Kim Sanabria

The Academic Encounters Second edition series uses a sustained content approach to teach skills necessary for taking academic courses in English. There are two books for each content area. Academic Encounters Level 3 Student's Book Listening and Speaking with DVD Life in Society engages students through interviews and academic lectures on stimulating topics from the field of sociology. Topics include culture shock, gender roles, and ways of solving crime. Students develop crucial listening and note-taking skills, discuss content, conduct interviews, and make presentations. A Student DVD includes all of the academic lectures. Topics correspond with those in Academic Encounters Level 3 Student's Book Reading and Writing Life in Society. The books may be used independently or together.

The Academic Encounters Second edition series uses a sustained content approach to teach skills necessary for taking academic courses in English. There are two books for each content area. Academic Encounters Level 3 Teacher's Manual Listening and Speaking Life in Society contains general teaching guidelines for the course, task by task teaching suggestions, answers for all tasks, and chapter quizzes.

The Academic Encounters series uses a sustained content approach to teach skills necessary for taking academic courses in English. There are two books for each content area. The Teacher's Manual for this title contains general teaching guidelines for the course, task by task teaching suggestions, answers for all tasks, lecture quizzes and quiz answers, and the listening script for the audio program.

The Academic Encounters series uses a sustained content approach to teach skills necessary for taking academic courses in English. There are two books for each content area. Academic Listening Encounters: American Studies engages students through interviews and academic lectures on stimulating topics from the field of American Studies. Topics include civil rights, traditional American values in relation to life today, country music, sports, and the globalization of American slang. Students practice note-taking skills, discuss content, express their personal opinions, and make presentations. A Student Audio CD with the lecture portion of the audio program is included. Topics correspond with those in Academic Encounters: American Studies. Each book may be used independently, or the two books may be used together to form a complete four-skills course. The Audio CD contains supplementary exercises. The corresponding Audio CDs are only sold separately.

NorthStar is a five-level integrated skills series for language learning. The series is divided into two strands: listening/speaking and reading/writing. There are five books in each strand, taking students from the high beginning to advanced levels. The two strands at each level explore different aspects of the same contemporary themes. Each book practices language learning skills through high-interest thematic content. The Student Books are supported by a wide range of components: A Writing Activity Book for each level of the reading and writing strand expands and reinforces the process writing. The Audio Program includes all the reading and listening segments as well as pronunciation exercises on CD or cassette. The Video Program includes 3-5 minute segments for each unit. The segments are thematically linked to the units to add to listening comprehension and offer additional material for discussion or writing. Integrated skills are at the heart of the NorthStar series. When skills are integrated, language is apt to be more authentic, natural and motivating. Integrating skills offers more opportunity for recycling and reinforcing key vocabulary, grammatical structures, and ideas. Students have more ways and more chances to assimilate information and language, thereby facilitating retention of information.

The Academic Encounters series uses a sustained-content approach to help students develop the skills they need to meet the demands of college courses in an English-speaking environment. These class audio CDs contain the listening material for the Academic Listening Encounters: Life in Society Student’s Book. The materials include warm-up listening activities, informal interviews, and a formal academic lecture for every chapter. Academic Listening Encounters: Life in Society is an intermediate to high-intermediate listening, note-taking, and discussion text that introduces students to high-interest topics within the field of sociology, such as peer pressure, gender roles, and the influence of the media. The listening materials provide students with the opportunity to practice crucial listening skills, such as listening for main ideas or listening for examples; the listening materials also serve as stimuli for discussion and note-taking activities, such as summarizing, organizing notes, using telegraphic language, and giving oral presentations.

The Academic Encounters series uses a sustained-content approach to help students develop the skills they need to take college courses in English-speaking environments. Academic Listening Encounters: Life in Society is a listening, note-taking, and discussion text for intermediate to high-intermediate students. It introduces them to stimulating topics within the field of sociology, including such high interest topics as peer pressure, gender roles, and the influence of the media. Listening materials include a variety of warm-up activities, informal interviews, and a formal academic lecture for every chapter. Students have the opportunity to practice crucial listening skills, such as listening for main ideas or listening for examples; the materials also serve as stimuli for discussion and note-taking activities. Pre-listening tasks expose students to vocabulary they will encounter in the interviews and lectures and help them acquire important skills such as building background knowledge of the topic and guessing meaning from context.

The Academic Encounters series uses a sustained-content approach to help students develop the skills they need to meet the demands of college courses in an English-speaking environment. These class audio cassettes contain the listening material for the Academic Listening Encounters: Life in Society Student’s Book. The materials include warm-up listening activities, informal interviews, and a formal academic lecture for every chapter. Academic Listening Encounters: Life in Society is an intermediate to high-intermediate listening, note-taking, and discussion text that introduces students to high-interest topics within the field of sociology, such as peer pressure, gender roles, and the influence of the media. The listening materials provide students with the opportunity to practice crucial listening skills, such as listening for main ideas or listening for examples; the listening materials also serve as stimuli for discussion and note-taking activities, such as summarizing, organizing notes, using telegraphic language, and giving oral presentations.

The Academic Encounters series uses a sustained content approach to teach skills necessary for taking academic courses in English. There are two books for each content area. The Teacher's Manual for this title contains general teaching guidelines for the course, task by task teaching suggestions, answers for all tasks, lecture quizzes and quiz answers, and the listening script for the audio program.