LISTENING

LESSON 1
CHAPTER 1
ACADEMIC LISTENING
ENCOUNTERS
 Introduction to note-taking skills

- What?

- Why?

- How to?

- The Cornell method

CONTENTS Unit 1: Belonging to a Group

- Chapter 1: Marriage, Family and the Home

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SKILLS
1. What is note-taking?

- Also notetaking or note taking. You can take notes either when you read or when you
listen

- The practice of writing down or otherwise recording key points of information

SYSTEMATICALLY not randomly

- Involving active listening, connecting and relating information to ideas you already
know
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2. Why notetaking?
Spend 5 minutes sharing your thoughts with your friends

- Improve understanding by making the ideas into your own words

- To minimize your “rate of forgetting”
- Be more focused and time-efficient in your exam revision period
- Assess your own learning progress as you study
- More practically, help you a lot in your future study and profession (listening to lectures, being an
interpreter, secretary, etc.)

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3. How to take notes effectively? (in listening)

- Recognize the main ideas

- Select what is relevant (not everything said needs to be noted down)

- Have a notetaking system that works for you

- Use symbols and abbreviations (you can invent those that work for you only)
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4. The Cornell method

- Probably the most useful method for students at university

- Devised 40 years ago by Walter Pauk, a lecturer at Cornell University in the

United States
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L NOTE-
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Unit 1: Belonging to a Group
Chapter 1: Marriage, Family and the Home

Getting started

1. Do you live in a big or small family?

2. What types of family do you know?

3. How do you define “Family”? Is it always defined by blood relations?

READING AND THINKING ABOUT THE TOPIC

QUESTION: What changes have affected family structure over the past century?
LISTEN FOR NUMERICAL INFORMATION

Before you listen, make some predictions about these

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• Listen and take notes of the following information (paraphrase and use
your own words)

- The kind of family he grew up in

- The age when he came to the US
- The kind of work his mother did
- Two important lessons his mother taught him
- His opinion of having someone as the anchor in their life
KEYS
- The kind of family he grew up in: single-parent family

- The age when he came to the US: 5 years old

- The kind of work his mother did: garment worker, sewing, seasonal

- Two important lessons his mother taught him: housework (survival skills) and the
importance of education

- His opinion of having someone as the anchor in their life: important to have a positive
influencer in life
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