Retell a short event and explain an opinion aloud
| English | 中文 | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|
| retelling | 转述 | zhuǎn shù |
| causal link | 因果联系 | yīn guǒ lián xì |
A decision before an answer
- A retelling that lists to rain下雨、car汽车、school学校 may retain vocabulary but loses why the speaker changed the plan.
- Your goal: Retell heard events with their causal and chronological relationships.
Read the relationship
- The new level-four oral sample has five tasks: two retellings with forty seconds each, one picture response with three minutes preparation and two minutes speaking, and two question responses with three and a half minutes preparation and two minutes speaking each. The full sample takes about twenty minutes including ten minutes preparation.
- Describe a picture for two minutes after preparation.
Why did 小陈 change transport?
Rain is the stated cause; no other cause is given.
Use the defining rule
- In retelling, identify the starting situation, the event that changes it and the result. Keep who did what to whom and why. You may reorganise wording without reversing the event. If a detail is uncertain, do not invent a replacement; preserve the relationships you understood. Teachers keep the original listening text hidden until feedback.
- Answer a spoken question with reasons and a concrete example.
A picture does not prove two people are relatives. Say:
A cautious inference respects the limits of the image.
Check the conditions
- For the picture, prepare visible facts and a cautious account of relationships. Say left左边 or the back后面 only where the spatial relationship is visible. Develop connected sentences about actions and setting instead of racing through nouns. Mark an inference as possible rather than certain when the image does not establish it.
- Answer a spoken question with reasons and a concrete example.
Original hidden teacher text: small小to lay out陈preparation准备骑车去school学校，but可是early morning早上to rain下雨(completed / change)了。he / him他先查(completed / change)了public transport vehicle公交车(concept of) time时间，afterwards后来and / with和to study at the same school同学in the same place一起坐车到school学校。 Faithful retelling: small小to lay out陈because因为to rain下雨not have / haven't没有to ride a bike (motorbike…骑车，rather而是查好(concept of) time时间back后and / with和to study at the same school同学to sit坐public transport vehicle公交车to go去(completed / change)了school学校。 It preserves the cause, changed transport and companion without copying every word.
Complete the changed plan: 他没有骑车，____坐了公交车。
不是/没有…而是… contrasts the rejected and actual choices.
Apply the task format
- For the question, choose a position, a reason and an example. Acknowledge a condition when needed: I / me我more更to like喜欢…,but不过if如果… . The response should be sustained speech, not memorised lines unrelated to the question. Record intelligibility, organisation and content before correcting individual forms; the human observation remains separate from local written checks.
- Answer a spoken question with reasons and a concrete example.
Retelling is not inventing a new story. A smooth account with the wrong cause or outcome needs content feedback.
Which answer fits this case?
Retell heard events with their causal and chronological relationships
A retelling must use every original word in the same order.
Meaning and relationships must remain, while wording may change.
Keep the distinctions
- retelling to pass on (stories)转述 — Reconstructing a heard account while preserving its central information.
- causal link karma因果connection联系 — A relationship explaining why an event or choice occurred.
- Retell heard events with their causal and chronological relationships.
- Describe a picture for two minutes after preparation.
- Answer a spoken question with reasons and a concrete example.
Match each term with its precise meaning in this lesson.
Keep the distinctions stated in the teaching example.
Put this lesson’s reasoning or event sequence in order.
The order follows the stated process; check each stage before the next.