Students are shown how a typical lecture is organised, using extensive excerpts and transcripts from authentic lectures on high-interest topics from a wide range of academic disciplines.
vocabulary, extension and post-lecture activities to encourage students to discuss, research and write about ideas raised in the lectures strategies to help students recognise lecture organisation and know how to evaluate and predict information a focus on acquisition of vocabulary - especially from the Academic Word List - and the recognition of language cues preparation for academic testing through TOEFL-style test questions, which appear throughout the text Samples Preview sample pages from Learn to Listen 1.