Ready Strategies for Academic Listening, Note-taking, and Discussion prepares students to deal with academic lectures with skill and confidence.The lectures include elements of natural speech, such as false starts and digressions, to provide practice in maintaining focus on the essential core of a lecture. This video contains the filmed lectures that are the centerpiece of each student book chapter. Lectures can be viewed with subtitles. Targeted listening exercises are available on the audio program. 10 filmed lectures accompaning the chapterswith verbal and non-verbal language markers.
New Frontiers: Modern Perspectives on Our Solar System
(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 1823
Taught by Frank Summers
Space Telescope Science Institute
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
New Frontiers: Modern Perspectives on Our Solar System is a visually stunning and richly detailed investigation of what we know about the solar system today. Illustrated with insightful diagrams, amazing computer animations, and scores of spectacular images from telescopes and spacecraft, these 24 lectures show you a new and exciting way to view our celestial neighborhood—all under the guidance of astrophysicist and top astronomy educator, Dr. Frank Summers from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI).
Lecture Ready Strategies for Academic Listening, Note-taking, and Discussion prepares students to deal with academic lectures with skill and confidence.The lectures include elements of natural speech, such as false starts and digressions, to provide practice in maintaining focus on the essential core of a lecture.
This video contains the filmed lectures that are the centerpiece of each student book chapter. Lectures can be viewed with subtitles. Targeted listening exercises are available on the audio program. 10 filmed lectures accompaning the chapters with verbal and non-verbal language markers.
The CNN video news clip activities at the back of the student text are thematically related to each chapter. Activities are designed to recycle themes and vocabulary from each chapter, and to encourage further class discussion and written responses to these real life news iterms.
This video includes 14 chapters accompanied with student book.
The CNN video news clip activities at the back of the student text are thematically related to each chapter. Activities are designed to recycle themes and vocabulary from each chapter, and to encourage further class discussion and written responses to these real life news iterms.
This video includes 14 chapters accompanied with student book.
New Frontiers: Modern Perspectives on Our Solar System 
