Listening Skill: Listening for Details

Details•Name

•Quantities

•Location

•Time

•Needs and Wants

•Directions, Instructions or Suggestions

•Sentences that come after ?s

Question FormatSome multiple choice questions for details will ask you for TWO answers

•What is stated in the passage

•What is indicated in the passage

•According to the speaker…

•What does the lecturer say

•What does the professor say not to do

•Journalistic questions: who/when/where

Where to find the answer

The information needed to understand a detail question is always stated directly in the passage in the order in which the questions

occur.

•Consultations

•Pay attention to directions telling people what they need and where to go

•Pay particular attention to negative instructions

Where to find the answer

•Lectures•Generally the middle portions of lectures explain the details related to the topic

•People/time/places

Discourse Markers for details