PTE Speaking Re-Tell Lecture

The lecture explains that the class is about the post-emancipation African American history, which in a broader way is about the American history. The course will explore topics like citizenship and what is being an American actually involved.

The lecture is about the Hemingway and his global vision as shown in his literature. Hemingway love to travel and ride about various countries but they especially loved the Spanish language. He wrote “So For Whom The Bell Tolls” a book on Spanish civil war. He was a part of this civil war as a journalist but got involved in it much more than that just like Hemingway ridings Spanish civil war was also a global event as it involved Russia, Germany and Italy as well.

The lecture is about exoplanets which is one of the three our topics that the class is structured into. Exo plants have become known in the last ten years only, they are quite hard to find and the lecturer explains this by giving the example of Sirius which is the brightest star in the sky and actually closes to us but even that is ten light years away.

The lecturer described about the workbook the class needs to be used for their first lab. There are two subsections of the workbook namely experiments and activities. In the experiments section, the workbook gives instructions about experiments and alternative procedures. On the other hand, in the activity section, there are suggestions on projects but no detailed instructions on activities which are supposed to be done by students in their own way. In conclusion, the experiments section is to teach students while the activity section is for their own innovation.

The lecturer described about the old Canadian road between Quebec and Maine which is lost and fell disuse after when the major railway line was completed. The road was built in 1817 and used as a major trading route for livestock, crops, and fish. It was also used by immigrants to escape from famine and cholera epidemic. Until 1850 the movement of people and goods on the road went unhindered. In conclusion, the roads were the major building blocks of human evolution since the beginning of the human civilization.

The lecturer talks about boredom in educational environments, its causes, and effects. She thinks boredom can be experienced if a student finds a class too easy or too difficult. Boredom has been found as the reason behind gambling and drug abuse as bored humans want to experience new challenges. However, boredom also has some positive effects such as increased creativity.

The instrument writers use affects their style. Writing with a quill took a long time so writers tended to write in short sentences. They had a balanced style and their output was small. Writing with a fountain pen led to a more flowing style. writing with a typewriter produced a more journalistic style and writers produced much more work. Some people feel that writers who dictated their work, such as Henry James, became too conversational.

The lecturer talks a lady who worked as a Mandarin translator for spying services. Her job was to listen to mandarin broadcasts and other spying sources and translate anything that was of interest and report to her manager. She was satisfied with her job and felt that she was helping the Government while being a patriot. She didn’t think there was anything wrong with the work that she was doing.

We have indeed all been to the historical library. All of us enjoy the smell of a historical library. But, what is the smell of a historical library? And what does it mean to us? We have been asked to access the environment at another historical library at Saint Paul’s Cathedral, the Wren Library, an incredible place with an intensive smell of old books. And indeed, smell is a
meaningful way to communicate with the environment. It is so important how people perceive the library. An advertising agency did this piece of research because advertisers are interested in interacting with each other and our environment.

The lecture is about the non-governmental organization which may be established by governments, foundations, companies, or individuals. NGOs are highly diverse organizations engaged in a wide range of activities. The number of NGOs in America is 1.5 million and India has around 2 million in 2021. Last but not the least, the speaker suggested that it is hard to define the term NGO. The most common focus is on orientation and level of operation.

The lecturer compares the expenses of education among different European countries. UK spent 1.04% of its GDP on education institutions, which was much lesser compared to other European countries such as Italy, Denmark, and Spain. The expenditure of France is closer to that of the UK. By contrast, Denmark and Finland spend much more than the rest of the European countries. Finland’s education spending is twice that of the UK.

The lecture is about the changes that have taken place in coffee production in Vietnam. The production of coffee has increased from 30 billion to 60 billion for the last 10 years. The huge demand of Europe and America has made Vietnam the second-biggest producer which has greatly affected Columbia’s production resulting in a huge decrease in their coffee output. Changes in people’s drinking habits and population growth also have a great impact on the coffee industry.

The lecture is about Winston Churchill, who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the second world war. Some of his decisions such as restoring the gold standard in 1924 were disastrous. Churchill saw himself as a champion of democracy and was profoundly aware of his own role and destiny.

The lecture is about how animals are able to survive and reproduce in different conditions. They are able to maintain their body underwater, tolerate different temperatures and seasons. The researchers used the frog as an example and put it into the water and boiled the water. The result proved that frogs can adjust their body temperature according to the change in water temperature and therefore survive.

The lecturer talks about brain development. People develop language ability and cognitive ability as the brain grows. Different periods of brain development have different influences on people. For example, in the short term, such as three months, the brain can only develop low-level ability. Childhood brain development has a great impact in terms of sensory pathways, language, and higher cognitive functions.

The lecture is about various kinds of frogs and the variation observed in the number of limbs they have. The phenomenon has existed for many years. Some frogs have more limbs while others have fewer, due to various reasons such as genetic mutation. People also suspect this could be due to the pollution in the rivers in which these frogs live.

The lecture is about human creativity and its meaning for human life. It has three elements including process, people and product. Out of this process is the key element. The speaker emphasizes that the creativity of a finished product is a proxy for the creativity of the person who produced it. Therefore, a creative product should be surprising, original, beautiful and useful. It is necessary for people to have the ability, grit and the right mindset in order to develop creative products.

In this lecture, the speaker talks about the wind power plants. A wind turbine is a device that can convert wind into mechanical energy, which can be used for a water power pump or for an electricity generator. The efficiency of a turbine depends on the wind speed, the number of sails, the area and the angles that sails make to the wind. By bending the angle of blades, the wind hits them and could turn the blades which can be used to generate power. Lastly, the speaker indicates we could make simple windmills to drive electronic devices.

The lecturer discusses 4 reasons to support open borders. Firstly, the speaker believes that people should be allowed to move freely on principle. Secondly, open board contributes to the economy of developing countries, Thirdly, opening borders provides people from developing countries to get richer in developed countries. Final is the humanitarian reason and social justice. In conclusion, the speaker supports opening borders on the ground of fundamental principles and economic, social and humanitarian reasons. Because these take up a little more time, you will only have about 1 or 2 Re-tell Lecture questions to answer in your exam. Fretting about what the lecture says word for word will only distract you from being able to talk about it.

The lecture is about the marshmallow experiment. In the experiment, children are promised a bonus if they don’t eat candy for 15 minutes. The children under 4 years old will eat it at once, while older children can resist for a longer time and thus receiver more extra rewards. In the test, the longer a child can resist the treat has been correlated with higher competency later in life.

This lecture is about citizen empowerment and the non-profit sector. The non-profit sector is worth 1 trillion dollars and there are 700,000 organizations in Australia alone. The United Nations recognizes 37,000 civil society organizations and 3,500 of which was accredited to the World Summit on sustainable development. The best predictor of governmental success is the power and density of a country’s non-governmental associations.

The lecturer talks about a survey of 100 CEO’s in which they were asked for their opinion about what affects the company’s operations most and which area should be concentrated upon with maximum effort. Fifty-eight percent of them mentioned that information technology plays an important role because it is time-consuming and extremely complex. Finally, the speaker mentioned the other two aspects are marketing management and financial management, which are equally important.