Rev: September 3, 2003
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Learning Support Services
Room 259
Set Call Number: EN3.020-CD
Contemporary Topics 3 : Advanced Listening and Note-Taking Skills, 2nd ed. / David Beglar ; Neil Murray (Longman, 2002)
TYPE OF PROGRAM: English as a second language
ACCESSION DATE: September 2003
DESCRIPTION: Gives students practice in the skills they need for academic success.
Advanced
students of English develop listening and note-taking skills as they listen
and
respond to twelve lectures from diverse disciplines, ranging from communication
studies to computer science to psychology. Exercises focus on predicting, identifying
key information and organizational patterns, and summarizing and reconstructing
lectures from notes.
AUDIENCE: advanced ESL
FORMAT: 3 audio CDs
CONTENT TIME CALL NUMBER
CD 1: Units 1-4
CD 2: Units 5-8
CD 3: Units 9-12
EN3.020 Contemporary Topics 3 : Advanced Listening and Note-Taking Skills, 2nd ed.
Materials from Contemporary Topics 3 are presented with special permission of Longman. All rights reserved. Click here for copyright notice.
You will need an MP3 player to listen to these tapes. See our Media Players page for assistance.Units: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
Unit
1: Slang: Talking Cool, p. 5
Unit
1 Quiz
Unit
2: Murphy's Law, p.11
Unit
2 Quiz
Unit3:
Types of Memory, p.19
Unit
3 Quiz
Unit
4:
Actions Speak Louder Than Words, p.26
Unit
4 Quiz
Unit
5:
Marriage: Traditions and Trends, p.35
Unit
5 quiz
Unit
6:
Black Holes, White Holes, and Worm Holes, p.42
Unit
6 quiz
Unit
7:
Animal Talk, p.50
Unit
7 quiz
Unit
8:
Gender Differences in Langage, p.57
Unit
8 quiz
Unit
9:
Fashion and Status, p.65
Unit
9 quiz
Unit
10:
The Making of Genius, p.75
Unit
10 quiz
Unit
11: The New Global Superculture, p.82
Unit
11 quiz
Unit
12: Computer Security, p.92
Unit
12 quiz
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