The necessity of oral scientific discourse listening comprehension development is due to the lectures available in a classroom and online. The examination, performed to inspect students' abilities to record the content of the popular scientific lecture, demonstrated the complications the students face. The training activities and experiments were made to provide the support for the students in listening comprehension and adequate note-taking. The approach is based on the division of listening into three parts: pre-listening, while-listening and post-listening. The first stage is connected with teaching the students to make hypotheses about the oral discourse content, raising awareness of its terminology. The second stage deals with creation the ability to separate the scientifically relevant information from the irrelevant one. The relevant information is responsible for the presentation of the scientific material while the irrelevant one establishes the lecturer's contact with the audience. The second stage is also connected with teaching to recognize the text's prosody and intonation. The third stage deals with the analysis of the listeners' ability to note-take the information which is scientifically valid. Three sets of listening perception training followed by the experiments were performed. To monitor the soundness of approach, the tests of the students' proficiency in taking down the content, preceded by training, were carried out.