Listening
 

Study Skills Success activities

The resources below support activities in the Study Skills Success exercises.

Listening for detail
First try the exercises in Study Skills Success. Then follow up by listening to the financial news and writing down all the numbers you hear. Listen again to check your answers (some sites provide transcripts which you can use to help you check). Try the following (note: you may have to download audio components).

Why is it difficult to listen?
Download: PDF (0.1MB)

Listening links
There are lots of opportunities for listening practice on the radio, satelite and terrestrial TV and the Web. Try some of the following:

BBC World Service Radio
programming details and frequencies
Voice of America Radio
programming details
BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
CNN
www.cnn.com
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
www.abc.net.au

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