LEAP 2, new edition Listening & Speaking | Coursebook with My eLab and eText
$57.93
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Description
• Authentic listening texts and video clips feature a broad range of academic disciplines and genres
to help students improve their listening skills.
• Focus on listening, speaking, grammar, and academic survival skills allows students to develop the
competencies required to communicate effectively in an academic context.
• Final assignments at the end of each chapter offer in-depth speaking tasks that synthesize the
chapter contents and help develop advanced critical thinking skills.
My eLab gives students extra practice opportunities with self-graded activities and tests that teachers
can customize. A gradebook shows students’ progress.
• Vocabulary review exercises.
• Additional comprehension exercises based on listening texts from the Student Book.
• New content related to themes in the Student Book.
My eLab Documents include:
• Vocabulary lists by chapter and master Academic Word List, audio and video files for textbook
listenings, and a referencing guide.
• Teacher’s Guide with answer keys and notes, audio and video scripts, alternative final assignments,
and tests.
• Stronger focus on STEM and business topics exposes students to the types of academic topics and
contexts they will be immersed in in their degree programs.
• Stronger focus on critical thinking: Each chapter now contains a Critical Thinking rubric, and
each chapter ends with a Critical Connections task allowing students to build on what they have
learned and applying it to new ideas.
• Learning outcomes are based on the Global Scale of English (GSE), ensuring learning paths are
logical and progressive
• Listening comprehension activities (pre, during, and post) have been reworked to provide more
structure and guidance.
• Improved My eLab: Now My eLab matches the book content chapter to chapter for ease of use.
Succeed in the academic world
LEAP 2: Listening and Speaking, New Edition is the second level of the four-level task-based coursebook series. Along with extensive online resources, LEAP 2 develops the skills students need to excel in an academic world.
Blended learning with My eLab
FOR STUDENTS:
- Extensive practice, anytime, anywhere
- Instant feedback
- Gradebook to help focus on areas for improvement
FOR TEACHERS
- Automatic correction saves time
- Online and paper testing materials
- eText of the print book for classroom presentations
- CHAPTER 1 • THINKING BUSINESS
- LISTENING 1 Ben Silbermann at Start-Up School
- LISTENING 2 Fifty-Four Hours: Start-Up Weekend
- WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Work in a Group to Create an Idea for an Application
- LISTENING 3 Start-Up and Slay
- FINAL ASSIGNMENT Give a Presentation and Take Notes
- CHAPTER 2 • A NEW WORLD OF WORK
- LISTENING 1 Don’t Follow Your Passion
- LISTENING 2 Students Create Their Own Dream Jobs
- WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Describe Your Perfect Job
- LISTENING 3 Crowdworkers
- FINAL ASSIGNMENT Give a Compare and Contrast Presentation with a Partner
- CHAPTER 3 • PEOPLE IN MOTION
- LISTENING 1 Autonomous Cars and the Future of Cities
- LISTENING 2 Plugging In: The Future of Electric Cars
- WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Conduct an Oral Survey
- LISTENING 3 Future Electric
- FINAL ASSIGNMENT Prepare and Present an Oral Survey
- CHAPTER 4 • THE BUSINESS OF SPACE
- LISTENING 1 Science and Science Fiction with Andy Weir
- LISTENING 2 A Brief History of Space Exploration
- WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Introduce an Example of Cause and Effect
- LISTENING 3 The First Moon Tourist (video)
- FINAL ASSIGNMENT Give an Academic Presentation
- CHAPTER 5 • INVENTING THE FUTURE
- LISTENING 1 3D Printing (video)
- LISTENING 2 3D Printing: Making the Future
- WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Develop Product Proposals
- LISTENING 3 Printing the Edible
- CHAPTER 6 • ENGINEERING THE FUTURE
- LISTENING 1 Activity Trackers and Apps
- LISTENING 2 Our Better Selves
- WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Summarize an Interview
- LISTENING 3 The Future of Human Enhancements
- FINAL ASSIGNMENT Summarize a Lecture and Participate in a Group Discussion
- CHAPTER 7 • NEW WAYS TO LEARN
- LISTENING 1 Gamification
- LISTENING 2 New Models for Education
- WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Give a Process Presentation
- LISTENING 3 Three Approaches to Education
- FINAL ASSIGNMENT Explain a Process in a Seminar
- CHAPTER 8 • FINDING JUSTICE
- LISTENING 1 Technocreep
- LISTENING 2 Debate: Parallel Cases from under the Pear-Tree
- WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Construct an Argument for a Debate
- LISTENING 3 Human Rights
- FINAL ASSIGNMENT Participate in a Debate
This product includes the LEAP 2 – Listening and Speaking book and a 12 months access to its My eLab.
LEAP 2 – Listening and Speaking (CEFR Level B1) is a task-based textbook for students preparing for college or university studies in English. Students apply critical-thinking skills as they engage in academic listening and speaking tasks across a range of disciplines. Contemporary listening texts, including audio and video clips, prepare students for the college classroom, with activities that develop vocabulary and listening comprehension. With focuses on listening, speaking, grammar and academic survival skills, LEAP 2 – Listening and Speaking empowers students to thrive in their academic studies.
Features and benefits:
- Interesting and academic listening texts
- Three authentic listening texts per chapter (two audio excerpts and one video excerpt) from a variety of genres including debates, interviews, lectures, podcasts and speeches, mostly Canadian sources, prepare students for the lectures and presentations they will encounter in academic courses.
- Varied and challenging activities
- Focus on Listening sections provide opportunities to learn listening skills and strategies, accompanied by well-structured and challenging activities to help students improve their ability to deal with university-level lectures and presentations.
- Linear and guided speaking tasks
- Warm-Up and Final Assignments integrate a process approach, as well as a genre approach, to guide students in preparing for and participating in various types of presentations. Focus on Speaking activities develop more specific speaking skills, which students reinvest in the assignments.
- Academic vocabulary development
- Key words and vocabulary from the Academic Word List are highlighted in three Vocabulary Build sections in every chapter, giving students ample opportunity to expand their vocabulary.
My eLab includes:
- Vocabulary review exercises
- Additional focuses: skills practice based on material from the book
- Vocabulary lists by chapter and AWL master list
- Helpful documents, including Giving Presentations, Parts of Speech, Irregular Verbs List
- Audio and video clips for textbook listenings
LEAP: Reading and Writing aims to improve reading and writing skills with Academic Word List (AWL), vocabulary, grammar, academic survival skills, and final assignments that let learners apply what they learned in individual and personalized ways. Focus on critical thinking helps learners reflect on what they read to develop strategies that can be applied to writing. The Global Scale of English (GSE) structures LEAP‘s learning goals to give learners a clear idea of the language objectives they should aim to meet.
Each chapter in the book focuses on engaging themes drawn from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), as well as education and business fields. Each chapter includes three readings related to the chapter theme, often with divergent perspectives. Most of these readings are authentic and give learners a chance to apply their critical thinking skills.
The writing component involves different types of paragraphs and other forms, including essays.
Beyond the book, My eLab exercises and documents give learners the opportunity to reinforce and build on what they learn.
Additional information
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| Subjects | World languages, ESL / EAL, English Language Teaching |
