Luisteren: detailvraag
A question about one specific point in a long fragment — a reason, a cause, an example, a reply.
282 of our 626 B2 listening items — the largest single group on this paper. The fragments are lectures, interviews, panel discussions and radio documentaries, and they run for minutes. The detail asked for is usually said once, in one clause, and surrounded by related points that sound just as important. The difficulty is not hearing the detail; it is telling it apart from its neighbours: the other causes in the list, the other speaker's version, the same words used in a different sense.
How the exam tests this
Luisteren II: about 40 multiple-choice questions over five or more fragments in 90 minutes, computer-marked, and each fragment plays once. Detail questions name a person and a point: "Welk voordeel noemt De Wit als reactie op het kostenbezwaar?", "Welke oorzaak wordt het meest onderschat?". The wrong options are built from the fragment itself: another item from the same list, what the other speaker said, a word from the fragment taken literally, or the right idea turned around.
What is wrong with this sentence?
Bestrijdingsmiddelen
Most candidates write it exactly like this and lose the mark without knowing why.
The rest of this lesson
The rule, the worked examples, the exceptions and what to do in the exam room open with Mastery, together with every other lesson for this exam.
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