-click “Copy”.

Paste: Place the cursor where you wish to paste the cut/copied text and left-click “Paste”.

            Some useful tips and strategies to learn for Summarize the spoken text

1. Make sure your pen and notepad are ready before lecture starts.
2. Write down around 6/7 broken sentences or group of words.
3. Hit important names, dates, places, things, technical terms and quotes.
4. You can write short forms and abbreviations just to remember.
5. If you skip something, don’t try to remember it. Better go ahead.
6. While making notes, avoid any types of article and spelling errors.
7. Write capital letter for the first letter in the sentence.
8. Unlike Re-tell lecture, you can make 4/5 sentences.
9. Don’t make mistake in spelling.
10. Don’t repeat the same words/meaning.
11. Don’t write abbreviations/ contractions ( short for of the word/ letter like, ‘Don’t’.
12. Don’t use slang/ informal language.
13. You will be listening to a short recording in each task, all of which will relate to academic subjects such as humanities, natural sciences and social sciences.
14. Don’t worry, you won’t need to be particularly knowledgeable about these subjects, as all of the information needed to answer the questions can be found in the recordings.

                                                Marking Criteria

Content	2
Form	2
Grammar	2
Spelling	2
Vocabulary	2

                       

Useful templates for Summarize spoken text

Template-1

The speaker was discussing ………..( topic)………… She/he mentioned that................Moreover, she/he talked about………………….She/he described…………………In conclusion, the lecture suggested that……………

(19 words)

 

Template- 2

The mentioned lecture was about……….(topic)………..and several points were mentioned. Firstly, the speaker described …………( idea 1)……….Secondly, she/he talked about ……(idea 2)……….Moreover, she/he mentioned…………Overall, the lecture suggested that……………..

(26 words)

PTE Summarize Spoken Text Practice 1

Listen to the following text, take notes of the main ideas, and write a 50 to 70-word response. You have ten minutes to complete the task.

So, my mother’s a pediatrician, and when I was young, she’d tell the craziest stories that combined science with her overactive imagination. One of the stories she told was that if you eat a lot of salt, all of the blood rushes up your legs, through your body, and shoots out the top of your head, killing you instantly. She called it “high blood pressure.”

This was my first experience with science fiction, and I loved it. So when I started to write my own science fiction and fantasy, I was surprised that it was considered un-African. So naturally, I asked, what is African? And this is what I know so far: Africa is important. Africa is the future. It is, though. And Africa is a serious place where only serious things happen.

So, when I present my work somewhere, someone will always ask, “What’s so important about it? How does it deal with real African issues like war, poverty, devastation or AIDS?” And it doesn’t. My work is about Nairobi pop bands that want to go to space or about seven-foot-tall robots that fall in love. It’s nothing incredibly important. It’s just fun, fierce and frivolous, as frivolous as bubble gum — “AfroBubbleGum.”

 

Notes:
• Mother paediatrician young crazy stories
• Blood shoots out the top of your head— “high blood pressure”
• Science fiction / fantasy = unAfrican
• “Africa is the future, Africa is serious.”
• “What is important about your work? War, poverty, AIDS?
• It’s not imptnt. It’s fun, fierce, frivolous.
• It’s AfroBubbleGum

Summarise Spoken Text Answer:

The speaker was discussing her music and African heritage. She mentioned that her mother was a pediatrician and told her crazy stories when she was young. She talked about how she was told that Africa is the future and is serious. She described how when people ask if her work is about poverty, war or AIDS, she says it isn’t, suggesting that it is fun and frivolous like bubblegum—AfroBubbleGum.

(70 words)