Carol Numrich Books

NorthStar. Building Skills for the TOEFL iBT. High Intermediate

Face the Issues: Intermediate Listening and Critical Thinking Skills

Raise the Issues: An Integrated Approach to Critical Thinking (Student Book and Classroom Audio CD)

Raise the Issues: An Integrated Approach to Critical Thinking (Student Book and Classroom Audio CD)
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Raise the Issues helps advanced students develop critical thinking skills as they gain insight into American Attitudes and values. It combines original broadcasts from NPRwith authentic articls from publications such as The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and the International Herald-Tribune to present dffering viewpoints on contemporary topics. Each of the ten units provides stimulating content that integrates listening, reading, speaking, and writing. As students clarify, interpret, and evaluate ideas from the material, they improve their command of sophisticated vocabulary and complex structures.The third edition features five new units on topical issues such as international adoptions, immigration, alternative energy, and the place of sports in higher education.See also:Face the Issues, Third EditionConsider the Issues, Third Edition
Raise the Issues
204 pages
8 hours of reading
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Raise the Issues helps advanced students develop critical thinking skills as they gain insight into American Attitudes and values. It combines original broadcasts from NPR® with authentic articls from publications such as The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and the International Herald-Tribune to present dffering viewpoints on contemporary topics. Each of the ten units provides stimulating content that integrates listening, reading, speaking, and writing. As students clarify, interpret, and evaluate ideas from the material, they improve their command of sophisticated vocabulary and complex structures. The third edition features five new units on topical issues such as international adoptions, immigration, alternative energy, and the place of sports in higher education. See also: Face the Issues, Third Edition Consider the Issues, Third Edition
Consider the Issues
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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(R). 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
Face the Issues: Intermediate Listening and Critical Thinking Skills
185 pages
7 hours of reading
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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.
NorthStar. Building Skills for the TOEFL iBT. High Intermediate
236 pages
9 hours of reading
Pearson Longman and ETS combine their expertise in language learning and test development to create an innovative approach to developing the skills assessed in the new TOEFL® iBT test. This three-level series, links learning and assessment with a skill-building curriculum that incorporates authentic test material from the makers of the TOEFL® iBT.
Face the Issues Answer Key
Face the Issues: Intermediate Listening and Critical Thinking Skills, Third Edition, by Carol Numrich, in cooperation with NPR, helps intermediate 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 National Public Radio. Students develop essential listening strategies such as predicting, looking at language, understanding main ideas and points of view, and focusing on details. Language and concepts are integrated through follow-up critical thinking activities including discussion, debate, values clarification, survey, role play, case study, interview, and simulation.
Raise the issues : an integrated approach to critical thinking
Consists of ten authentic radio commentaries from National Public Radio, and articles or essays excerpted from a variety of magazines, journals, and newspapers. Designed for very advanced students of English as a Second Language, the program presents an integrated skills approach to developing critical thinking skills.
Consider the issues. Listening and critical thinking skills
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.