Versant training 1 - repeats

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"Part B: Repeat

In this task, candidates are asked to repeat sentences that they hear verbatim. The sentences are presented to the candidate in approximate order of increasing difficulty. Sentences range in length from three words to 15 words. The audio item prompts are spoken in a conversational manner.

Examples:
Get some water.
Let’s meet again in two weeks.
Come to my office after class if you need help.

To repeat a sentence longer than about seven syllables, a person must recognize the words as spoken in a continuous stream of speech (Miller & Isard, 1963). Highly proficient speakers of English can generally repeat sentences that contain many more than seven syllables because these speakers are very familiar with English words, phrase structures, and other common syntactic forms. If a person habitually processes five-word phrases as a unit (e.g. “the really big apple tree”), then that person can
usually repeat utterances of 15 or 20 words in length. Generally, the ability to repeat material is constrained by the size of the linguistic unit that a person can process in an automatic or nearly
automatic fashion. As the sentences increase in length and complexity, the task becomes increasingly difficult for speakers who are not familiar with English sentence structure.

Because the Repeat items require candidates to organize speech into linguistic units, Repeat items assess the candidate’s mastery of phrase and sentence structure. Given that the task requires the
candidate to repeat full sentences (as opposed to just words and phrases), it also offers a sample of the candidate’s fluency and pronunciation in continuous spoken English." (https://www.pearson.com/english/versa...)

Audios taken from Oxford's Speak Now ESL program.
This video was made for educational purposes only.