7.1.1 Critical Listening

• Critical listening to commentary and reporting
• Distinguishing description from evaluation
• Recognising exaggeration and loaded language
• Evaluating claims made about performance

• distinguish description from evaluation in commentary
• identify exaggeration and loaded language
• evaluate claims made in sports reporting
• appreciate the need to listen critically to all reporting

“How much of what a commentator says is actually happening?”

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1. Description and evaluation
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Telling what happened apart from what someone thought about it.
2. Evaluating claims
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Testing what is asserted about performance, form and cause.
3. Loaded language in commentary
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Hearing exaggeration and loaded words in sports talk, and separating them from what actually happened.
4. Listening to a match report whole
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Putting description, evaluation, load and evidence together on one spoken sports report.