Let's take notes while listening!

 

Strategy 3: Pay attention to signal words.

In a lecture, you cannot see how the lecture is organized, but you can hear it by listening to signal words like first, finally, however, as a result, etc.

Pay attention to signal words, for they can help you

- get clues to the organization

- predict what will come next

- distinguish between main ideas and examples

 

Practice

Exercise 1 -- Predict through signal words

Exercise 2 -- Listen, and take notes

 

 

 

   

 

 
 

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