Introductions to lectures


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3.6  CD1: 9 Listen to the introduction to the lecture Magistrates’ courts. Which functions from the checklist in Task 2 does the lecturer use?


Note: At the beginning of the lecture, the speaker refers to ‘John’, the person who has introduced her.


Sound advice:


Listen carefully to the introductions to all your lectures. Doing so may help you to understand the lectures better and take better notes.


Task 4 Microskills: Word stress


4.1  CD1: 10 Listen and complete the sentence from the introduction to Britain and the European Monetary Union.


However,


I am going to spend most of the time today talking about why Britain , and what that said, and still says, about


Britain’s attitude in general to membership of the European Union.


Answer the following questions. 1. Were the missing words ones you already knew? 2.


Sound advice:


A better understanding of the reality behind the pronunciation of English will help you develop your listening skills. One aspect of pronunciation that may cause difficulties in listening is word stress and its influence on the pronunciation of vowel sounds. For example, you may not have recognized adopt in Ex 4.1, either because you expected a


different pronunciation or because you did not hear the initial /ə/. ,


If you already knew the words, did you recognize them when you heard them? If you didn’t, why didn’t you recognize them?


Listening


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