ESL 261 Low-Advanced Listening/Speaking
Updated 8/7/2015
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"**Please note: None of the texts on the list explicitly teach presentations. Please supplement presentation material.
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Title: Academic Encounters Book 4, 2nd ed. Author: Espeseth, Miriam ISBN: 978-1-107-60298-4 Publisher: Cambridge, 2012 |
A highly academic book that focuses on listening, speaking, vocabulary, note-taking, and oral presentation skills. Lectures seem more authentic than other books. Comes with DVDs. Must be supplemented with pronunciation. |
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Title: Lecture Ready 3 w/ DVD Author: Sarosy, Peg and Kathy Sherak ISBN-13: 9780194417167 Publisher: Oxford University Press |
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Title: Quest 3 Listening and Speaking Author: Blass, Laurie and Pamela Hartmann ISBN-13: 9780073253312 Title: Quest 3 Audio Downloads (mp3) ISBN-13: 9780077196288 Title: Quest 3 Video ISBN-13: Publisher: McGraw-Hill |
Supplement note taking skills. All lectures in video format only. |
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Title: Mosaic 2 w/ CD Author: Hanreddy, Jami and Elizabeth Whalley ISBN-13: 9780073332000 Publisher: McGraw-Hill |
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Title: Northstar Listening/Speaking 5, 4th ed. Author: Preiss, Sherry ISBN-13: 978-0133382143 Title: CD for classroom ISBN-13: 9780132336734 Title: DVD for classroom ISBN-13: 9780135058909 Publisher: Pearson, 2014. |
Listenings (authentic interviews), vocabulary, and exercises are interesting and appropriate. However, there are no lectures or note-taking (no longer available in My English Lab either), so they must be supplemented. My English Lab is now included in the new edition (no access code needed). Comes with a classroom audio CD, Teacher Resource e-Text |
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Title: Four Points 1 Author: ISBN-13: Publisher: |
REMOVED:
Contemporary Topics 3 – too simple, not academic enough
Talk It Over – too simple, not academic enough