Academic vocabulary in lectures

Recognise the academic words and collocations that carry the meaning of a lecture, predict them from the first half of a chunk, hear them through stress changes in word families, and spell them correctly in IELTS Part 4 notes and TOEFL Academic Talks.

Level C1 25 min5 exercisesLesson 11 of 12 in Listening C1

Trains: IELTS Listening Part 4, TOEFL iBT Listening – Academic Talk

What you'll learn

Recognise high-frequency academic collocations (*shed light on*, *cast doubt on*, *a growing body of evidence*) at natural speed
Use the first word of a collocation to predict the rest, and to predict the word in a gap
Recognise words from the same family when the stress moves (*ANalyse*, *aNAlysis*, *anaLYtical*)
Spell common academic words correctly in note completion

Lesson content

8 steps · 5 exercises · 25 min total

1. Warm-up2 questions
2. LearnThe skill and the strategy
3. ModelSee how it's done
4. Practice 1Note completion (IELTS Part 4) + 1 more
5. Practice 2TOEFL-style Academic Talk questions + 1 more
6. Exam tips3 tips
7. Key vocabulary12 words
8. SummaryReview and finish

Start lesson