Synopses & Reviews
Academic Listening Encounters prepares high intermediate ESL students for listening to lectures and taking notes in an English-speaking academic environment. The content focus of this book is human behavior, which includes such high interest topics as stress, intelligence, and friendship. Each chapter explores one of these topics using a variety of listening materials, including informal interviews and authentic classroom lectures. These materials allow students to practice crucial listening skills, such as summarizing what they have heard or listening for implied information; they also serve as stimuli for discussion and note-taking activities.
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Using a content-based approach, Academic Listening Encounters prepares high-intermediate ESL/EFL students for listening to lectures and taking notes in an English-speaking college or university environment. The content focus of the course is human behaviour, which includes such high-interest topics as stress and health, intelligence, and friendship. Each chapter explores one of these topics through a series of tasks, based on the listening, note-taking, and discussion skills such as: listening to directions; listening for details; summarizing; giving oral presentations; using symbols and abbreviations; using telegraphic language.
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This book develops students' listening, note-taking and discussion skills using a variety of recorded authentic interviews and classroom lectures. The Teacher's Manual provides teaching suggestions for the tasks in the Student's Book, as well as an answer key. It also contains a complete listening script, and a photocopiable quiz with answer key for each lecture.
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The teacher's manual for \[I\]Academic Listening Encounters\[/I\] provides the answers to all of the tasks in the book, as well as step-by-step suggestions for teaching the material. It also includes a complete tapescript for all of the material recorded on cassette.