1. Listening Course: Listening Note-taking Methods

This course will improve your academic listening note-taking skills by 100%. You will learn how to take lecture notes effectively and use a range of note-taking strategies. The course includes 27 short listening practice exercises so you will have lots of opportunity to improve your note-taking skills.

What you will learn on this course?

• You will learn a range of note-taking strategies to help take notes for academic lectures.
• You will improve being able to identify main ideas, subsidiary ideas, examples, and data.
• You will practice listening to a range of topics.
• You will write short summaries of lectures to aid understanding.
• You will have the opportunity to check your understanding and comprehension through a range of test-type quiz questions.
• Course Duration: 30 days.

Who is this course for?

• Level B1 (Intermediate) to C2 (Advanced) learners.
• Second language speakers who want to improve their listening skills.
• International students who want to go to an English speaking university.
• International students who are studying at an English speaking university.

Key Concepts Covered:

• Note-taking strategies (linear, mind map, spider gram, flow chart, timeline) .
• Abbreviations and symbols.
• Cornell notes system.
• Listening practice with micro, mini and short lecture practice.
• Building subject-based vocabulary.
• Checking understanding of notes via comprehension questions.
• Checking overall understanding of lecture via comprehension questions.
• Providing post lecture activities to explore the subject in more detail.
• Comprehension quizzes.

There are four lessons included in this course with each lesson taking approximately 2 hours to complete. At the end of each lesson is a quiz that you must achieve 65% to go to the next lesson. When you complete the course, you will receive a certificate.

Duration: This course lasts for 30 days once you pay. Therefore you have 30 days to complete all 4 lessons.

Course Content

The course consists of four lessons; each lesson includes a digital lesson booklet to download

Note-taking Methods 1

• Practice in using a range of note-taking strategies (e.g., linear, mind map, spider gram, flow chart, timeline).
• 5x micro-lecture listening with note-taking frameworks.
• 2x mini lectures with note-taking frameworks.
• 1x 8-minute lecture using an outline.
• Quiz (16 questions).

Note-taking Methods 2

• Practice in using abbreviations and symbols.
• 4x micro-lecture listenings with note-taking frameworks.
• 2x mini lectures with note-taking frameworks.
• 1x 8-minute lecture using an outline.
• Quiz (18 questions).

Note-taking Methods 3

• An introduction to the Cornell notes system.
• 5x mini lectures using the Cornell notes system.
• 1x 8-minute lecture using the Cornell notes system.
• Quiz (22 questions).

Note-taking Methods 4

• A revision of the Cornell notes system.
• 5x mini lectures using the Cornell notes system.
• 1x 6-minute lecture using Cornell notes System.
• Quiz (15 questions).