Students listened attentively during teacher's lecture.

Meaning: The students paid attention to the teacher's lesson.

Choice of Words: Listened means to pay attention to what someone is saying. Attentively means with close attention or concentration. Teacher's lecture means a formal talk given by a teacher to a group of students. When you put them together, it means that the students paid close attention or concentration to what the teacher was saying during the teacher's formal talk.

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