Here are Top 3 frequently asked Summarize Spoken Text questions in recent PTE Academic test (February 2021).

1.Stone Balls

I suppose you wouldn’t expect perhaps to find a mathematician in a museum of historical objects, but actually, the objects that I’ve been drawn to in this museum have quite a lot of mathematical significance. These Neolithic stones, discovered in Scotland, dating back 5,000 years, are probably the first examples of humans exploring the concept of symmetry. And that’s what I do as a practicing mathematician. I spend my life trying to understand what symmetries are possible, in nature and in mathematics and abstractly. And here I’ve got a connection, going back 5,000 years, to people who are already trying to understand – how can I arrange patches on the side of these stone balls in a symmetrical manner? One of the intriguing things about these stones is that we don’t actually know what they’re for. They might have been for divination –trying to predict the future. They might have been part of a game. They look very much like dice, but we don’t really think there is any game associated with them. Maybe they were just for chucking around, they’re very nice in the hand when you hold them.

Or maybe they were symbols of power in the clan. I suppose that’s why I like them because we don’t really know what they are. If I had a theory about why they were doing this it would be that actually, they were starting to be mathematicians, and that here we see the first example of abstract thought at work. That these weren’t for a purpose. Mathematics is a great subject, created a lot of the technology around us, but mathematicians we create our mathematical objects for the joy and the beauty, so it will be lovely to think that these didn’t actually have a use, that they were just really a celebration of what’s possible.

2.Einstein

For thousands of years, philosophers and astronomers and thinkers of all sorts have imagined that the universe, the space around us was rather like this floor in front of us. It was fixed and unchangeable and thins happen on it, just as people walk around. So the stars, the comets, and the planets, and the other heavenly bodies moved around and traced down their parts on this completely unchanging stage of space. In the 20th century, as the result of Einstein’s work that view of the universe was completely transformed. We began to understand that there was no absolutely fixed stage of space at all on which all celestial notions were played out. But in some sense on the larger scale in the universe, the space itself was in the state of a continuous dynamic change. That was a prediction made by Einstein.But it wasn’t Einstein Harold the owner of making the discovery that our universe was really like that.

3. Brand Image

Consumers are the core section of any business. In fact, the whole concept of any business is surrounded by the behavior of consumers. And the values of consumer is a crucial factor. Now, we have to understand a consumer is not to be taken likely. He knows what product he wants. Consumers are extremely smart. They could make decisions about price and value of products in minutes or sometimes in few seconds. So, a business therefore needs to uplift its brand image. Consumers are willing to pay 15 more for quality products. However, the conflict starts when manufacturers failed to meet the expectations. This lies in the basic fundamental of engineering in designing a product. Consumers want products to be softest. But at the same time, they also want product like toilet papers to be light and strong, something which can be easily be torn. The brand Tide is really good example. There was a problem of shaking the washing powder before being put into the machine as it causes the damage of the material of the clothes. Tide had to made up to a lot of expectations for consumers.