Instructions for an assignment

Instructions for an assignment

Listen to a university teacher giving instructions for an assignment to practise and improve your listening skills.

Do the preparation task first. Then listen to the audio and do the exercises.

Preparation

Transcript

I want to explain a few things about your essay.

First of all, the deadline. The deadline for this essay is October the 18th. Not the 19th, not the 28th, not two days later because your dog was ill or your computer broke – the 18th. If it's late, I won't mark it. I won't even read it – you'll fail the assignment! So, please hand it in on time. You can even hand it in early, if you like!

You can email me the essays at j.hartshorn@lmu.ac.uk. That's H-A-R-T-S-H-O-R-N. I'll reply to say I've got it. If I don't reply within a day, it might mean I didn't get it, so please email me again to make sure. You can also bring a paper copy of the essay to my office, but let's be kind to the trees, OK? Email is better for the trees and for me.

Don't forget that you must reference every idea or quote you use that isn't your own idea. And the last page of your essay should be a list of all the books you used, in alphabetical order, not in the order you used them!

And lastly, make it easy for me to read! That means use a clear font. Arial is best, but Times New Roman is fine too. Not Comic Sans please! Size 12 font for the essay, and size 14 for the titles and subheadings. And use page numbers. Any questions?

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Average: 4.1 (90 votes)

Submitted by Eman Bilal on Sun, 12/10/2025 - 16:20

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I find it difficult to meet tight deadlines and follow strict formatting rules. When the deadline is close, I think font size shouldn’t matter as much.

Submitted by mohdkhalifa on Sat, 16/08/2025 - 11:28

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I love the exercise. it has countine means important

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Submitted by Alberto Lucchesi on Mon, 28/07/2025 - 15:40

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I listened to the audio twice, then I heard it a third time while reading the transcription.

Listening and reading in English are very useful. Try with series or movies. Listen to them in English and with English subtitles, too.

 

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Submitted by VIKO- on Thu, 24/07/2025 - 17:33

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The first, write is difficult for me, and this exercise i have repeat slow

Submitted by 24nilar on Wed, 02/07/2025 - 18:31

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I always do the assignment on the last day of the deadline.
I can't think of anything about the assignment before the deadline.
But I can think and manage to do something for my assignment on the last day of the deadline.
But I know that this habit is not good for a student.
I need to do everything in advance.

Submitted by MGMH9410 on Mon, 12/05/2025 - 03:54

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The activity is exellent. But I need practice my listenig. It´s bad. 

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Submitted by Tmosquera on Tue, 01/04/2025 - 04:25

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To be honest to write essays is quite difficult to me. I usually overthink many aspects as the structure, the main ideas and accurate words. Thinking about those sorts of things makes me slower when I need to write formal documents.

P.S. I really enjoy to listening to different accents, because those represent the real world. You can find a wide variety of styles when you travel globally.

Submitted by moisesnarino on Sun, 30/03/2025 - 20:52

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Teacher has a different accent but I could unnderstand everything.

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Submitted by Mariana_Kharkiv on Thu, 27/03/2025 - 11:51

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I am schocked. I couldn't tell the difference between "I won't" and "I want" by ear. I was completely confused.

Submitted by myway on Wed, 12/02/2025 - 12:12

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ı hearted proffesor, and ı understood onught. thank you for lesson 

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