Friend of a friend: a lecture on how urban legends travel
A university lecture on the vanishing hitchhiker and the Halloween 'poisoned sweets' scare, explaining what makes an urban legend and why such stories survive; students follow the argument, learn precise vocabulary and summarise the lecture.
C2Adults60 minLecture
About this lesson
A C2 listening lesson (lecture). Dialogues and stories to listen to, with transcripts, speed control and ready-made questions.
- Level
- C2
- Skill
- Listening
- Type
- Lecture
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 60 minutes
- Topic
- Halloween
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Listening (read aloud), Multiple choice, True / False, Gap-fill
- Key words
- urban legend, variant, plausible, at one remove, coin (a term), gullible, disprove, folklorist
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Follow the structure and argument of an academic lecture
- Understand precise vocabulary for evaluating stories and evidence
- Summarise a lecture and apply its ideas to legends they know