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Choosing a research topic

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Understand advice and opinions in an academic discussion.

Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.

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Words to know

tutor
A teacher who works with one student or a small group.
broad
Covering a lot of things; not detailed.
survey
A set of questions given to many people.

Answer key

  1. Have you decided on a topic for your project yet?“Decided on a” links together. “Yet” comes at the end of the question.
  2. I'm interested in how people use public transport.“Interested in” links. British English says “public transport”.
  3. That's quite broad, so you'll need to narrow it down.“You’ll” is “you will”. “Narrow it down” means make it smaller.
  4. Maybe I could focus on cycling in our city.“Could” is weak. “Cycling” ends in -ing.
  5. Good, and a short survey would give you useful data.“Give you” sounds like “giv-ya”.

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