Yesterday we watched David Epstein's TED talk on improving athletic performance over time, and worked on selecting key information, supporting information and then analysing the relevance of each section to the purpose of listening.
Today we are working on recognising the key idea which Epstein is discussing when he mentions each of the athletes and other topics in our worksheet. Once we have renamed the key information, it becomes easy to write our sentences analysing how relevant each topic is to the purpose of our listening.
For example, the discussion of Jesse Owens and Usain Bolt is actually about track technology. It shows that one reason athletes are improving is because track technology has improved dramatically. The changes in track technology account for a big part of the difference between the run times of Owen and Bolt.
Our next step, after we have completed the table, is to write a summary of Epstein's argument, and to explain how each topic contributes to the argument.
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