Contemporary Topics Introductory

Academic Listening and Note-Taking Skills (High Beginner)

Jeanette Clement, Cynthia Lennox (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

112 Seiten

2009
Pearson Education (US) (Verlag)
978-0-13-207517-6 (ISBN)

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This 4 level series makes academic lectures accessible to students who are preparing for college or university classes in English. Students develop listening and note-taking skills while listening to academically diverse lectures.

What causes a society to collapse? What’s it like to grow up as a third culture kid? How has microcredit changed people’s lives?

You’ll find the answers to these and other questions in Contemporary Topics Introductory, by Jeanette Clement and Cynthia Lennox (Series Editor: Michael Rost), which features college lectures from several academic disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, and economics. Contemporary Topics Introductory prepares students for the challenge of college lectures with practice in a wide range of listening, speaking and note-taking skills and strategies. The lectures (available on CD and DVD) were filmed in realistic academic setting before line student audiences.

DVD Features

Realistic college lectures from a range of academic disciplines (also on audio CDs)
Student discussions of the lectures (also on audio CDs)
Instructors’ Presentation Points
Coaching Tips that guide students as they take notes
Subtitles for lectures and student discussions

Course Features

Corpus-based vocabulary drawn from the Academic Word List
Practical listening and note-taking strategies
Note-review practice that allows students to analyze their note-taking skills and consolidate their understanding of the lecture
Academic research and speaking tasks: presentation, discussions, and role plays
A Teacher’s Pack for busy instructors with:

Suggested bonus activities
Teaching notes
Answer keys
Audioscripts
Simulated TOEFL® Listening Test for each unit

See also:

Contemporary Topics 1 (Intermediate)

Contemporary Topics 2 (High Intermediate)

Contemporary Topics 3 (Advanced)

UNIT 1a ARCHAEOLOGY

What Can We Learn from the Past?

UNIT 1b ARCHAEOLOGY

What Causes a Society to Collapse?

UNIT 2a ANTHROPOLOGY

Culture Shock

UNIT 2b ANTHROPOLOGY

Third Culture Kids

UNIT 3a HEALTH SCIENCES

New Diets

UNIT 3b HEALTH SCIENCES

Food Addictions

UNIT 4a BUSINESS

High- and Low-Context Communication

UNIT 4b BUSINESS

Managing International Business Meetings

UNIT 5a ECONOMICS

Five Tips for Your Financial Future

UNIT 5b ECONOMICS

Microcredit: Changing Lives

APPENDIX A: ACADEMIC WORD LIST

APPENDIX B: AFFIX CHARTS

CD/DVD TRACKING GUIDES

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.2.2009
Verlagsort	Upper Saddle River
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 274 mm
Gewicht	220 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	0-13-207517-2 / 0132075172
ISBN-13	978-0-13-207517-6 / 9780132075176
Zustand	Neuware