Key Concepts 1 : Listening, Note Taking, and Speaking Across the Disciplines /
Elena Vestri Solomon and John L. Shelley.
- 1st ed.
- Boston : Cengage Learning, 2006.
- 143 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. + Audio CD
- Key Concepts .
CHAPTER 1 THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE: SUCCESS IN COLLEGE LISTENING 1 Short Conversations -- Get Ready to Listen -- Activity 1 Brainstorming and Discussion -- Responding to Questions and Giving Advice -- Listen and Respond -- Activity 2 Listen to Conversations -- Activity 3 Give Advice LISTENING 2 Min-Lecture: Community Colleges vs. Universities -- Vocabulary: Academic Word List -- Activity 4 Vocabulary Practice -- Taking Notes -- Discourse Markers -- What is a Discourse Marker? -- Determine What’s Important -- Listen and Respond -- Activity 5 Listen and Use Strategies You Learned -- First Listening: Listen for Discourse Markers -- Second Listening: Listen and Take Notes -- Activity 6 Answer Questions about the Mini-Lecture LISTENING 3 Listening Strategy: Listen for Context -- Activity 7 Guess Meaning from Context LISTENING 4 Extended Lecture: About Note Taking -- Activity 8 Check the Definitions -- Vocabulary: Academic Word List -- Activity 9 Vocabulary Practice -- Listen and Respond -- Activity 10 Listen and Use Strategies You Learned -- First Listening: Listen for Discourse Markers -- Second Listening: Listen and Take Notes -- Activity 11 Compare Notes -- Activity 12 Think Critically: About You SPEAKING Interviewing -- Activity 13 Conduct Interviews: Analyze Study Skills and Academic Goals -- Activity 14 Expand Your Interview Questions CHAPTER 2 FROM THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: PSYCHOLOGY LISTENING 1 Short Conversations -- Get Ready to Listen -- Activity 1 Brainstorming and Discussion -- Activity 2 Read for Inference -- Listen and Respond -- Activity 3 Listen to Conversation LISTENING 2 Mini-Lecture: Kinds of Psychologists -- Vocabulary: Academic Word List -- Activity 4 Vocabulary Practice -- Taking Notes: Outlines -- Using Outlines -- Listen and Respond -- Activity 5 Listen and Use Strategies You Learned -- First Listening: Listen for Vocabulary -- Second Listening: Listen and Outline -- Activity 6 Answer Questions about the Mini-Lecture LISTENING 3 Listening Strategy: Identify Differences -- Activity 7 Listen for Pronunciation Differences LISTENING 4 Extended Lecture: Research Methods in Psychology -- Discourse Markers: Various Functions -- Vocabulary: Academic Word List -- Activity 8 Vocabulary Practice -- Listen and Respond -- Activity 9 Listen and Use Strategies You Learned -- Fist Listening: Listen for Discourse Markers -- Second Listening: Listen and Take Notes -- Activity 10 Answer Questions about the Extended Lecture -- Activity 11 Think Critically: Evaluate and Compare Information from the Lecture SPEAKING Surveying -- Survey: Strategies for Working in Groups -- Activity 12 Survey: Come Up with a Technique to Study Twins -- Activity 13 Compare Psychology Syllabi Online CHAPTER 3 FROM BUSINESS: INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND MARKETING LISTENING 1 Short Conversations -- Get Ready to Listen -- Activity 1 Brainstorming and Discussion -- Understand Time Relationships -- Activity 2 Explain Events in Relation to Time -- Listen and Respond -- Activity 3 Listen to Conversations LISTENING 2 Mini-Lecture: International Trade -- Taking Notes: Word Maps -- Using Word Maps -- Activity 4 Take Notes in a Word Map -- Vocabulary: Academic Word List -- Activity 5 Vocabulary Practice -- Listen and Respond -- Activity 6 Listen and Use Strategies You Learned -- First Listening: Listen and Connect Words -- Second Listening: Listen and Take Notes -- Activity 7 Answer Questions about the Mini-Lecture -- Activity 8 Think Critically -- Activity 9 Academic Word List Review: Word Forms -- Discourse Markers: Sequencing -- Activity 10 Sequencing with Discourse Markers LISTENING 3 Listening Strategy: Past Tense and Participles Activity 11 Listen for Past Forms LISTENING 4 Extended Lecture: The Global Marketplace -- Vocabulary: Academic Word List -- Activity 12 Vocabulary Practice -- Listen and Respond -- Activity 13 Listen and Use Strategies You Learned -- First Listening: Listen for Vocabulary -- Second Listening: Listen and Take Notes -- Activity 14 Answer Questions about the Extended Lecture SPEAKING Extemporaneous Speaking -- Activity 15 Give an Extemporaneous Speech -- Activity 16 Ask Questions CHAPTER 4 FROM THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: AMERICAN GOVERNMENT LISTENING 1 Short Conversations -- Get Ready to Listen -- Activity 1 Brainstorming and Discussion --Understand Phrasal Verbs Through Content -- Phrasal Verbs with More than One Meaning -- Some Phrasal Verbs Indivisible -- Listen and Respond -- Activity 2 Listen for Phrasal Verbs LISTENING 2 Mini-Lecture: The United States Government -- Vocabulary: Academic Word List -- Activity 3 Vocabulary Practice -- Taking Notes: The Cornell Method -- Activity 4 Practice the Cornell Method -- Listen and Respond -- Activity 5 Listen and Use -- Strategies You Learned -- First Listening: Listen for Vocabulary -- Second Listening: Listen and Take Notes -- Activity 6 Answer Comprehension Questions about the Mini-Lecture LISTENING 3 Listening Strategy: Reduce a Sound -- Activity 7 Listen for Vowel Reductions LISTENING 4 Extended Lecture: The Constitution and the Government -- Activity 8 Vocabulary Practice -- Listen and Respond -- Activity 9 Listen and Use Strategies You Learned -- First Listening: Listen for Vocabulary -- Second Listening: Listen and Take Notes -- Activity 10 Answer Comprehension -- Questions about the Extended Lecture -- Activity 11 Think Critically: What Do You Remember? -- Discourse Markers Transitions -- Activity 12 Define Transition Signals SPEAKING Debating -- Activity 13 Participate in a Debate -- Activity 14 Find Out about More Key Concepts CHAPTER 5 FROM THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES: BIOLOGY LISTENING 1 Short Conversations -- Get Ready to Listen -- Activity 1 Brainstorming and Discussion -- Listen and Respond -- Activity 2 Listen for Phrasal Verbs LISTENING 2 Min-Lecture: The Theory of Natural Selection -- Vocabulary: Academic Word List -- Activity 3 Vocabulary Practice -- Taking Notes: Key Words -- Use Key Words -- Listen and Respond -- Activity 4 Listen and Use Strategies You Learned -- First Listening: Listen for Discourse Markers -- Second Listening: Listen and Take Notes with Key Words -- Activity 5 Check Information about the Mini-Lecture LISTENING 3 Listening Strategy: Sound Groups -- Activity 6 Identify Sound Groups LISTENING 4 Extended Lecture: Natural Selection in Finches -- Vocabulary: Academic Word List -- Activity 7 Vocabulary Practice -- Discourse Markers: More Transition Signals -- Listen and Respond -- Activity 8 Listen and Use Strategies You Learned -- First Listening: Listen for Discourse Markers -- Second Listening: Listen and Take Notes with Key Notes -- Activity 10 Write without Notes -- Activity 11 Think Critically SPEAKING Presentations -- Activity 13 Give a Group Presentation -- Activity 14 Use the Internet CHAPTER 6 FROM THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: PHILOSOPHY LISTENING 1 Short Conversations -- Get Ready to Listen -- Activity 1 Brainstorming and Discussion -- Listen and Respond -- Activity 2 Listen for Phrasal Verbs LISTENING 2 Min-Lecture: Overview of Philosophy -- Vocabulary: Academic Word List -- Activity 3 Vocabulary Practice -- Taking Notes: Paragraph Method -- Using Paragraphs in Note Taking -- Listen and Respond -- Activity 4 Listen and Use Strategies You Learned -- First Listening: Listen and Take Notes -- Second Listening: Listen for Discourse Markers -- Activity 5 Answer Questions about the Mini-Lecture LISTENING 3 Listening Strategy: Understand Reduction Strings -- Activity 6 Listen and Write Sentences LISTENING 4 Extended Lecture: Existentialism -- Activity 7 Vocabulary Practice -- Activity 8 Use Discourse Markers -- Listen and Respond -- Activity 9 Listen and Use Strategies You Learned -- First Listening: Listen for Vocabulary Words -- Second Listening: Listen and Take Notes -- Activity 10 Answer Questions about the Extended Lecture -- Activity 11 Think Critically SPEAKING Summarizing -- Activity 12 Research and Summarize Topics -- Activity 13 Find Out about More Key Concepts APPENDICES APPENDIX 1: Academic Word List Vocabulary -- APPENDIX 2: Speaking in Class: Strategies for Presentations and Interactive Communication -- APPENDIX 3: Sample Evaluation Forms (Gradesheets) for Oral Presentations -- APPENDIX 4: Note-Taking Symbols -- APPENDIX 5: Note-Taking Strategies -- APPENDIX 6: Discourse Markers -- APPENDIX 7: Common Phrasal Verbs
Key Concepts covers academic material – discipline-based lectures, academic vocabulary, and structured speaking – that students are bound to encounter in higher education. In Key Concepts, students gain not only academic knowledge but also valuable note-taking skills necessary for success in college. These combined skill sets raise students’ comfort levels with academic information while giving them ample opportunity to interact with each other and the instructor. Chapters are categorized into the most common disciplines students will encounter in community colleges and universities, such as psychology, American history, philosophy, biological sciences, and business, and vocabulary items come from the Academic Word List, a comprehensive list of the most frequently used vocabulary items in higher education. The lectures presented in Key Concepts are similar to the ones tested on the new TOEFL, integrating the skills of note taking and answering questions from various college disciplines. Key Concepts audio CDs include short dialogues, longer lectures, and discrete pronunciation items.” (Book Cover)