Academic Listening Tests Course

Academic Listening Tests Course

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Course Content:

We’ve released a new course that will improve your academic listening note-taking skills. This listening course is designed to improve your lecture note-taking skills using PowerPoint slides and longer lectures. There are five video lectures on a range of subjects, detailed PowerPoint slides (PPTs) for note taking, and comprehension questions (open answer questions, gap fill, table completion and multiple choice) to check your understanding. This course will give you authentic university lecture listening practice.

Key skills

  • English Level B2-C2.
  • 12-15 hour course.
  • 5 lessons (2 hours each).
  • Academic topics.
  • 10-minute lectures.
  • PPT slides (for note-taking).
  • Comprehension questions.
  • Lots of listening practice.
  • Transcripts and answers.
  • Duration: 40 Days.
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What will learn on the course?

The course is divided into five lessons: Each lesson includes vocabulary building, PPT slides, video, comprehension questions and answers.

Example of a course on Air Pollution.

Task 1: Introduction
Do some research and take some notes on the following questions:

  1. What do you know about air pollution?
  2. How would you define ‘air pollution’?
  3. What are some of the issues with air pollution?
  4. What are governments doing to address air pollution?

Task 2: Vocabulary

Check these words from the lecture:

  1. Emissions.
  2. Pollutant.
  3. Detrimental.
  4. Particulate matter (PM) / ozone, carbon monoxide (CO) / nitrogen oxides (NOx).
  5. Fossil fuels.
  6. PM2.5.
  7. World Air Quality Report.
  8. Hazardous.
  9. Respiratory diseases (emphysema).
  10. Premature death.
  11. AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
  12. Not all the words are included…

Look at the reference list sources used and make a note of the names as these will be referred to in the lecture.

References used in the lecture

Amann, M. et. al., (2020). Reducing global air pollution: the scope for further policy interventions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences [pdf]. 378, 2183. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2019.0331 [Viewed 03.04.2022].

IQAir, (2021). World’s most polluted cities 2020 (PM2.5) [online]. Available at: https://www.iqair.com/world-most-polluted-cities [Viewed 03.04.2022].

McCarthy, N., (2020). Report: Air pollution from burning fossil fuels cost the global economy $3 trillion in 2018 [online]. Available at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/02/12/report-air-pollution-from-burning-fossil-fuels-cost-the-global-economy-3-trillion-in-2018-infographic/?sh=3dacc3e16f8a [Viewed 03.04.2022].

National Geographic Society (2022). Air Pollution [online]. National Geographic Society. Available at: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/air-pollution/  [Viewed 04.04.2022].

OECD (2022). Economic consequences of air pollution [online]. Oecd.org. Available at: https://www.oecd.org/environment/indicators-modelling-outlooks/Policy-Highlights-Economic-consequences-of-outdoor-air-pollution-web.pdf  [Viewed 04.04.2022].

Not all the references included…

Task 3: PPT Slides

Study these slides and try to predict what the lecture will be about:

Only 2 slides as an example. All 17 slides included in paid course.

Task 4: Lecture Video

Listen to the lecture and take notes using the four PPT slides provided: Listen two times only.

In the paid lesson you download the video.

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Task 5: Comprehension Questions

Now use your notes to answer these comprehension questions:

1. Overview: What do these figures refer to? Match the figures to the information.

 Figure Information
1.PM2.5A.The World Health Organisation’s target.
2.110 PM2.5µg/m³B.Most heavily polluted cities are in India.
3.13 out of 15C.PM2.5 levels of the top 50 most polluted cities.
4.Between 106 and 58.D.Hotan in China – The world’s most polluted city.
5.Between zero and ten.E.A global indicator of the world’s most polluted cities.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 

                                                                                                                                             ___ / 5

2. Name THREE health effects of air pollution stated by the National Geographic Society (2022).

i.
ii.
ii.

___ / 3

3. What does this data from the World Bank (2018) refer to?

 DataInformation
i.9 million 
ii.16… 

___ / 4

Not all the questions are here: All questions included in paid lesson.

                         

1. Overview: What do these figures refer to? Match the figures to the information.

 Figure Information
1.PM2.5A.The World Health Organisation’s target.
2.110 PM2.5µg/m³B.Most heavily polluted cities are in India.
3.13 out of 15C.PM2.5 levels of the top 50 most polluted cities.
4.Between 106 and 58.D.Hotan in China – The world’s most polluted city.
5.Between zero and ten.E.A global indicator of the world’s most polluted cities.
1.E2.D3.B4.C5.A

       ____ / 5 

2. Name THREE health effects of air pollution stated by the National Geographic Society (2022).

heart disease / lung cancer / respiratory diseases [such as emphysema] long-term damage of people’s nerves / brain / kidneys / liver / and other organs / [which in turn leads to] shorter life expectancy .
(any of these)

___ / 3

3. What does this data from the World Bank (2018) refer to?

 DataInformation
i.9 million 9 million premature deaths
ii.16… 16% of all…

___ / 4

Not all the answers are here: All answers included in paid lesson.

                         

Air Pollution Lecture Transcript

The Global Cost of Air Pollution

TRANSCRIPT: Hello and welcome to this short lecture on the global cost of air pollution. I’ve divided my talk today into three key parts. I’ll begin with a short definition of air pollution, then I’ll discuss the economic cost of air pollution including the health effects. After this, I’ll look at a number of solutions to help reduce air pollution for developed and developing countries and finish with a summary of the lecture’s key points.

Ok, so let’s begin with a short definition of air pollution. Air pollution concerns the emission of harmful pollutants into the atmosphere which can have a detrimental impact on the health of humans and the planet. These pollutants include particulate matter (PM), ozone, carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) which stem from factories, motor vehicles, forest fires and fossil fuels to name a few. PM2.5 is used as a global indicator of the world’s…

Not all of the transcript is here: Full transcript is included in paid lesson.

Task 6: Post lecture

Here are some post lecture tasks you can do:

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