Talk About English (BBC) Academic Listening 02 Talk About English (BBC) Academic Listening 02

ANNOUNCER:
It’s time for Academic Listening - a series for students at English-speaking universities. Many students find that lectures are the most daunting aspect of their university life. In this programme we’ll start to look at a range of techniques to make listening to lectures easier - with presenter Susan Fearn and members of the World Service class of 2001.

CLIP: Lecture
“Taxes, Quality of Life and Happiness”
In this talk, I will first note a recent political emphasis on "quality of life". Secondly, I will suggest that this contrasts with economic growth as a main - or the main - concern of government …

Susan: Do you, like me, wish you had second chance to hear those university lectures?
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