Contemporary Topics 2

Stacey Hunter Eleanor Barnes Melissa Leyva, Ellen Kisslinger (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2006 | 2nd edition
Pearson Education (US) (Verlag)
978-0-13-094858-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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.

Inhalt

Unit 1         What's in a Name?

                        Topic: Cultural Anthropology

                        Note-Taking Tip: Identify main ideas

 

Unit 2         English: A Global Language?

                        Topic: Linguistics

                        Note-Taking Tip: Use signal words to organize your notes            

 

Unit 3         High Anxiety: Phobias

                        Topic: Psychology

                        Note-Taking Tip: Note and explain key words

 

Unit 4        TV: What We Watch

                        Topic: Media Studies

                        Note-Taking Tip: Create topic headings and indent subtopics

 

Unit 5        Learning Differently

                        Topic: Education

                        Note-Taking Tip: Note supporting details below main ideas

 

Unit 6        Immigration: Bound for the United States

                        Topic: History

                        Note-Taking Tip: Make columns to note dates and numbers

 

Unit 7         Who's Calling the Shots?

                        Topic: Business Administration

                        Note-Taking Tip: Use symbols and abbreviations

 

Unit 8         Right and Wrong on the Net

                        Topic: Computer Ethics

                        Note-Taking Tip: Make numbered lists

 

Unit 9         Which Way Will It Go?                      

Topic: Environmental Science

                        Note-Taking Tip: Draw arrows to show cause and effect

 

Unit 10       It's in the DNA

                        Topic: Biology

                        Note-Taking Tip: Cluster related ideas in a web

 

Unit 11       Staying Healthy

                        Topic: Public Health

                        Note-Taking Tip: Group related ideas with brackets and arrows

 

Unit 12       Prepare, Prepare

                        Topic: Public Administration

                        Note-Taking Tip: Write down questions as you listen

 

Appendix A: Academic Word List

Appendix B: Affix Charts

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.5.2006
• Verlagsort: Upper Saddle River
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 236 g
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-13-094858-6 / 0130948586
• ISBN-13: 978-0-13-094858-8 / 9780130948588
• Zustand: Neuware