IELTS Preparation Series 3, Episode 20: Giving Examples

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Hello, and welcome to Study English, IELTS Preparation. I'm Margot Politis.

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One of the things you will often need to do, in both spoken and written English, is give

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examples. Today we'll look at some of the language you can use for giving examples,

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and also for clarifying.

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First let's listen to someone talking about an analysis of bird songs:

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We're researching the effects of traffic noise on the calling behaviour of birds.

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Normally, if there was no background noise from roads or other human-generated noise,

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they'd be able to hear each other at least 100 metres apart. But where we have loud traffic,

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it's likely they can only hear each other 20 or 30 metres apart.

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We can analyse the frequency of the different notes in the calls. So for example, this is

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the grey fantail - how it would sound at a quiet site.

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She gives an example of one bird call they have analysed, and introduces that with the

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phrase 'for example'.

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So for example, this is the grey fantail - how it would sound at a quiet site.

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For example can be used to introduce the example, as it is here, or it can be placed after the

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example:

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This is the grey fantail, for example.

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But formally, it is better to introduce the example with the phrase. Listen:

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The birds aren't changing their tune very much, so on average, they're only going up

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one note on the musical scale. For example, with the grey shrike-thrush,

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it goes from here to here.

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The speaker makes a general statement about the behaviour of birds then illustrates it

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with one specific example.

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The birds aren't changing their tune very much, so on average, they're only going up

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one note on the musical scale. For example, with the grey shrike-thrush,

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it goes from here to here.