"Includes integrated digital learning"--Cover.

Introduction

To the Student

UNIT 1: MIND, BODY, AND HEALTH Learning Outcomes: Prepare and deliver an oral presentation on health and healthy habits

Chapter 1: THE INFLUENCE OF MIND OVER BODY
Content: Interview 1 - The Stress of Teaching First-Graders -- Interview 2 - The Stress of Being a Police Officer -- Lecture: Stress and the Immune System
Listening Skills: Following directions -- Listening for specific information -- Listening for tone of voice -- Drawing inferences
Speaking Skills: Predicting the content -- Personalizing the topic -- Comparing information from different sources -- Asking for opinions -- Sharing your cultural perspective
Vocabulary Skills: Reading and thinking about the topic -- Examining vocabulary in context -- Building background knowledge on the topic -- Breaking down words to guess their meaning -- Guessing vocabulary from context -- Learning words as they are used
Note Taking Skills: Summarizing data -- Using telegraphic language -- Summarizing what you have heard

Chapter 2 LIFESTYLE AND HEALTH
Content: Interview 1 - Starting Smoking and Trying to Quit -- Interview 2 - Quitting Smoking and How It Changes Your Life -- Lecture: Risk Factors in Cardiovascular Disease
Listening Skills: Following directions -- Anticipating answers -- Drawing inferences
Speaking Skills: Recalling what you already know -- Predicting the content -- Combining information from different sources -- Asking for confirmation -- Sharing your cultural perspective
Vocabulary Skills: Reading and thinking about the topic -- Examining vocabulary in context -- Building background knowledge on the topic -- Guessing vocabulary from context
Note Taking Skills: Paraphrasing what you have heard -- Using symbols and abbreviations -- Outlining practice

UNIT 2 DEVELOPMENT THROUGH LIFE
Learning Outcomes: Prepare and deliver an oral presentation on a particular period of life

Chapter 3 THE TEEN YEARS
Content : Interview 1 - Being a Teenager in a Different Culture -- Interview 2 - Starting a New Life in One's Teens -- Lecture: Erik Erikson's Fifth Stage of Psychosocial Development: Adolescence
Listening Skills: Recording numbers -- Listening for specific information -- Completing multiple-choice items -- Uses of like in casual speech -- Correcting or expressing a negative politely
Speaking Skills: Examining graphics -- Using background information to make predictions -- Reviewing predictions -- Summarizing what you have heard -- Combining information from different sources -- Sharing your cultural perspective
Vocabulary Skills: Reading and thinking about the topic -- Examining vocabulary in context -- Building background knowledge on the topic -- Guessing vocabulary from context -- Considering different perspectives
Note Taking Skills: Using space to show organizational structure -- Organizational structure

Chapter 4 ADULTHOOD
Content: Survey - The Best Age to Be -- Lecture: Developmental Tasks of Early Adulthood
Listening Skills: Recording numbers -- Summarizing what you have heard -- Uses of get -- Listening for specific information
Speaking Skills: Predicting the content -- Responding to true/false statements -- Identifying who said what -- Sharing your personal perspective -- Eliciting a conclusion -- Applying general concepts to specific data -- Sharing your personal and cultural perspective
Vocabulary Skills: Reading and thinking about the topic -- Examining vocabulary in context -- Building background knowledge on the topic -- Guessing vocabulary from context
Note Taking Skills: Creating a chart -- Paying attention to signal words

UNIT 3: NONVERBAL MESSAGES
Learning Outcomes: Prepare and deliver an oral presentation comparing body language in two cultures.

Chapter 5 BODY LANGUAGE
Content: Interview 1 - Brazilian Body Language -- Interview 2 - Korean Body Language -- Interview 3 - Japanese Body Language -- Lecture: Body Language Across Cultures
Listening Skills: Reading nonverbal cues -- Responding to true/false statements -- Determining which way this or that is pointing -- Using your body to communicate
Speaking Skills: Recalling what you already know -- Thinking critically about the topic -- Considering related information -- Looking beyond the facts -- Sharing your personal and cultural perspective
Vocabulary Skills: Reading and thinking about the topic -- Examining vocabulary in context -- Guessing vocabulary from context
Note Taking Skills: Restating what you have heard -- Mapping

