Self study Tip

An effective study exercise to improve your listening skills is to listen and read the transcript at the same time. It will help you recognise how…

Listening for keywords

First, listen to this section from Charlton’s interview: Next, listen to the section as many times as you like and fill in the missing words:

A closer look at natural speech

Download worksheet (it may be useful to print it out) Listen again and read the script at the same time. Now cross out (delete) ALL…

Language tricks for fact checking

Listen & Read šŸŽ§ Along with the strategies we saw in the last lesson, there are some simple things you can do when you donā€™t…

Recap

What can we take away from this lesson? Well, first and foremost, we have learned that even native speakers find it difficult tounderstand each other.…

Let’s check!

Did you get these points? If you want to check, listen once more and read the transcript: I = Interviewer  S = Sarah Baxter I…

Let’s get the details

Listen again and write down the tactics Sarah uses for understanding Mark and her advice to her international colleagues.

Sarah from Chicago

We are now going to listen to one of Mark’s American colleagues, Sarah Baxter from Chicago, talking about the problems she has understanding Mark. Listen…

Reflect

Take a few minutes to think about what this means. Write your thoughts in your workbook (p. XX)

Let’s check!

Did you get all the three points Mark mentioned? Now listen and read the transcript at the same time Iā€™ve been working here now for…

A guy from Essex

We are going to listen to a guy called Mark Davies. He works for an international company in London. Mark has quite a strong Essex…

Your experience

Think about your own language > Letā€™s think about English now > > Think about these questions. > Go to page XX of your workbook…