Book map Unit title and topics


1 Listening and lectures Problems of listening


Differences between academic cultures


2 Introductions to lectures Migration


Britain and the European Monetary Union Globalization


Magistrates’ courts


3 Identifying key ideas in lectures


Franchising


■ Thinking about key ideas ■ Identifying key points in a lecture ■ Distinguishing key points from examples


■ Signposting and highlighting key points


4 Note-taking: Part 1 Britain’s traffic problems


The East-Asian economic miracle


5 Note-taking: Part 2 Language learning


Changes in the world economy


Health in the UK


6 Introducing new terminology


Embedded words European Union:


regulations and directives Market dominance and monopoly


7 What lecturers do in lectures


Doing market research Social learning Contestable markets


8 Digressions Social learning


Questionnaire design Integrated rural development


■ Reasons for digressions ■ Identifying digressions


■ Common expressions in lectures


■ Macrostructure of lectures


■ Word families (2)


■ Introducing new terminology ■ Introducing terms and concepts


■ Weak forms of function words


■ Reasons for taking notes ■ Principles of note-taking ■ Note-taking practice


■ Returning to your notes ■ Using abbreviations and symbols ■ Organizing your notes


■ Sentence stress


■ Word boundaries


■ Word families (1)


Skills focus


■ Listening in different languages ■ Issues in understanding spoken English


■ Listening to lectures


■ Thinking about introductions ■ Functions and language of lecture introductions


■ Listening to lecture introductions ■ Word stress


Microskills


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English for Academic Study


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