Contemporary Topics, Third Edition

Move your students from taking notes to taking part.

 

  

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. 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.

Watch samples of the DVD videos (from Contemporary Topics 2, Unit 8):

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