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: 
<ul>
<li> Develops essential listening strategies, including predicting, looking at language, understanding main ideas and points of view, focusing on details, and note-taking. </li>
<li> Fosters critical thinking skills through follow-up activities that include discussion, debate, values clarification, and writing assignments. </li>
<li> Integrates language and concepts through sophisticated grammar and vocabulary activities. </li> </ul>
 Audio programs comprising original radio broadcasts are available for each book. Consider the Issues Features: <ul>
<li>Twelve thought-provoking units -- six new to this edition -- emphasize critical thinking activities such as discussion, debate, and values clarification. </li>
<li>New topics include cell phone courtesy, globalization, medicine as business, philanthropy, how technology is blurring boundaries between home and work, and the influence of media on young adults. </li>
<li>New pronunciation strand provides practice with native English sound patterns. </li>
<li>Inferencing questions encourage students to find implied meanings. </li> </ul>
 Audio Sample Listen to a sample from the audio CDs: From Unit 1: A Courtesy Campaign (4:55) See also: Raise the Issues, Third Edition Face the Issues, Third Edition

Consider the Issues: Listening and Critical Thinking Skills, 3rd Edition

Reference

Numrich, Carol

English as a Second Language

Pearson Education ESL

The Face the Issues, Consider the Issues, and Raise the Issues Answer Key provides answers to all exercises in the Student Book. This academic listening and speaking series uses original National Public Radio broadcasts to provide a context for listening comprehension and discussion. As students develop listening strategies and critical thinking skills, they also learn to integrate grammar and vocabulary activities into their everyday speech and writing.

Consider The Issues Answer Key

The Issues Series Audio Program provides the audio for all listening exercises. This academic listening and speaking series uses original National Public Radio broadcasts to provide a context for listening comprehension and discussion. As students develop listening strategies and critical thinking skills, they also learn to integrate grammar and vocabulary activities into their everyday speech and writing.

Consider the Issues: Listening And Critical Thinking Skills

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Tuning In offers intermediate students a unique opportunity to explore different listening genres from a variety of real-world sources. Authentic listening selections, including commercials, folk songs, oral histories, and call-in radio shows, provide a rich context for developing language skills. Engaging listening segments allow student to explore timeless themes such as love, volunteering, and childhood memories. Pre-listening activities help focus students on the theme and vocabulary while post-listening exercises provide practice with language functions, pronunciation, grammar, and critical thinking. Listening for Inference activities encourage students to infer the speaker's meaning, listen for attitudes and feelings through tone of voice, and interpret context. Unit wrap-up activities allow students to compare and contrast the three listening selections, analyze the linguistic components of each genre, and create a text of their own.

Tuning In: Listening and Speaking in the Real World

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

A listening/speaking textbook design for low-intermediate students with two distinguishing features: completely authentic listening material, and significant use of inference-level comprehension questions.

TUNING IN AUDIO CD (2) TX

Arts & Photography

Music

Tuning in: Listening and Speaking in the Real World Answer Key

Longman Publishing Group

Northstar Building Skills for the TOEFL iBT (Advanced) : Teacher's Manual with ETS Scoring Guide

Northstar Building Skills for the TOEFL iBT: Advanced

Test Preparation

Boyd, Frances

TOEFL & TOEIC

Pearson/Education

Consider the Issues helps high-intermediate and advanced students develop critical thinking skills as they gain insight into American attitudes and values. Each thought-provoking unit is based on an authentic radio broadcast from NPR ® . Students develop essential listening strategies, such as predicting, looking at language, understanding main ideas and points of view, focusing on details, and making inferences. Language and concepts are integrated through follow-up critical thinking activities including discussion, debate, values clarification, survey, role play, case study, interview, and simulation. The fourth edition features six new units on topical issues such as social network privacy, reasons people choose not to marry, and bad driver behavior. In addition, each unit features integrated focus on language and pronunciation activities, as well as new discourse analysis activities. Note: this is the standalone book, if you want the book/CD order the ISBN below; 0133424553 / 9780133424553 Consider the Issues with Consider the Issues Audio CD Package consists of 0132314894 / 9780132314893 Consider the Issues 0132314908 / 9780132314909 Consider the Issues Audio CD

Consider the Issues

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Consider the Issues Audio CD

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.        Consider the Issues Features:      Twelve thought-provoking units -- six new to this edition -- emphasize critical thinking activities such as discussion, debate, and values clarification.   New topics include cell phone courtesy, globalization, medicine as business, philanthropy, how technology is blurring boundaries between home and work, and the influence of media on young adults.   New pronunciation strand provides practice with native English sound patterns.   Inferencing questions encourage students to find implied meanings.     Audio Sample   Listen to a sample from the audio CDs:  From Unit 1: A Courtesy Campaign (4:55)     See also:      Raise the Issues, Third Edition   Face the Issues, Third Edition

Consider the Issues: Listening and Critical Thinking Skills (Student Book and Audio CD) (3rd Edition)

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