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I think that’s what you said!
DESCRIPTION
In this activity, participants listen to the trainer reading an article from a
magazine or newspaper. At various stages, the trainer invites people to
summarize what they have just heard in order to practice summarizing in a
verbal context. This skill is then reviewed within the whole group and the
exercise repeated. The reviews focus on why summaries are useful in an
appraisal interview, and the activity ends with some of the group
summarizing what has taken place during the activity.
SITUATIONS
Those people who need to develop further their summarizing skills will
benefit from this activity. ...