Chapter 6 TOUCH, SPACE, AND CULTURE
Content: Interview 1 - Marcos: Touch and Space -- Interview 2 - SunRan: Touch and Space -- Interview 3 - Airi: Touch -- Lecture: Nonverbal Communication: The Hidden Dimension of Communication
Listening Skills: Summarizing what you have heard -- Decoding the meaning of word stress -- Listening for stress and intonation
Speaking Skills: Recalling what you already know -- Personalizing the topic -- Sharing your cultural perspective -- Considering related information -- Using comparison/contrast -- Analyzing cultural content -- Sharing your personal and cultural perspective
Vocabulary Skills: Reading and thinking about the topic -- Examining vocabulary in context -- Guessing vocabulary from context -- Comparing information from different sources
Note Taking Skills: Recording information -- Reading nonverbal cues -- Recalling what you already know -- Summarizing what you have heard

UNIT 4: INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
Learning Outcomes: Prepare and deliver an oral presentation on a famous friendship or love relationship.

Chapter 7: FRIENDSHIP
Content: Interview - Friendships -- Lecture: Looking at Friendship
Listening Skills: Listening for specific information -- Retelling -- Listening for verb tense and aspect
Speaking Skills: Personalizing the topic -- Drawing inferences -- Sharing your personal and cultural perspective -- Forming generalizations -- Sharing your personal perspective -- Considering related information
Vocabulary Skills: Reading and thinking about the topic -- Examining vocabulary in context -- Describing a typical scene and activities -- Reminiscing about a typical scene and activities -- Building background knowledge on the topic: Culture notes -- Building background knowledge on the topic: Statistics on friendship -- Guessing vocabulary from context
Note Taking Skills: Recalling what you already know -- Summarizing what you have heard -- Using morphology, context, and nonverbal cues to guess meaning

Chapter 8: LOVE
Content: Interview - Courtship and Making Marriage Work -- Lecture - Love: What's It All About?
Listening Skills: Listening for details -- Listening for specific information -- Listening for digressions -- Showing interest
Speaking Skills: Personalizing the topic - Sharing your cultural perspective -- Sharing your personal and cultural perspective -- Considering related information -- Conducting an interview -- Applying general concepts to specific data
Vocabulary Skills: Reading and thinking about the topic -- Examining vocabulary in context -- Building background knowledge on the topic -- Guessing vocabulary from context
Note Taking Skills: Conducting a survey using the Likert scale -- Taking advantage of rhetorical questions -- Outlining Practice

"Academic Encounters is a sustained content-based series for English language learners preparing to study college-level subject matter in English. The goal of the series is to expose students to the types of texts and tasks that they will encounter in their academic course work and provide them with the skills to be successful when that encounter occurs. At each level in the series, there are two thematically paired books. One is an academic reading and writing skills book, in which students encounter readings that are based on authentic academic texts. In this book, students are given the skills to understand texts and respond to them in writing. The reading and writing book is paired with an academic listening and speaking skills book, in which students encounter discussion and lecture material specially prepared by experts in their field. In this book, students learn how to take notes from a lecture, participate in discussions, and prepare short presentations. The books at each level may be used as stand-alone reading and writing books or listening and speaking books. Or they may be used together to create a complete four-skills course. This is made possible because the content of each book at each level is very closely related. Each unit and chapter, for example, has the same title and deals with similar content, so that teachers can easily focus on different skills, but the same content, as they toggle from one book to the other. Additionally, if the books are taught together, when students are presented with the culminating unit writing or speaking assignment, they will have a rich and varied supply of reading and lecture material to draw on.

The Academic Encounters series adopts a sustained content-based approach, which means that at each level in the series students study subject matter from one or two related academic content areas. There are two major advantages gained by students who study with materials that adopt this approach. Because all the subject matter in each book is related to a particular academic discipline, concepts and language tend to recur. This has a major facilitating effect. As students progress through the course, what at first seemed challenging feels more and more accessible. Students thus gain confidence and begin to feel that academic study in English is not as overwhelming a task as they might at first have thought. The second major advantage in studying in a sustained content-based approach is that students actually gain some in-depth knowledge of a particular subject area. In other content-based series, in which units go from one academic discipline to another, students’ knowledge of any one subject area is inevitably superficial. However, after studying a level of Academic Encounters students may feel that they have sufficiently good grounding in the subject area that they may decide to move on to study the academic subject area in a mainstream class, perhaps fulfilling one of their general education requirements." (Introduction, p. 8)

Level 4 in the series focuses on psychology and human communication. The books are designed for students at the low-advanced to advanced level.