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ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES
3. What are the five places where life during the workday is fastest? And the
slowest?
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4. What are five factors that places with the fastest pace have in common?
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Summarize the lecture
A good way to help remember a lecture is to put the key ideas into your own
words. This will also help you know that you understood all the information
Note-taking Strategy and that your notes are complete.
As soon as possible after a lecture, put the key ideas into your own words and
speak them out loud to a study partner or to yourself.
Summarize the Imagine this situation: your friend had to miss class because she was ill. The
lecture next day, she asks you to tell her quickly what the professor said in the
lecture. What would you tell her to give her the idea of the lecture?
• Topic of the lecture
• The big picture of the lecture ( the most important ideas)
• A few important points and examples
This is the same information that you use when you summarize.
Language for 5. Read these expresiions for summarizing. Can you add others to the list?
summarizing The professor talked about . . . He said that . . .
An then he discussed . . . He gave two good examples of . . .
She explained . . . after he wrapped up with . . .
She told us . . .
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6. Review your notes from the lecture. Then explain the main points of the
lecture to your partner. Take turns and talk for 2-3 minutes only.
Did you both understand all the points in the lecture? Did you both catch all
the information?
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