Two names, two columns
The first sentences give you the two people. Head each side of your page with a name. Missed one? Write what they are: "councillor", "owner".
CELPIP GymListening courseLesson 6 · Listening Part 6, viewpoints
Who believes what, and why
One reporter, two people who disagree, and questions that pin a claim to a name. Most marks go when you remember the argument but not whose it was. Give each side a column, and make every claim bring its reason.
5 minutes to read
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Two sides, two columns
Rule a line down your page and head each side with a name as you hear it. Every claim goes under the person who made it, with its reason in a few words. Scroll and watch one report tip back and forth.
Why it scores. The wrong choices are real claims given to the wrong person, or the right person with the other side's reason. What and why together under a name beats both.
Beats claims pinned on the wrong person
A claim arrives with its reason
A claim on its own is half a note. Write what Moreau believes and why, in a few words, because those are the two things the questions ask for.
Across to the other side
Wozniak answers, and the balance swings. Don't ask who's winning: Part 6 asks who said what, never who won.
An answer takes a weight off
Moreau's reply is aimed at his point about the crowds. Note it on her side, and mark his claim as answered.
And it swings back
Wozniak rejects the drone show and gives two reasons at once: cost and wind. Those are what a question will want.
The question reads one column
The questions come after the report, all on one screen. Find the name in the question, then read only that column. The other side's reason will be among the choices.
The reportShould Lake Alder swap its fireworks for a drone show? Councillor Ines Moreau says yes. Patio owner Dave Wozniak says no.
Wozniak rejects the drone show because it
Moreau
- grass fires
- drones drew crowds
Wozniak
- crowds pay his summer answered
- cost, and wind
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Signposts that switch sides
One voice reads both sides, so a small phrase is your only clue that the report has changed camps. Learn the quiet ones: "not everyone's convinced", "for her part", "others see it differently". Move your pen across before the claim arrives. And watch for "what's more", which stays where it is.
Why it scores. With one narrator, there's no change of voice to warn you. Miss one switch, and every claim after it lands under the wrong name.
Keeps your columns honest to the end
Ferreira, for the fareThibault, against it
Foot passengers cost the ferry money on every crossing.
Not everyone's convincedIslanders have no other way to the mainland.
For her partA monthly pass would keep it cheap for locals.
Others see it differentlyDay-trippers would stop coming over.
What's moreThe island café lives on those visitors.
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Attitude words: sceptical, cautiously in favour
Some questions ask how a person feels, and the choices sit close together. Place each person on a line from against to for, by what they actually say. Doubt with the door left open is sceptical. "Yes, provided" is cautiously in favour. Write that one word beside the name.
Why it scores. The wrong choices are often one step too strong or too weak, so "opposed" tempts you when she only wants proof. A place on a line separates them.
Wins the how-does-she-feel questions
Dale: It's a terrible use of tax money, full stop.
opposedMina: I'd want to see the real cost before I believed that figure.
scepticalRhys: In principle, yes, provided the town doesn't borrow for it.
cautiously in favourTess: It's exactly what this town needs.
enthusiastic
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The speaker's own view, kept apart
A reporter tends to stay out of it, then lets an opinion slip in one word or a closing line: "surprisingly", "to be fair", "what neither side mentions". Keep a small box at the foot of your page for exactly those. Anything in a column gets credited to someone who never said it.
Why it scores. When a question asks what the report suggests, the box tells you what the reporter added, apart from what the two sides claim.
Beats the "who actually said that" trap
Councillor Beaulieu says the parking app will end the cash shortfall at the meters.
Lena Hart, a retired teacher, says people without smartphones will be shut out.
Surprisingly, neither of them has asked what happens when the network goes down.
Beaulieu
app ends cash shortfall
Hart
no smartphone, shut out
The reporter's own
"Surprisingly": no plan for a network failure
The reporter suggests that both sides
The clock, spent well
One clock for all six questionsFirst passFind the name in each sentence, and read only that column.
Second passThe how-do-they-feel sentences: the one word beside each name.
The last secondsThe reporter's box, then a guess in anything empty.
Quick hacks for Part 6
Smaller than a move, and just as easy to forget on the day.
- Words"Critics say" is a column too
Not every view arrives with a name. Give the unnamed group its own heading, so its claims don't land under a person.
- PadA plus or a minus before every note
For and against is the whole report. A sign is faster than writing the view, and you can read a column of them at a glance.
- Words"Admits", "concedes", "accepts"
When one side grants the other a point, put a tick in its own column. It's the one place the two agree, and it's easy to file under the wrong name.
- If it slipsMissed whose claim it was? Ask who gains
A cost argument tends to belong to whoever pays, and a safety argument to whoever is at risk. It's a guess, but better than a coin.
Take this into the test
- 1A line down the page and a name on each side, before the first claim.
- 2Every claim goes under its owner, with its reason. Move your pen on the signpost.
- 3A small box at the foot of the page for the reporter's own words.