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An exciting, proven approach to listening comprehension and discussion, based on authentic radio broadcasts from NPR¿s ¿All Things Considered,¿ ¿Weekend Edition,¿ and ¿Morning Edition.¿ Students are presented with interesting, relevant content in unedited everyday speech including hesitations, redundancies, and various dialectical patterns.
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An exciting, proven approach to listening comprehension and discussion, based on authentic radio broadcasts from NPR¿s ¿All Things Considered,¿ ¿Weekend Edition,¿ and ¿Morning Edition.¿ Students are presented with interesting, relevant content in unedited everyday speech including hesitations, redundancies, and various dialectical patterns.
The series:
- Develops essential listening strategies, including predicting, looking at language, understanding main ideas and points of view, focusing on details, and note-taking.
- Fosters critical thinking skills through follow-up activities that include discussion, debate, values clarification, and writing assignments.
- Integrates language and concepts through sophisticated grammar and vocabulary activities.
Twelve authentic radio interviews on compelling contemporary topics with international appeal, such as loss of family traditions, women in combat, and how environmental issues can affect the economy. Note-taking practice reviews and consolidates important ideas for application in follow-up activities.
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Designed for intermediate to upper-intermediate students, this contains authentic broadcasts from "All Things Considered", "Morning Edition" and "Weekend Edition-Sunday" plus exercises to develop listening and critical thinking strategies such as listening for main ideas and for details. It also aims to help students express and re-evaluate opinions. There is a cassette available separately to accompany the book.
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Face the Issues : Intermediate Listening and Critical Thinking Skills
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