Face the issues : intermediate listening and critical thinking skills /

Numrich, Carol,

Face the issues : intermediate listening and critical thinking skills / [print] Carol Numrich ; in cooperation with National Public Radio. - third edition. - White Plains, New York : Longman, (c)2007. - 177 pages ; 25 cm.

Beauty is in the mind of the beholder -- A boy's shelter for street people -- A rainbow effect -- Attached to crime -- Their old style is worth keeping -- The Bible hospital -- The baby beeper -- If it smells like fish, forget it -- Home instead -- Living through divorce -- Meet you on the air -- Running on vegetable oil?

Each of the twelve units is based on an authentic radio broadcast taken from National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition". By using material produced for native speakers, students are presented with unedited everyday speech, including hesitations, redundancies, and various dialectical patterns. Exercises develop essential listening strategies such as predicting, looking at language, understanding main ideas and points of view, and focusing on details.



9780131992184

2006010860


English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
Critical thinking--Problems, exercises, etc.
Current events--Problems, exercises, etc.
Listening--Problems, exercises, etc.
Readers--Current events.

PE1128.N277.F334 2007 PE1128