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Compare two responses to the same original situation. Notice what is worth keeping and how specific changes make the response clearer.
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Study help: S4 criteria and worked example
S4: Making predictions — review guide
Explain likely next events using visible evidence.
Original learning criteria, not official rating descriptors or an assessment of your response. Use your own evidence before deciding what to revise.
Choose an action that appears likely to happen next.
Connect each prediction to a visible clue and explain the connection.
Use uncertainty where appropriate; do not present an invented future event as something already visible.
Connect evidence to a revision
Ideas and organization
The listener can follow a clear main message supported by relevant details.
Find evidence: Find the sentence that states your main message and the detail that makes it concrete.
Try a revision: Reorder or add a detail so the listener does not have to guess how it supports your message.
Vocabulary
Words describe the situation accurately and communicate the intended meaning.
Find evidence: Choose one general word in your transcript and identify the precise person, action or quality it refers to.
Try a revision: Try a more specific phrase, then say the sentence naturally rather than memorizing unfamiliar wording.
Listenability
A listener can hear the words and follow the phrasing without avoidable effort.
Find evidence: Replay your own recording and note the time of a phrase that is difficult to follow. Text alone cannot establish pronunciation, pauses or intonation.
Try a revision: Record that phrase again, grouping words by meaning and making the important words clear; compare the two recordings yourself.
Task fulfillment
The response serves the requested purpose, audience and situation.
Find evidence: Match what you said to each instruction, using the recording or transcript rather than your intended answer.
Try a revision: Add or adjust the missing communicative action, then practise within the task's response window.
The audio reads these original texts using a synthetic voice. Compare the wording and organization; these clips are not human performances or ratings of pronunciation, fluency or test level.
Example task
Using the same library scene described in the reference facts, predict what will probably happen next. Explain your reasoning.
Situation and reference facts
A woman holds the entrance door open for a man pushing three boxes on a trolley.
A child points to a dropped glove beside an older person seated with a walking stick.
The scene does not establish who owns the glove.
Needs revision
The man will go somewhere. The child will take the glove because it is his glove. Everyone will leave and the library will close. I think this is what will happen next.
Listen to the response needing revision
Synthetic neural voice reading this original example. This is not a human performance, an official sample or a rated delivery model. Listen for how the ideas connect; a fluent synthetic reading does not establish the response’s proficiency level.
Revised response
The man will probably push the trolley through the entrance next, since the woman is already holding the door for him. Once the boxes are inside, she may let the door close and follow him. Beside the bench, I expect the child to draw the older person’s attention to the glove. The child might pick it up and ask whether it belongs to them. I cannot tell who owns it, so it is also possible they will leave it somewhere visible for its owner. Those small actions seem more likely than everyone leaving immediately, because both groups are in the middle of doing something.
Listen to the revised response
Synthetic neural voice reading this original example. This is not a human performance, an official sample or a rated delivery model. Listen for how the ideas connect; a fluent synthetic reading does not establish the response’s proficiency level.
Keep this strength
I think
The original signals a prediction; the revision connects predictions to specific evidence.
What changed and why
Support your claims
Before
because it is his glove
After
I cannot tell who owns it
The revised response avoids treating an unknown owner as a fact.
Try it: Use may or might for a plausible event the scene does not establish.
Add useful detail
Before
The man will go somewhere.
After
push the trolley through the entrance next
A specific prediction is linked to the open door rather than a vague destination.
Try it: Pair each prediction with one visible detail that supports it.
Check your own response: Can you point to a source detail for each prediction?
Study collection: original-contrasts-v1. These examples use their own situations and are not model answers to a saved test attempt.
