Название: Intermediate Listening Comprehension.
Автор: Dunkel P., Lim P.
Intermediate Listening Comprehension is the first volume in this groundbreaking listening and notetaking series of THOMSON.
This book is designed to familiarize students with the major rhetorical patterns of formal, spoken English.
Lectures and readings from across the curriculum (history, science, anthropology, American studies, and language arts) provide stimulating content-based material for developing comprehension, notetaking, and academic study skills. Carefully sequenced progression of activities, spiraled rhetorical patterns, vocabulary, and structures, integrated speaking practice, pre- and post-listening activities.
The third edition of this groundbreaking listening and notetaking series includes videotaped lectures in DVD . Now teachers can use the audio program with the support of video simulation of an academic lecture experience. Many new and updated lectures with high-interest topics are included.
- This book includes 5 units, focus on: chronology, process, classification/definition, comparison/contrast, causal analysis.
We dedicate this book to the enhancement of intercultural communication and international understanding. We thank all the many students that have contributed to our professional and personal development over the years.
To the Teacher vii
Unit One Focus on:
Chapter 1 Napoleon:
From Schoolboy to Emperor 2
Chapter 2 Pompeii:
Destroyed, Forgotten, and Found 8
Chapter 3 Lance Armstrong:
Survivor and Winner 14
Unit Two Focus on:
Chapter 4 The Internet:
How It Works 22
Chapter 5 Language:
How Children Acquire Theirs 28
Chapter 6 Hydroponic Aquaculture:
How One System. Works 34
Unit Three Focus on:
Chapter 7 A Tidal Wave:
What Is It? What Causes It? How Can We Predict It? 42
Chapter 8 Levels of Language Usage:
Formal and Informal 48
Chapter 9 Power:
The Kinds People Use and Abuse 54
Unit Four Focus on:
Chapter 10 Asian and African Elephants:
Similarities and Differences 64
Chapter 11 Lincoln and Kennedy: Similar Destinies 70
Chapter 12 The Titanic and the Andrea Doria:
Tragedies at Sea 77
Unit Five Focus on:
Causal Analysis 85
Chapter 13 Dinosaurs:
Why They Disappeared 86
Chapter 14 The American Civil War: Why It Happened 94
Chapter 15 Endangered Species:
What Are The Causes? 102
Audioscripts and Answer Keys 109
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