Lecture Ready 1 Student's Book

Ecen the most able student in a traditional classroom can fell overhelmed and umprepared in an academic lecture. Oxford's new series, Lecture Ready: Strategies for Academic Listening, Note-taking, and Discussion, prepares students to encounter academic lectures with skill and confidence.

Students attend actual lectures via DVD after practicing eith targeted lecture language. The lectures include elements of natural speech, such as false starts and digressions, to aid students in recognizing and deciphering language that might otherwise distract them from the meaningful content of a lecture.

Key Features:

*DVD, with academic lectures for students to ciew on their own or in class

*Themed chpters, arranged into units that align with core academic content areas: Social Science, Business, Media Studies, Science, and Humanities

*Academic vocabulary strand, to help students maximize their comprehension of lecture material

*Listening Strategies, to help students recognize and tune in to verbal and nonverbal language markers typically used by professors in the lecture setting

*Note-taking Strategies, to help students manage information intake

*Discussion Strategies, to help students participate fully and smoothy in classroom discussion

*Audio pragram, with all lectures plus exercises targeting specific lecture language

American English