Listening week eight
Note taking
Adapted from Campbell, C. and Smith, J. (2012) English for Academic Study: Listening – Course Book. Reading: Garnet Education
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Preparation work for live session
Preparation work for live session
In this session we're going to discuss the reasons for taking notes in a lecture, learn the principles of effective note taking and practise taking notes from lectures. Before we start, think about your own note-taking habits:
Do you usually take notes during lectures? Why/why not?
How does technology like lecture capture and the VLE affect your motivation to take notes?
If you do take notes, what kind of information do you write down, and do you write it in English or your first language?
What have you been listening to outside of class time to improve your English?
For copyright reasons, access to the materials from Campbell and Smith can only be made available for limited windows of time. Please email phil.martin@york.ac.uk.
Live session discussion - task review
Live session discussion - task review
How accurate was your note-taking in the preparation tasks?
Where did you have most difficulty (e,g, keeping up with the speed of the speaker), and where were your notes closest to the transcript?
We've now looked at both sentence stress and word stress in these micro-skills lessons. What do these terms mean, and how do they help you with listening and pronunciation?
Live session discussion - independent listening
Live session discussion - independent listening
Take turns to tell your classmates about something you've enjoyed listening to in English outside of class. This could be a movie, a favourite music group, podcast or Netflix show.
To get us started, here's one of my songs of 2020 (although it's actually from 2017). It's been a strange summer. Like most people, I was doing all my work from home, so I listened to a lot of music. Charlie Cunningham is someone I listened to a lot; his music is very distinctive. It's hard to tell exactly what the lyrics mean, but I love the way they fit the rhythm of the song:
Go, take off a load, letting your wings unfold and keeping everything down to a minimum, everything a bit low
Tell 'em what you know, but all that you know, though, the truth be told you need it more than you thought
but you're managing, that's how you evened out (out)
I think this song will always remind me of the summer of 2020. What music has a special meaning for you?
Sentence stress isn't only important in lectures...
Life in 18th century London was hard, especially if you were a woman. Options were often limited to back-breaking labour, marrying someone with money, or sex work. Harlots tells the stories of a group of such women in Soho. The acting, writing and costumes are fantastic, and the language is interesting too. The way people speak has changed in 250 years, especially in the way they use modal verbs. "Your sister will realise I'm quite man enough!", "You may wait.", and "you would provoke him to this spite." How would we say these things in modern English?
What film and TV do you like watching? What kind of language do the characters use?
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