Listening Skills

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Academic Listening Skills

Chapter 1: Why are academic listening skills so important?

Chapter 2: What are academic listening skills?

Chapter 3: What are academic listening contexts?

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

Listening for Lecture Cues

Chapter 1: What are listening and lecture cues?

Chapter 2: What are organisational listening and lecture cues?

Chapter 3: What are informative listening and lecture cues?

Chapter 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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