DVD Features: • Realistic college lectures from a range of academic disciplines (also on audio CDs) • Student discussions of the lectures (also on audio CDs) • Instructors’ Presentation Points • Coaching Tips that guide students as they take notes • Subtitles for lectures and student discussions This interactive listening-speaking series prepares students for the challenges of college lectures with a wide range of listening, speaking, and note-taking strategies and skills. The lectures are drawn from a range of academic disciplines and reflect authentic lecture settings, featuring engaging instructors and live student audiences.

Contemporary Topics 1: Academic Listening and Note-Taking Skills, 3rd Edition

Reference

Laurie Frazier

Helen Solorzano

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Pearson Education ESL

Explore fascinating content while building language competence and critical thinking skills. The best-selling NorthStar series offers two strands: a reading and writing strand and a listening and speaking strand. Both strands stimulate students' imagination, encourage critical thinking, and promote personal expression.

NorthStar Basic/Low Intermediate Listening and Speaking, Second Edition (Student Book with Audio CD)

Robin Mills

English as a Second Language

Who are some of the key figures in the history of abstract art? Can video games be good for children? What are some ethical approaches to decision-making? You'll find the answers to these and other questions in Contemporary Topics 1, which features college lectures from several academic disciplines, including art history, media studies, and psychology. Contemporary Topics 1 prepares students for the challenge of college lectures with practice in a wide range of listening, speaking and note-taking skills and strategies. The lectures (available on CD and DVD) were filmed in realistic academic setting before live student audiences.

Contemporary Topics 1 (Student Book + DVD)

Pearson

The NorthStar Audio CDs contain the audio of all listening passages and listening exercises in the Student book . NorthStar, now in its third edition, motivates students to succeed in their academic as well as personal language goals. For each of the five levels, the two strands-Reading and Writing and Listening and Speaking—provide a fully integrated approach for students and teachers.

NorthStar 2: Listening and speaking

Pearson/Longman

Northstar, now in a new edition, motivates students to succeed in their academic as well as personal language goals. For each of the five levels, the two strands – Reading and Writing and Listening and Speaking – provide a fully integrated approach for students and teachers. What is Special about the New Edition? <ul>
<li> New Themes and Updated Content – presented in a variety of genres and in authentic materials – challenge and engage students intellectually. </li>
<li> Enhanced Focus on Academic Skills, more purposeful integration of critical thinking, and an enhanced focus on academic skills such as inferencing, synthesizing, notetaking, and test taking help students develop strategies for success in the classroom and on standardized tests. </li>
<li> A structured approach gives students opportunities for more extended and creative oral practice, for example, presentations, simulations, debates, speeches, public service announcements and more. </li>
<li> A New Design with full color pages, more photos, illustrations, and graphic organizers fosters student engagement and makes the content come alive. </li> </ul>
 MyNorthStarLab , the easy-to-use online companion of the NorthStar series, saves time and improves student results. Saves Time <ul>
<li>With automatically graded exercises for every unit of each book, instructors no longer have to create or grade homework. This gives them more time to prepare classroom lessons. </li>
<li>Instructors can choose exercises and set due dates with just a few clicks. Homework for an entire semester can be set up in less than an hour.</li> </ul>
 Improves Results <ul>
<li>Students have more opportunities to practice English in more ways – from video exercises and audio discussion boards to vocabulary games and academic practice. These new exercises help students learn more English, more quickly. </li>
<li> Immediate feedback on their performance allows students to come to class better prepared. </li>
<li>If students do not pass a section of a unit test, they automatically receive new exercises targeting areas that need improvement.</li> </ul>
The MyNorthStarLab Access Code card is also available on its own, without the Student Book.

NorthStar: Listening and Speaking Level 2

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Contemporary Topics 1: Academic Listening And Note-taking Skills: Teacher's Pack

Longman Pub. Group

The Contemporary Topics Audio CDs provide the audio of all lectures and listening exercises. This interactive listening-speaking series prepares students for the challenges of college lectures with a wide range of listening, speaking, and note-taking strategies and skills. The lectures are drawn from a range of academic disciplines and reflect authentic lecture settings, featuring engaging instructors and live student audiences.

University Success Reading is designed for English language learners preparing for mainstream academic environments. A flexible three-part approach includes intensive and systematic skill development tied to learning outcomes along with authentic essays written by top professors from Stanford University. The Reading strand provides real-life learning experiences that prepare students to become fluent, automatic, and competent readers who can achieve academic autonomy. Highlights • Each part is a self-contained module allowing teachers to focus on the highest-value skills and content. Topics are aligned around science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) content. — Parts 1 and 2 include challenging readings that allow students to engage with the content as they build essential reading and critical thinking skills. — Part 3 provides a truly authentic experience with an extended essay that enables students to apply and expand the skills acquired in Parts 1 and 2. • Additional online readings, skill and vocabulary practices, collaboration activities, and assessments. • Strategies for academic success and soft skills delivered via online videos. • NEW! You can now create unique custom University Success content packs with Pearson Collections

University Success Reading Advanced, Student Book with MyEnglishLab

Laura Eickoff

Maggie Vosters

The NorthStar DVD has engaging, authentic video clips, including animation, documentaries, interviews, and biographies, that correspond to the themes in NorthStar. Each theme contains three- to five-minute segment that can be used with either the Reading and Writing strand or the Listening and Speaking strand. The video clips can also be viewed in MyNorthStarLab.    NorthStar, now in its third edition, motivates students to succeed in their academic as well as personal language goals. For each of the five levels, the two strands-Reading and Writing and Listening and Speaking—provide a fully integrated approach for students and teachers.

NorthStar 2 DVD with DVD Guide

NATASHA HAUGNES

Beth Maher

Contemporary Topics 1 Flip Book

Pearson Education Limited

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Books by Laurie Frazier

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Contemporary Topics 1: Academic Listening and Note-Taking Skills, 3rd Edition

NorthStar Basic/Low Intermediate Listening and Speaking, Second Edition (Student Book with Audio CD)

Contemporary Topics 1 (Student Book + DVD)

NorthStar 2: Listening and speaking

NorthStar: Listening and Speaking Level 2

Contemporary Topics 1: Academic Listening And Note-taking Skills: Teacher's Pack

Contemporary Topics 1: Academic Listening and Note-Taking Skills, 3rd Edition

University Success Reading Advanced, Student Book with MyEnglishLab

NorthStar 2 DVD with DVD Guide

Contemporary Topics 1 Flip Book