When listening to the recording you will have to identify what the main idea is. The main idea is the key point, the general idea or the gist of a message, news report, speech or dialogue. Details support he main idea by telling how, what, when, where, why, how much, or how many. Locating the topic, main idea, and supporting details helps you understand the point(s) the speaker is attempting to express. The main idea is the most important piece of information the speaker want you to know about the paragraphs.
The speaker will state his/her main idea explicitly somewhere in the paragraph. The main idea may be stated at the beginning of the paragraph, in the middle, or at the end. the sentence in which the main idea is stated is the topic sentence of the paragraph.
The topic sentence announce the general theme to be dealt with in paragraph. this sentence provides the focus for the speaker. your strategy for topic identification is simply to ask yourself the question, ''what is this about?'' for example, let's look the text below;
Bullying can take the form of name calling, put downs, saying or writing inappropriate things about a person, deliberately excluding individuals from activities, not talking to a person, threatening a person with bodily harm, taking or damaging a person's things, hitting or kicking a person, making a person do things he/she does not want to do, taunting, theasing and coercion. Bullying can be physical, verbal, psychological, or a combination of these three.
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