Listening Skills

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This is where you’ll find short courses about listening and its various skills. Choose a topic from the menu below, click on a question and begin studying with with our free lessons and professional materials. Our Skills Practice courses have been carefully designed to improve English proficiency and academic confidence.

Academic Listening Skills

Lesson 1: Why are academic listening skills so important?

Lesson 2: What are academic listening skills?

Lesson 3: What are academic listening contexts?

Lesson 4: How do I improve my academic listening skills in English?

Listening for Lecture Cues

Lesson 1: What are listening and lecture cues?

Lesson 2: What are organisational listening and lecture cues?

Lesson 3: What are informative listening and lecture cues?

Lesson 4: What are relational and discourse-marking lecture cues?

Listening Practice

Future Technology

Listening Task 1: Beautiful Solar Power

Listening Task 2: Technology Solving Problems

The Environment

Listening Task 1: Saving the Rainforest

Listening Task 2: Solving Global Warming

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