Plan+before+you+speak 11

listen [|here] Speaking Skill 11: PLAN BEFORE YOU SPEAK After you have noted the main points of the reading passage and the main points of the listening passage in the academic integrated reading, listening, and speaking task, you need to read the question and plan your response. **The question will most likely be about how the main points of the reading passage and the main points of the listening passage are related.** Look at the following example of a question in the integrated speaking task on the author Isaac Asimov. Question **How does the information In the professor's lecture add to the information in the reading passage about Isaac Asimov?** You can see that, although the question does not specifically mention "main points" of the reading passage and listening passage, **the question is in reality asking you to show how the main points of these two passages are related.** To prepare a plan for your response, you should look at the notes you have taken on the reading passage and the notes you have taken on the listening passage and focus on how the ideas in-the two passages are related. Look at the plan for a response to the integrated speak­ing task on author Isaac Asimov. TOPIC OF READING PASSAGE: author Isaac Asimov main points about Asimov: • wrote a huge amount of material (more than 500 books) • wrote on a wide variety of topics (literary analysis, history, physics. chemistry, astronomy, science fiction) TOPIC OF LISTENING PASSAGE: how Asimov wrote so much main points about the topic: • Asimov wrote from 7:30 in the morning to 10:00 in the evening • Asimov said, "Writing is my only interest" From this plan, you can see the way that the ideas in the reading passage and the listening passage are related. The plan shows that the reading passage **describes an author who wrote an amazing amount and the listening passage explains how the author accomplished this.**   