Listening evidence: a listening workbook term

Listening evidence is the speech detail that supports your answer to a task.

If your answer is reply by six today, this phrase can be evidence. The number seis alone is weaker evidence because it does not identify the boundary or the day. Keep enough of the phrase to explain the result. You do not need a perfect full transcript. A short checked phrase, linked to the relevant speaker and action, can be sufficient.

A picture can support an interpretation, but it is not speech evidence. Seeing a red umbrella does not prove that the customer chooses it. The speaker might ask for a different colour. Mark whether your information came from the audio, the image or a caption. This distinction stops a correct visual guess from looking like successful word recognition.

Evidence can also support uncertainty. If the conversation ends with pode ser sábado?, Saturday remains proposed. That question is evidence that a final agreement has not yet been heard. Record not stated when the relevant detail is absent. Do not manufacture a phrase just to fill every box in a worksheet.

Use the term in these tasks

• Unpack a landlord's Portuguese voice message
• Hear shop substitutions without losing the request
• Hear a polite refusal hidden inside a Portuguese reply

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