Student Book, Contemporary Topics 2
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. The twelve lectures at each level are drawn from a range of academic disciplines, and are recorded to reflect natural interaction between professor and students.\...
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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. The twelve lectures at each level are drawn from a range of academic disciplines, and are recorded to reflect natural interaction between professor and students.Each level offers these features: Realistic lectures on topics of current interest. Pre-listening activities designed to activate prior knowledge, to introduce key vocabulary, and to provide notetaking tips, models, and practice. A wide range of listening strategies including predicting, inferring, listening for the main idea, and listening for details. "Using Your Notes" lecture review activities. Projects including in-class discussions, presentations, contact assignments, and research projects. Listening quizzes for each unit. Teacher Packs for each level, including photocopiable quizzes, answer keys, and audioscripts for both lectures and quizzes. Sample audio Listen to a sample form the audio program: Unit 2: English: A Global Language? Lecture (8:45) Click here to order the audio program. www.longman.com/contemporarytopics
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 11Staying 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
