Pre-Sessional Academic English and Study Skills: Useful Links for Study
Pre-sessional Academic English and Study Skills: Useful Links for Study
Listening and Note-taking
UEfAP listening Lots of tips on lecture listening and lots of practice http://uefap.com/listen/listfram.htm Unilearning note-taking – advice on how to take good notes, quote and paraphrase http://unilearning.uow.edu.au/notetake/ Academic Listening Practice - Lectures
TED - ideas worth spreading (video)
Watch examples of how to make a really good presentation on a range of interesting subjects http://www.ted.com/index.php RSA – similar to TED. Videos (10-30mins) on economics, globalisation, technology, psychology etc http://www.thersa.org/events/video Academic Earth – Huge bank of lectures: many subjects http://academicearth.org/subjects/ British Academy – Social Sciences – sound only http://britac.studyserve.com/home/default.asp Free Science Online – Huge collection from many different universities http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/ Imperial College London – Talks by specialists http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/media/onlinelectures
Lecture Fox – Science Lectures http://lecturefox.com/
WGBH Forum Network – interesting videos about current events http://forum.wgbh.org/
BBC Reith Lectures – Old and New talks by famous experts (sound only) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9 General Listening Practice
British Council – A huge range of audio recordings, frequently updated http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/listen-and-watch 6 Minute English (intermediate) – Short and simple news stories with text and vocabulary http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/ Words in the News (intermediate) – Listen to and read real news stories and get help with vocabulary http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/
Randall's Cyber Listening Lab – many exercises: go to bottom of page for academic listening http://www.esl-lab.com/ Academic Word List – revise the most useful words for university
Listening and Note-taking
UEfAP listening Lots of tips on lecture listening and lots of practice http://uefap.com/listen/listfram.htm Unilearning note-taking – advice on how to take good notes, quote and paraphrase http://unilearning.uow.edu.au/notetake/ Academic Listening Practice - Lectures
TED - ideas worth spreading (video)
Watch examples of how to make a really good presentation on a range of interesting subjects http://www.ted.com/index.php RSA – similar to TED. Videos (10-30mins) on economics, globalisation, technology, psychology etc http://www.thersa.org/events/video Academic Earth – Huge bank of lectures: many subjects http://academicearth.org/subjects/ British Academy – Social Sciences – sound only http://britac.studyserve.com/home/default.asp Free Science Online – Huge collection from many different universities http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/ Imperial College London – Talks by specialists http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/media/onlinelectures
Lecture Fox – Science Lectures http://lecturefox.com/
WGBH Forum Network – interesting videos about current events http://forum.wgbh.org/
BBC Reith Lectures – Old and New talks by famous experts (sound only) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9 General Listening Practice
British Council – A huge range of audio recordings, frequently updated http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/listen-and-watch 6 Minute English (intermediate) – Short and simple news stories with text and vocabulary http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/ Words in the News (intermediate) – Listen to and read real news stories and get help with vocabulary http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/
Randall's Cyber Listening Lab – many exercises: go to bottom of page for academic listening http://www.esl-lab.com/ Academic Word List – revise the most useful words for university