Academic skills : listening, speaking, and study skills, Level 2, Student's book, Sarah Philpot and Lesley Curnick

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Academic skills : listening, speaking, and study skills, Level 2, Student's book, Sarah Philpot and Lesley Curnick

Title remainder

listening, speaking, and study skills

Title number

Level 2

Title part

Student's book

Statement of responsibility

Sarah Philpot and Lesley Curnick

Instantiates

• Academic skills : listening, speaking, and study skills, Level 2, Student's book

Publication

• Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011

Note

Accompanied by 2 audio CDs

Accompanying material

2 sound discs (4 3/4 in).

Contents

• 1.Moving on -- Listening New places, new people -- How to listen -- Factors which affect listening -- Speaking Introductions -- Formal, neutral, and informal language -- Asking for repetition -- 2.Island states -- Listening Separated by water -- Predicting content -- Listening for gist (1) -- Taking notes (1) -- Recognizing signposts (1) -- Speaking Talking about countries -- Spoken punctuation (1) -- Helping the listener (1) -- Research Using the Internet (1) -- Reliable sources -- 3.Careers in the media -- Listening Two journalists -- Taking notes (2) -- Recognizing signposts (2) -- Speaking Talking about jobs and studies -- Spoken punctuation (2) -- Sentence stress -- Helping the listener (2) -- 4.Innovations from nature -- Listening Biomimicry -- Using visuals (1 & 2) -- Listening for detail (1 & 2): rephrasing -- Speaking Describing objects -- Defining and describing objects -- Helping the listener (3 & 4) --
• Contents note continued: Research Using the Internet (2) -- Using images -- 5.Conversations -- Listening Welcome to the first day -- Listening for detail (2) -- Distinguishing speakers -- Distinguishing levels of formality -- Speaking Making conversation -- Conversational topics -- Keeping a conversation going (1 & 2) -- 6.Food science -- Listening Functional foods -- Listening for gist (2) -- Taking notes (3) -- Facts and speculation -- Interpreting meaning -- Speaking Expressing approximations -- Helping the listener (5) -- Checking understanding -- 7.Great Lives -- Listening Heroes and heroines -- Taking notes (4) -- Listening for detail (3): opinions and facts -- Speaking My hero -- Presentations -- Spoken punctuation (3): pausing -- Giving opinions, agreeing, and disagreeing -- 8.Communication -- Listening A survey on e-communicating -- Understanding incomplete speech -- Understanding spoken English -- Contractions and linking -- Speaking Asking questions --
• Contents note continued: Asking questions in a survey -- Register (4): speaking to strangers -- Reporting results -- 9.Significant objects -- Listening The Lewis chess set -- Supporting an argument -- Understanding words in context -- Taking notes (5) -- Speaking Machines -- Helping the listener (6 & 7) -- 10.Responsible tourism -- Listening Ecotourism -- Dealing with longer listenings (1 & 2) -- Speaking Transitions -- Dealing with questions -- A presentation -- Vocabulary Development Word stress (1) -- Using a dictionary (1 & 2) -- Review -- Vocabulary Development Synonyms -- Avoiding repetition -- Words stress (2): nouns and verbs -- Review -- Vocabulary Development Collocations (1 & 2) -- Verbs and nouns -- Review -- Vocabulary Development Informal or formal? -- Register (1) -- Multi-word verbs -- Review -- Vocabulary Development Suffixes and prefixes -- Word-building (1 & 2) -- Review -- Vocabulary Development Collocations (3) -- Adjectives and nouns -- Review --
• Contents note continued: Vocabulary Development Register (2 & 3) -- Levels of formality -- One-word verbs -- Review -- Vocabulary Development Adverbs and adjectives -- Modifying adjectives: not very, less, fairly -- Ordinary and strong adjectives: essential, delighted -- Review -- Research Using the Internet (3) -- Museum sites -- Vocabulary Development Compound words -- Compound adjectives -- Compound nouns -- Review -- Vocabulary Development Dependent prepositions

Control code

000049600495

Dimensions

28 cm. +

Extent

79 p.

Isbn

9780194741576

Isbn Type

(Book)

Other physical details

col. ill.

Record ID

u179668

System control number

(OCoLC)780246916