Includes online workbook activation code.

"Paired skills course focusing on critical thinking, academic skills, and language students need most.

Prism is a five-level (A1 to C1), American English paired-skills course (Reading/Writing and Listening/Speaking), created for students who need to develop a range of academic skills. This Level 4 (C1) Listening and Speaking Student's Book prepares students for college classes by developing their listening, speaking, critical thinking, and pronunciation skills, including pronunciation for listening. Special sections teach how to be a successful college student, and the accompanying video program sets the stage for each unit's topic. Inside the book is a single-use code for the online workbook. This provides automatically graded extra practice and works on PCs and Macs." (Publisher's Website)

SCOPE AND SEQUENCE

Unit 1 GLOBALIZATION (Academic Disciplines: Cultural Studies / Sociology)
Watch and Listen:
Listenings:
Listening Skills: KEY SKILL: Activating prior knowledge -- ADDITIONAL SKILLS: Understanding key vocabulary; Using your knowledge; Listening for main ideas; Listening for details; Listening for opinion; Understanding cause and effect; Taking notes; Synthesizing
Pronunciation for Listening:
Language Development:
Critical Thinking:
Speaking: SPEAKING SKILLS: Presenting data; Describing a pie chart; Drawing conclusions from data
Speaking Task: On Campus:

Unit 2 EDUCATION (Academic Disciplines: Communications / Education) Watch and Listen:
Listenings:
Listening Skills: KEY SKILLS: Listening for advice and suggestions; Making inferences -- ADDITIONAL SKILLS: Understanding key vocabulary; Using your knowledge; Listening for main ideas; Listening for details; Listening for opinion; Taking notes; Synthesizing
Pronunciation for Listening:
Language Development:
Critical Thinking:
Speaking: SPEAKING SKILLS: Giving an opinion and making suggestions; Agreeing and disagreeing respectfully; Compromising and finalizing a decision -- PRONUNCIATION: Certain and uncertain intonation
On Campus:

Unit 3 MEDICINE (Academic Disciplines: Health Sciences / Medicine) Watch and Listen:
Listenings:
Listening Skills: KEY SKILLS: Identifying contrasting opinions; Strengthening points in an argument -- ADDITIONAL SKILLS: Understanding key vocabulary; Using your knowledge; Listening for main ideas; Listening for opinion; Listening for attitude; Listening for details; Taking notes; Synthesizing
Pronunciation for Listening:
Language Development:
Critical Thinking:
Speaking:
On Campus:

Unit 4 THE ENVIRONMENT (Academic Disciplines: Ecology / Environmental Studies) Watch and Listen:
Listenings:
Listening Skills: KEY SKILLS: Distinguishing main ideas from details; Taking notes on main ideas and details -- ADDITIONAL SKILLS: Understanding key vocabulary; Using your knowledge; Listening for main ideas; Listening for details; Listening for opinion; Listening for text organization; Summarizing; Taking notes; Synthesizing
Pronunciation for Listening:
Language Development:
Critical Thinking:
Speaking:
On Campus:

Unit 5 ARCHITECTURE (Academic Disciplines: Architecture / Urban Planning) Watch and Listen:
Listenings:
Listening Skills: KEY SKILLS: Understanding figurative language; Understanding strong and tentative suggestions -- ADDITIONAL SKILLS: Understanding key vocabulary; Using your knowledge; Listening for main ideas; Listening for details; Listening for attitude; Taking notes; Synthesizing
Pronunciation for Listening:
Language Development:
Critical Thinking:
Speaking:
On Campus:

Unit 6 ENERGY (Academic Disciplines: Engineering / Physics) Watch and Listen:
Listenings:
Listening Skills: KEY SKILLS: Understanding digressions; Understanding persuasive techniques -- ADDITIONAL SKILLS: Understanding key vocabulary; Using your knowledge; Listening for main ideas; Listening for details; Listening for text organization; Taking notes; Synthesizing
Pronunciation for Listening:
Language Development:
Critical Thinking:
Speaking:
On Campus:

Unit 7 ART AND DESIGN (Academic Disciplines: Design / Fine Arts)
Watch and Listen:
Listenings:
Listening Skills: KEY SKILLS: Inferring opinions; Distinguishing fact from opinion -- ADDITIONAL SKILLS: Understanding key vocabulary; Predicting content using visuals; Using your knowledge; Listening for main ideas; Listening for details; Listening for opinion; Making inferences; Taking notes; Synthesizing
Pronunciation for Listening:
Language Development:
Critical Thinking:
Speaking:
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Unit 8 AGING (Academic Disciplines: Economics / Sociology)
Watch and Listen:
Listenings:
Listening Skills: KEY SKILL: Understanding specific observations and generalizations -- ADDITIONAL SKILLS: Understanding key vocabulary; Using your knowledge; Listening for main ideas; Listening for details; Taking notes; Synthesizing
Pronunciation for Listening:
Language Development:
Critical Thinking:
Speaking:
On Campus: