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6-9 Essential Academic Skills in English, Vol. 1, Listening to Lectures

Type of practice

• Academic study skills training
• Viewing video clips of academic lectures at a university in the UK, with comprehension and language analysis

Level

• 6-9 (Advanced)

Suitable for

Students preparing for higher education (university, college) where the English language is the primary language of instruction, including:

• Students on University Foundation Course / Advanced Studies Programme
• IELTS preparation

Contents

EASE (Essential Academic Skills in English), Volume 1, Listening to Lectures contains 85 digital video clips from forty authentic lectures. Twenty-five different departments, from Science, Social Science and Humanities faculties are represented. By watching the video clips and answering questions on them, you can improve your academic listening skills and become familiar with lectures given in English.

Units

There are 6 units. Each unit includes an introduction, conclusion, and note-taking and vocabulary exercises. The other elements depend on the theme of the unit.

• Unit 1: Openings
• Unit 2: Structure and organisation
• Unit 3: Functions (i)
• Unit 4: Functions (ii)
• Unit 5: Significance and attitude
• Unit 6: Argumentation

>> See below for further details about the content of each unit

>> See the Index of Video Clips by Unit for details about the content of each video clip organised by unit: unit number & clip ID >> title of lecture, department/centre, name of lecturer).

>> See the Index of Video Clips by Department/Centre for details of where to find video clips by field of study: department/centre, name of lecturer, title of lecture >> unit number & video clip ID)

Access

• Start Menu
  • All Programs
    • English by subject
      • Study Skills or English for Academic Purposes
        • 6-9 EASE Academic Lectures

How to use

Disk required?

• No, the program is pre-installed.

Headphones/microphone needed?

• Yes:
  • For listening to the video clips, headphones/speakers are essential
  • A microphone is not needed

Teachers resources

There is a folder of documentation, including print-outs of reviews and other articles from educational websites.

Publisher

• Warwick University

Contents

Unit 1: Openings

• Introduction
• Opening a lecture
• Introducing a topic
• Talking about earlier lectures
• Structure and structural phrases
• Questions as structure
• Note-taking
• Vocabulary
• Conclusion

Unit 2: Structure and organisation

• Introduction: The structure of lectures
• Opening and closing summaries
• Structure and structural phrases (signalling)
• Markers
• Transitions
• Note-taking
• Vocabulary
• Conclusion

Unit 3: Functions (i)

• Introduction: Functions
• Defining
• Classifying
• Comparing and contrasting
• Exemplifying
• Note-taking
• Vocabulary
• Conclusion

Unit 4: Functions (ii)

• Introduction
• Referring to sources
• Evaluating sources
• Indicating cause and effect
• Indicating purpose
• Interacting
• Recap: Identifying functions
• Note-taking
• Vocabulary
• Conclusion

Unit 5: Significance and attitude

• Introduction: Significance
• Importance markers
• Qualification
• Style and manner
• Attitude
• Non-literal meaning
• Note-taking
• Vocabulary
• Conclusion

Unit 6: Argumentation

• Introduction: What is an argument?
• Thesis: The lecture as argument
• From thesis to antithesis
• Antithesis
• The language and structure of argument
• Towards a synthesis
• A final question: Who produces the synthesis?
• Note-taking
• Vocabulary
• Conclusion: A final message