Identifying key information in short announcements and conversations.

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    GCSE

    Candidates must demonstrate the ability to discriminate and extract specific details from auditory sources within public and transactional contexts. The scope encompasses the identification of timeframes, locations, operational changes, and instructions found in transport announcements, weather forecasts, and service broadcasts. Mastery requires the rejection of distractors and the accurate recognition of time references through tense markers and temporal adverbs.

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    Travel and Transport Logistics: Identifying platform changes (Gleisänderung), delays (Verspätung), and connections (Anschluss) in station or airport announcements.
    Public Services and Commercial Transactions: Extracting opening hours, prices, and promotional offers from department store (Kaufhaus) or public service broadcasts.
    Weather and Environmental Conditions: Recognizing numerical data regarding temperatures and specific weather phenomena (Nebel, Glatteis) in forecasts.

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