Academic Listening Encounters: Life in Society Class Audio CDs: Listening, Note Taking, and Discussion (Academic Encounters) CD

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.