Make+the+response 12

listen [|here]  Speaking Skill 12: 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 to the integrated speaking task on author Isaac Asimov and a sample response based on these notes.  TOPIC OF READING PASSAGE: author Isaac Asimov  main points about Asimov: • wrote a huge amount of material (more than 500 books) <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: justify;">• wrote on a wide variety of topics (literary analysis, history, physics;,chemistry, astronomy. science fiction) <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: justify;">TOPIC OF LISTENING PASSAGE: how Asimov wrote so much <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: justify;">main points about the topic: <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: justify;">• Asimov wrote from 7:30 in the morning to 10:00 in the evening <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: justify;">• Asimov said, "Writing is my only interest" <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: justify;">//In this set of materials, the reading passage discusses an author who wrote an amazing amount of material, and the listening passage explains how the author accomplished this.// <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: justify;">//The reading passage explains that Asimov wrote a huge amount of material, more than 500 books; in total. In addition he wrote books on a wide variety of topics; such as: literary analysis, history, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and science fiction.// <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: justify;">//The listening passage explains how Asimov managed to accomplish all this; work. Asimov wrote all day long, from 7:30 in the morning until 10:00 in the evening. Moreover he was interested only In writing, saying, "Writing is my only interest."// <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: justify;">You should notice that this response begins with a topic statement showing the relationship between the information in the reading passage and the listening passage. Two supporting paragraphs describing the main points of the reading passage and the listening passage follow the topic statement. The transitions **in addition**, **such as**, and **moreover** are used to show how the ideas in the supporting paragraphs are related. <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: justify;">