Face the Issues: Intermediate Listening and Critical Thinking Skills. Third Edition - Tapa blanda

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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

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Face the Issues: Intermediate Listening and Critical Thinking Skills, Third Edition, by Carol Numrich, in cooperation with NPR®, helps intermediate students develop critical thinking skills as they gain insight into American attitudes and values. Each thought-provoking unit is based on an authentic radio broadcast from National Public Radio®. Students develop essential listening strategies such as predicting, looking at language, understanding main ideas and points of view, and focusing on details. Language and concepts are integrated through follow-up critical thinking activities including discussion, debate, values clarification, survey, role play, case study, inteview, and simulation.

 

Audio CDs are available for this title.

 

The third edition features six new units on topical issues such has beauty, art, obesity, gender roles, and the environment. In addition, pronunciation and inference activities have bee added to every unit.

 

Sample Audio

Listen to samples from the Audio CDs:

Unit 2: A Boy s Shelter for Street People

• Listening (5:53)
• Listening for Inference: Excerpt 1 (0:30)
• Listening for Inference: Excerpt 2 (0:20)
• Looking at Language: Usage (0:48)
• Looking at Language: Pronunciation (0:45)
• Exercise 1 (1:11)

See also:

 

Raise the Issues, Third Edition

Consider the Issues, Third Edition