LEAP (Learning English for Academic Purposes) Advanced, Listening and Speaking w/ My eLab

Description

LEAP Advanced is a task-based international textbook for students preparing for college or university studies in English. It encourages students to apply critical-thinking skills as they engage in academic listening and speaking, or reading and writing, tasks across a range of disciplines.

• All authentic audios featuring a variety of accents
  Three authentic texts in every chapter provide students with real-life contexts to practise listening to lectures, interviews and other academic texts. Certain chapters include video lectures.
• High-level critical thinking
  A variety of tasks throughout the chapters require students to have more in-depth interaction with texts to develop stronger critical-thinking skills. Critical Connections sections give students the opportunity to synthesize and evaluate content from the preceding chapter pair.
• Wide variety of academic speaking assignments
  Speaking tasks focus on teaching students to cope in various academic contexts, such as participating in seminars and delivering presentations and proposals.

Learning English for Academic Purposes (LEAP) uses high-interest international content to prepare students for the English academic world.

The texts encourage students to apply critical thinking skills as they engage in academic reading and writing and listening and speaking tasks across a range of disciplines. Each strand (Reading and Writing, Listening and Speaking) follows a parallel chapter structure that builds from a warm-up activity to increasingly challenging skill-building assignments and a final speaking or written presentation that synthesizes all the skills learned.

Features:

¿ Academic vocabulary development, including two Vocabulary Build activities in every chapter, gives students ample opportunity to expand their vocabulary.

¿ Three authentic readings per chapter prepare students for the text length and genres they will encounter in academic courses.

¿ Wide range of audio presents different viewpoints to encourage students to think critically while developing comprehension of academic content.

¿ Linear and guided writing tasks take a process approach to guide students in writing various types of essays and assignments in each chapter.

¿ The LEAP Companion Website Plus provides self-graded exercises for reading, listening, vocabulary, and grammar. Also includes teacher access to answer keys, teaching notes, tests, and a gradebook to track student progress.

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