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Face the issues : intermediate listening and critical thinking skills / Carol Numrich, in cooperation with National Public Radio

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: White Plains, N.Y. : Longman, c1997Edition: 2nd edDescription: vi, 185 p. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0201846721
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 428.34 NUM
Contents:
1. If it smells like fish, forget it! - 2. Living through divorce. - 3. A couch potato. - 4. The bible hospital. - 5. A boy's shelter for street people. - 6. The four new food groups. - 7. The dirty dozen. - 8. From one world to another. - 9. Attached to crime. - 10. Meet you on the air. - 11. There are worse things than dying. - 12. A healthier way of looking at men and women.
Summary: Face the Issues is an exciting and highly successful approach to listening comprehension and discussion for intermediate and high-intermediate students. Each of the twelve units is based on an authentic radio broadcast taken from National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition." Students are presented with interesting and relevant content in unedited everyday speech including hesitations, redundancies, and various dialectical patterns. - Back cover.
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1. If it smells like fish, forget it! - 2. Living through divorce. - 3. A couch potato. - 4. The bible hospital. - 5. A boy's shelter for street people. - 6. The four new food groups. - 7. The dirty dozen. - 8. From one world to another. - 9. Attached to crime. - 10. Meet you on the air. - 11. There are worse things than dying. - 12. A healthier way of looking at men and women.

Face the Issues is an exciting and highly successful approach to listening comprehension and discussion for intermediate and high-intermediate students. Each of the twelve units is based on an authentic radio broadcast taken from National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition." Students are presented with interesting and relevant content in unedited everyday speech including hesitations, redundancies, and various dialectical patterns. - Back cover.

Accompanied by : 2 sound cassettes. Cassette 1 : Units 1-6 (38 min.) - Cassette 2 : Units 7-12 (46 min.) ISBN 0201695189

ESL Studies : 2ELG20