How to take notes when listening

Taking notes is a good skill to have when practicing your listening.

The one thing that you don't want to do is try and write everything down as this is almost impossible.

You need to focus on the key words and phrases.

Don't write full sentences.

Use abbreviations where possible.

Listen out for signposting.

Here is a good video by the BBC that goes over some tips to help you with this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kxF1-jkz-U


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