Face the Issues: Intermediate Listening and Critical Thinking Skills - Brossura

Numrich, Carol

 
9780201846720: Face the Issues: Intermediate Listening and Critical Thinking Skills

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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.
Audio programs comprising original radio broadcasts are available for each book. (Audioscripts appear in separate Answer Key for Raise the Issues, Second Edition). Face the Issues:

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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Book by Carol Numrich

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9780201695199: Face the Issues: Intermediate Listening and Critical Thinking Skills

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ISBN 10:  0201695197 ISBN 13:  9780201695199
Casa editrice: Addison-Wesley, 1999
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