Level 5 — Advanced · Extended Spoken Explanation
Drill 47: Explaining a Paragraph's Argument Out Loud
Speak a short explanation, then say out loud what job each sentence just did — context, claim, evidence, qualification, conclusion — live practice of Lesson 47's reading question.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this drill, you should be able to:
- Speak a short explanation built from context, claim, evidence, and conclusion
- Narrate each sentence's job immediately after saying it
- Keep the whole thing unscripted and continuous, without long pauses
Introduction
Lesson 47 taught you to ask what job each sentence is doing in a paragraph's argument. This drill asks you to build that argument out loud, live, and narrate the job of each sentence as you say it — the same skill readers use, run in reverse.
Shadow the Model
Sales at the shop have dropped this quarter. That's the context. The real problem is that regular customers are visiting less often. That's the claim. Repeat visits fell by a third compared to last year. That's the evidence.
Listen once, then shadow it. Notice the short, flat tag after each sentence — "that's the context," "that's the claim" — and how naming the job doesn't slow the speaker down much; it becomes a reflex with practice.
Your Turn
Your Turn
Pick a topic you know well. In 40 seconds, say a context sentence, a claim sentence, and an evidence sentence about it, out loud — naming each one's job right after you say it, the way the model above does. Don't write anything down first.
Speak now — context, claim, evidence, each one named as you go
Record Yourself
Record your three-sentence explanation with the job of each one named, then play it back.
Model Answer
Show a model answer
There's no single correct topic. What matters is that all three sentences are present, each one plausibly does the job you named for it (the claim sentence should be arguable, not just another fact), and you kept speaking continuously instead of stopping to plan between sentences.
Vocabulary in Context
narrateverbformal
to describe something as it happens, out loud (বর্ণনা করা)
Often with narrate a process, narrate as you work, narrate aloud
“I narrate each step aloud so the new colleague can follow.”
reflexnounneutral
an automatic response that no longer needs conscious thought (প্রতিবর্ত ক্রিয়া)
Often with reflex response, quick reflex, develop a reflex
“With practice, the structure becomes a reflex rather than a decision.”
Self-Check
Self-Check
- Did you produce a genuine context, claim, and evidence sentence, each doing a different job?
- Did you name each job immediately, without a long pause to think?
- Did you speak the whole thing without writing it down first?
Next: Speaking 48 — Previewing a Structure Out Loud: stating a topic's headings and their purpose before explaining any of the content, live.