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.
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.
Key features:
- Listening Strategies help students recognize language signals and tune in to academic lectures.
- Note-taking Strategies help students manage information intake.
- Discussion Strategies help students participate fully in classroom discussion.
- Themed units align with academic content areas
(48 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Taught by Timothy Taylor
Macalester College
M.Econ., Stanford University
Aside from war and peace, most of today's important public issues are economic ones.
Can U.S. economic leadership be sustained?
Is airline deregulation good or bad?
Should we include environmental and worker protections in trade pacts?
What, if any, are the side effects of minimum-wage laws?
What does it mean for Europe to adopt a unified currency?
Is immigration good for the U.S. economy?
What's the best way to cut pollution?
These 48 lectures address six major themes that cover the entire spectrum of policy debate over our economic well-being and our future:
the forces of competition
America's workers
investing in America's future
budget and monetary policies
trade and exchange-rate policy
a tour of the global economy.
The Region, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, had this to report about Professor Timothy Taylor's course:
"These 30-minute lectures define the issue, give salient facts, use economic reasoning to compare policy options and conclude with Taylor's observations on the issue. They are easy to follow and free of economic jargon.
"Listening to these lectures reveals why Taylor is the recipient of teaching awards from Stanford University and the University of Minnesota. His presentations' facts and concepts are easy to grasp. Also, his use of historical examples and quotes from economists and other notables make his lectures enjoyable, as well as informative. For example, from Dickens' A Christmas Carol, did you know that Bob Cratchit was a better economist than Ebenezer Scrooge?"
After introducing the approach of the course, Professor Taylor gets directly to work.
Знаменитый и всеобъемлющий курс по вопросам современной экономики, напрямую связанных с геополитическими проблемами.
- Listening Strategies help students recognize language signals and tune in to academic lectures.
- Note-taking Strategies help students manage information intake.
- Discussion Strategies help students participate fully in classroom discussion.
- Themed units align with academic content areas
Lecture Ready 2 includes 5 units: Marketing, Social Sciences, Science, Media Studies, Linguistics. Answer key and transcripts.
2 audio CDs of lectures, listening exercises for targeted lecture language in each chapter (ten total).
CD1 (Chapters 1-5), CD2 (chapters 6-10).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.Key features:
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.
Contemporary Economic Issues
