Learn to study faster and more efficiently and remember more! Let me show you my favorite system for taking notes, called the Cornell Notetaking System. You will learn a way to take better notes and become a better active listener. I will explain how to use this method and show you an example of it. Using the Cornell template will help you remember more of what you hear in class and better organize your notes. This method will help you if you are a student at a high school, language school or university, or if you attend meetings, conferences or like to study alone! You can practice the Cornell note-taking method with this video on the differences between British and American spelling at https://www.youtube.com/watch?vBG017jvhB7I, or another engVid lesson!

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Hello. My name is Emma, and in today's video I'm going to teach you a great way to listen and take notes. The method that I am going to teach you today will really help you a lot, and I know this because I use this method myself, and I found that it really helped me a lot when I was in college, during meetings, during all meetings. all kinds of different situations. This method really works.

So, before I teach you the method, I want you to think about yourself. I want you to think about: When do you take notes? Okay? When do you listen and when do you take notes? So some of you may be thinking… Maybe you're in college, maybe you're studying, maybe you're in high school, and you have to listen to your teacher's conversations, and you have to take notes to help you. you remember what they say. Maybe you're a graduate and you work in a company, and you have meetings and… Or presentations, and you also have to take notes. So this method works, whether you work or study. Maybe you are taking the IELTS or the TOEFL, this can also help you in the TOEFL test in terms of improving your listening and note taking.

So, how do you take notes? Okay? I know some students, they look at their professor or teacher, and they use their computer, and they just type whatever their professor or teacher says. Is this something you do? Maybe you write your notes, and write down everything your professor says on a piece of paper, or whatever someone says. Well, there are a few problems with these methods, and I'm going to explain some of the problems to you now. So for people who like to take notes on the computer, there are some advantages. You can type very quickly and capture much of what you hear on your computer, and it's easy to save. But the problem with this is that it is a form of passive listening. So often you're not really using your brain to interpret what you're listening to, and you're not actively listening. You're just copying word for word, you're not actually doing anything actively with the material you're listening to. By working on a computer – and I have seen this at my university – many students also end up on Facebook during class or lecture. So they often get very distracted. While they should listen, they actually don't.

So for me personally, and I think for many people, using a computer to take notes is not the best method. Again, it may work for some people, but for many it won't. Often it's actually better to take notes by hand, and the reason is that when you take notes by hand, you have to think about what you're writing because writing takes a little longer than typing. So you organize the material, making it more of an active way of listening. Okay? And they've done psychology studies on this, and they find that it's often better to take notes by hand than to take notes on a computer.

So today I'm going to teach you a way to take notes by hand using the so-called "Cornell Method". This method was developed at Cornell University and many universities even encourage students to use this method because it is very good. So, what is the Cornell Method? Okay, I'm glad you asked. So here I have an example of how you would organize your paper. Imagine this is your paper on which you take your notes. What you can do is create a box like this, where you have a box where you write the title and the date of the lesson. Here you have a square or a rectangle, here you have a rectangle and you have a rectangle. At the bottom. Okay? So in total you have one, two, three, four-four different rectangles.

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