PTE Difficult, Weird, Totally Unknown Retell Lectures With Answers
If the topic is weird or totally unknown. Don’t worry if it doesn’t make sense and make sure you say anything. Today we are going to discuss about “PTE Difficult, Weird, Totally Unknown Retell Lectures With Answers”.
PTE Difficult, Weird, Totally Unknown Retell Lectures With Answers
Suppose this is the topic –
For Transcript Click Here“The invention of a geographic coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene, who composed his now-lost Geography at the Library of Alexandria in the 3rd century BC. A century later, Hipparchus of Nicaea improved on this system by determining latitude from stellar measurements rather than solar altitude and determining longitude by timings of lunar eclipses, rather than dead reckoning.”
If you listen and didn’t understand anything about the topic what they have written. Select the important word from the above paragraph. Example – Geographic coordinate system. So make sure you talk anything about the geographic coordinate system.
Answer – The lecture was about the geographic coordinate system. The speaker explained this system by giving several examples. He explained how the geographic coordinate system was used. In short, the central idea of the lecture was to explain regarding the geographic coordinate system.
So technically, we don’t encourage you to it every time because there are always listening marks awarded from retell lecture. In case of emergency, you haven’t heard any word or you haven’t understood lecture, make sure you don’t keep quite and say 3-4 sentences by paraphrasing them. Best idea is to talk about the topic first – The lecture was about the geographic coordinate system. Next start with the speaker explained the system by giving several examples. He explained how the geographic coordinate system was used (we know this is not related to the paragraph, you will get zero or one mark in the content but still you have the chance to get marks in fluency and pronunciation.
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8:31 pm
Hello
Guys what if I didn’t answer retell lecture and summarise spoken text in pte exam? I mean how much marks I well lose from 90?
Pls I need an explain .
Thanks.
6:55 am
Hello, Sami Abd,
U will lose – 15 marks for Retell lecture and summarise spoken text each.
Explanation –
In both of these, 5 marks are for content, 5 for fluency and 5 for pronunciation.
7:45 pm
honestly, this is my first time to take pte,it’s freakin hard for me specially this retell lecture,describe image, while listening to the answers oh my god i cant even speak like that fluent in 40 seconds,how is this,in 40 seconds maybe i can say 3 sentences only with a lot of hesitations,can anybody tell me about this
9:46 am
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12:47 pm
Hi Sir,
I am lacking scores in Listening section it is not more than 70, please suggest how to increase that to 80.
Regards
Neha
11:53 am
Hi Neha,
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9:56 pm
sir…how we can give free mock test and how we can improve it better
2:31 pm
Thank you so much
1:19 pm
PTE needs to get rid of retell lecture. As a native speaker, this really isn’t a test of a persons command of language but rather their ability to understand and digest a lecture and then produce a summary within 10 seconds. I find this highly inappropriate to be in an English test.