Delta Academic Objectives: Listening and Note-Taking Skills Teachers Book

Delta Academic Objectives: Listening and note-taking skills has been written to prepare students for academic listening, placing emphasis not only on practice with extended listening passages but also on continued language development through four main areas: Language Focus, Listening for Production, Listening for Meaning and Vocabulary Focus. Delta Academic Objectives: Listening and note-taking skills develops essential comprehension skills in the context of real-life talks, presentations, and conversations with over 180 hours of audio material. Longer listening passages help students' ability to follow such talks, presentations, and conversations for the longer periods of time common in academic and work environments. Language Focus sections help students develop their note-taking skills, as well as their ability to recognize the underlying structures of talks and presentations. Listening for Production and Listening for Meaning sections offer students opportunities to further apply listening strategies to help prepare for listening in real-life academic situations. Vocabulary Focus activities are designed to help students increase their lexical range, giving them experience - in context - with lower-frequency vocabulary, as well as developing their ability to use words and phrases from the Academic Word List. The Teacher's book contains a range of valuable features which greatly add to the teaching experience: includes full answers accompanied by the aims of activities, providing clarity for teachers; provides rationales for what is covered in each area of every unit, giving teachers background to the skills/strategies and making connections between them; offers additional teaching ideas to help less experienced teachers of EAP, and suggestions how to extend/differentiate activities; and includes additional photocopiable worksheets that expand further on key elements from each unit.