About the Series
Contemporary Topics Intro	Contemporary Topics 1
Contents	Contents

Contemporary Topics 2	Contemporary Topics 3
Contents	Contents

Contemporary Topics, Third Edition

This cutting-edge multimedia series — now in its third edition and expanded to four levels — prepares students for the challenge of college lectures with a wide range of listening, speaking and note-taking strategies and skills. Targeting corpus-based vocabulary drawn from the Academic Word List, this content-based series ensures that students learn the vocabulary they are most likely to encounter in an academic setting.

For each level, twelve college lectures (on DVD) are drawn from a range of academic disciplines and reflect authentic lecture settings, featuring engaging instructors and live student audiences.

New! DVD Features

• Realistic classroom lectures from a range of academic disciplines (also on audio CDs).
• Small-group discussions with video-based tasks develop conversation management and participation strategies.
• The instructors' PowerPoint presentations make the experience even more realistic.
• Pop-up Coaching Tips guide students in their note taking during the lecture.
• Optional subtitles for lectures and student discussions.

• Lecture (on Frank Gehry)
• The Gehry lecture with PowerPoint presentation
• Student discussion of the Gehry lecture

• Lectures cross all college disciplines.
• Focus Your Attention teaches students practical listening and note-taking strategies before they listen to the lecture.
• Listening strategies include predicting, inferring, listening for the main idea, and listening for details.
• Review Your Notes helps students consolidate their understanding of lecture content, review note-taking skills, and develop critical thinking.
• Projects include in-class discussions, presentations, contact assignments, research projects, and role plays.
• Teacher's Packs contain photocopiable quizzes and tests, additional vocabulary practice, teaching notes, answer keys, audioscripts, and simulated TOEFL® test Listening tests for each unit.