Contemporary Topics 1

Helen Solorzano, Laurie Frazier (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2002 | 2nd edition
Pearson Education (US) (Verlag)
9780130948533 (ISBN)

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Helen Solorzano, Laurie Frazier

2009

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This academic listening and note-taking series prepares students for the challenges of attending university lectures. The texts contain 12 lectures per level, topic preview activities to activate background knowledge, and listening strategies such as predicting, inferring and listening for gist.

The Contemporary Topics Series prepares students for the challenges of college by presenting a wide range of listening and note-taking strategies and skills. Targeting corpus-based vocabulary drawn from the Academic Word List, Contemporary Topics ensures that students will be familiar with the most frequently used academic terms.

Unit 1         Happiness

                  Topic: Psychology

                        Note-Taking Tip: Note main ideas and details

Unit 2         New Kinds of Food

                  Topic: Biology

                        Note-Taking Tip: Note subtopics

Unit 3         Public Art

                  Topic: Art

                        Note-Taking Tip: Note descriptions

Unit 4         Journey to Antarctica

                  Topic: History

                        Note-Taking Tip: Note dates and events

Unit 5         Violence on Television

                  Topic: Media Studies

                        Note-Taking Tip: Note numbers

Unit 6         Too Old to Learn?

                  Topic: Linguistics

                        Note-Taking Tip: Listen for signal phrases

Unit 7         Are We Alone?

                  Topic: Astronomy

                        Note-Taking Tip: Listen for theoretical questions

Unit 8         Do the Right Thing

                  Topic: Ethics

                        Note-Taking Tip: Note definitions

Unit 9         A Good Night's Sleep

                  Topic: Public Health

                        Note-Taking Tip: Note causes and effects

Unit 10       Negotiating for Success

                  Topic: Business

                        Note-Taking Tip: Note examples

Unit 11       Risking It

                  Topic: Statistics

                        Note-Taking Tip: Note comparisons and contrasts

Unit 12       The Electronic Brain

                  Topic: Technology

                        Note-Taking Tip: Choose the best note-taking techniques

Appendix A: Academic Word List

Appendix B: Affix Charts

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.5.2002
Verlagsort	Upper Saddle River
Sprache	englisch
Maße	213 x 279 mm
Gewicht	244 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9780130948533 / 9780130948533
Zustand	Neuware