English Listening Skills: How to Guide Attention and Understand Document Information

Okay, so first, what was decided at the last meeting at Rediret chocolates that they needed to get more information so that the team could make a decision? How many documents did they provide? Two, a summary of the information they found and the questions they planned to ask in a survey and in a focus group. So it's clear that they're not finished with their work. They have plans to do more consumer research.

Just look at the expressions they used to point people's attention to certain parts of the documents. Please look at page three of the report. Please take a look at the table on page four. The most important information is on page four. When you report on the information you found in your research, you can use expressions like these. If you look at table three, you'll see the results. You can see the total at the bottom of table three.

You noticed that Eric and Tina helped their colleagues find the tables and information in different places in the document. They pointed out the location with expressions like these. Notice that they used the before each location. That's because they're referring to one specific location in the document. When data is given in a table, these expressions are useful to talk about where something is.

In the documents, we need to point out text that we've emphasized in some way. Let's look at the document, answer the questions. Which number is at the top on the right? Which number is at the bottom of the second page? Which number is on the first page at the bottom on the left? Look at the information in the table. Answer the questions. What attraction is underlined? Which words are capitalized? What numbers are highlighted? Which row is in bold? What is the arrow pointing to? Which column has the attendance figures?