Make+the+response

Speaking Skill 8: MAKE THE RESPONSE. ==After you have planned your response, you need to make your response. As you make your response, you should think about the following three things: (1) you should start with a topic statement, (2) you should support the topic statement, and (3) you should use transitions to. show how the ideas are related.== Look at the plan for a response on the integrated speaking task on the university's policy on pets and a sample response based on these notes.

TOPIC OF READING PASSAGE: notice from university president on policy against pets on campus main points about the notice:

• reminds university community about policy against pets on campus (except animals for person with disabilities)

• tells campus community that action will be taken against anyone

with pets on campus

TOPIC OF LISTENING PASSAGE: why the president issued the notice

reasons for issuing the notice:

• policy against pets on campus already existed

• professor in Biology Department had pet snake anyway

• snake escaped and got into president's office

• president wanted to remind campus of existing policy

In this set of materials, the reading passage describes a notice from the university president, and the listening passage provides a student discussion of the reason for the notice.

The notice that is described in the reading passage reminds the university community about a policy against pets on campus, except for animals for persons with disabilities. The notice(also) tells the university community that action will be taken against anyone with pets on campus.

In the listening passage,the students discuss the reasons

why the notice was issued.The students say that a policy against pets already existed on campus.(However a professor in the Biology Department had a pet snake anyway,and the pet snake escaped and got into the president's office. The president meet likely issued the notice to remind the campus of the existing policy.