Here are Top 3 frequently asked Retell Lecture questions in recent PTE Academic test (April 2020).
1.Globalization
I’ve been thinking a lot about the world recently and how it’s changed over the last 20, 30, 40 years. Twenty or thirty years ago, if a chicken caught a cold and sneezed and died in a remote village in East Asia, it would have been a tragedy for the chicken and its closest relatives, but I don’t think there was much possibility of us fearing a global pandemic and the deaths of millions. Twenty of thirty years ago, if a bank in North America lent too much money to some people who couldn’t afford to pay it back and the bank went bust, that was bad for the lender and bad for the borrower, but we didn’t imagine it would bring the global economic system to its knees for nearly a decade. This is globalization. This is the miracle that has enabled us to transship our bodies and our minds and our words and our pictures and our ideas and our teaching and our learning around the planet ever faster and ever cheaper. It’s brought a lot of bad stuff, like the stuff that I just described, but it’s also brought a lot of good stuff. A lot of us are not aware of the extraordinary successes of the Millennium Development Goals, several of which have achieved their targets long before the due date. That proves that this species of humanity is capable of achieving extraordinary progress if it really acts together and it really tries hard.
Sample Answer
The lecture is about globalization and its successful achievements. At the beginning of the lecture, the speaker mentioned that the changes of the world over the last decades. Twenty or thirty years ago, people didn’t realize that the chicken caught a cold would results in global pandemic and the deaths, and the bank in North America lent too much money might lead to a global economic panic. The globalization is a miracle that enabled us to transship our bodies, minds, words, pictures, ideas, teaching and learning faster and cheaper. In conclusion, globalization proves the species of humanity is capable of achieving progress when it acts together and tries hard.
2.Super Power
Today we’re going to recount heroic tales of superhuman feats of strength, when in the face of disaster, some people are said to have summoned up incredible physical power to lift a car off of an accident victim, move giant rocks, or like Big John of song, single-handedly hold up a collapsing beam to let the other miners escape. Are such stories true? There are many anecdotes supporting the idea, but we’re going to take a fact-based look at whether or not it truly is possible for an adrenalin-charged person to temporarily gain massive strength. In proper terminology, such a temporary boost of physical power would be called hysterical strength. The majority of them are anecdotal, and interestingly not repeatable; in many cases, the person who summoned the superstrength later tried it again only to find that they couldn’t do it. Basically, what we have is a respectably large body of anecdotal evidence that suggests that in times of crisis, danger, or fear, some people have the ability to temporarily exercise superhuman strength.
Sample Answer
There are heroic tales of superhuman feats, such as some people having incredible power to lift a car or move giant rocks in the face of a disaster. In proper terminology, such a temporary boost of physical power would be called hysterical strength. The majority of them are anecdotal, and interestingly not repeatable. Basically, these anecdotes suggest that in times of crisis, danger, or fear, some people have the ability to temporarily exercise superhuman strength.
3. Dissociation of Personalities
The powerful influence of Stevenson’s text on the discourse ofdissociation is strikingly apparent in the work of American physician and psychologist Morton Prince. Rieber credits Prince with pioneering the phenomenon of popularizing MPD as embodied in a spectacular case. Princes dissociation of a Personality (1905) tells the story of Miss Christine Beau-champ, a pseudonym for Clara Norton Fowler, who, according to Prince, is a person in whom several personalities have become developed.
Sample Answer
Morton Prince is an American physician and psychologist. In his book The Dissociation of a Personality, the character Christine Beauchamp developed several personalities, B1, B2 and B3. Hidden memory exists between the three personalities. B3 knows the existence of B2 and B1, while B2 knows the existence of B1, and B1 knows neither. The strongest personality accounts for most of the time and will take over the others and become the main personality at the end. The case study is helpful for crime investigation and hallucination treatment.
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