Student Book, Contemporary Topics
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. www.longman.com/contemporarytopics
Unit 1 Happiness Topic: PsychologyNote-Taking Tip: Note main ideas and detailsUnit 2 New Kinds of Food Topic: BiologyNote-Taking Tip: Note subtopicsUnit 3 Public Art Topic: ArtNote-Taking Tip: Note descriptionsUnit 4 Journey to Antarctica Topic: HistoryNote-Taking Tip: Note dates and eventsUnit 5 Violence on Television Topic: Media StudiesNote-Taking Tip: Note numbersUnit 6 Too Old to Learn? Topic: LinguisticsNote-Taking Tip: Listen for signal phrasesUnit 7 Are We Alone? Topic: AstronomyNote-Taking Tip: Listen for theoretical questionsUnit 8 Do the Right Thing Topic: EthicsNote-Taking Tip: Note definitionsUnit 9 A Good Night's Sleep Topic: Public HealthNote-Taking Tip: Note causes and effectsUnit 10 Negotiating for Success Topic: BusinessNote-Taking Tip: Note examplesUnit 11 Risking It Topic: StatisticsNote-Taking Tip: Note comparisons and contrastsUnit 12 The Electronic Brain Topic: TechnologyNote-Taking Tip: Choose the best note-taking techniquesAppendix A: Academic Word ListAppendix B: Affix Charts
