Note-taking at speed

Take useful notes from fast, dense lectures: decide in real time what to keep and what to drop, compress whole sentences into a few symbols without losing the relationships and qualifications, and answer from your notes in IELTS Part 4 and TOEFL Academic Talks.

Level C1 25 min5 exercisesLesson 9 of 12 in Listening C1

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

What you'll learn

Decide in real time what is worth writing and what can be left out
Compress a spoken sentence into a short note that keeps its cause, contrast, condition and degree of certainty
Lay out notes so that the structure of the talk is visible at a glance
Keep going after a missed point and answer questions accurately from your own notes

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: answer from your notes + 1 more
6. Exam tips3 tips
7. Key vocabulary12 words
8. SummaryReview and finish

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