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Contemporary Topics 1: Intermediate Listening and Note-Taking Skills, 2nd ed. / Helen Solorzano, Laurie Frazier (Pearson, 2002)

Rev: January 27, 2004
University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Set Call Number: EN2.069

Contemporary Topics 1: Intermediate Listening and Note-Taking Skills, 2nd ed. / Helen Solorzano, Laurie Frazier (Pearson, 2002)

TYPE OF PROGRAM: English as a second language

ACCESSION DATE: January 2004

DESCRIPTION: Gives students practice in the skills they need for academic success. Intermediate
students of English develop listening and note-taking skills as they listen and respond to
twelve lectures from diverse disciplines, ranging from art to media studies to biology.
Exercises focus on predicting, identifying key information an dorganizational patterns
and summarizing and reconstructing lectures from notes. ISBN (CDs) 0130948578

AUDIENCE: intermediate ESL
FORMAT: Originally CDs ; available only on LSS website (password protected)

EN2.069 Contemporary Topics 1. Presented by special permission from Pearson, a Longman publishing group. All rights reserved.

Unit Introduction | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |

Introduction

Unit 1: Happiness
Listening
Quiz
Vocabulary

Unit 2: New Kinds of Food
Listening
Quiz
Vocabulary

Unit 3: Public Art
Listening
Quiz
Vocabulary

Unit 4: Journey to Antarctica
Listening
Quiz
Vocabulary

Unit 5: Violence on Television
Listening
Quiz
Vocabulary

Unit 6: Too Old to Learn?
Listening
Quiz
Vocabulary

Unit 7: Are We Alone?
Listening
Quiz
Vocabulary

Unit 8: Do the Right Thing
Listening
Quiz
Vocabulary

Unit 9: A Good Night's Sleep
Listening
Quiz
Vocabulary

Unit 10: Negotiating for Success
Listening
Quiz
Vocabulary

Unit 11: Risking It
Listening
Quiz
Vocabulary

Unit 12: The Electronic Brain
Listening
Quiz
Vocabulary

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