LISTENING

TIME Magazine October 6, 2008 Vol. 172 No. 14

DOC (MS Word) + PDF + MP3 | English | 5.3 + 1.3 + 12.6 MB

• COVER: The Financial Crisis: Who Can Lead Us Out Of This Mess? – How to pick a President amid financial chaos

• SCIENCE: Unfrozen Tundra – A melting Greenland is the front line in the fight to save the earth, but it’s just one of the places green heroes are doing amazing things

• SOCIETY: A Spa That Slithers – Forget mud from the Dead Sea. Israel’s latest tranquillity treatment has snakes on the brain

• TECHNOLOGY: MySpace Launches a Free-Music Revolution – MySpace has a cool new way to expand your song library. But downloads will still cost you

• Maligned Online? How to Retaliate Against Web Attacks – How to win the online reputation game (more…)

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

When Abraham Lincoln met the writer Harriet Beecher Stowe after the start of the American Civil War, he reportedly said to her: ‘So you’re the little lady whose book started this big war’. Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, published in 1852, is credited as fuelling the cause to abolish slavery in the northern half of the United States in direct response to its continuation in the South. (more…)

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Mathematics and Music

The seventeenth century philosopher Gottfried Leibniz wrote: ‘Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting’. Mathematical structures have always provided the bare bones around which musicians compose music and have been vital to the very practical considerations of performance such as fingering and tempo. (more…)

Essential Telephoning in English

Garside/Garside – Pre-intermediate, Intermediate

Essential Telephoning in English is a short skills course for adult learners of Business and general English. Its 11 core units cover a wide range of communication skills such as beginning and ending a call, taking messages, dealing with problems, making appointments and communicating information.

The course enables learners to check their progress with three consolidation units as well as an end-of-course review unit. It has been designed primarily for use in class but is also suitable for self-study.

Product Description
This book provides original and stimulating listening practice across a range of levels and topics. Activities are designed around authentic scenarios and help develop specific listening skills, such as listening for details, identifying emotions or listening for opinions. The recordings expose students to a variety of native and non-native accents and cover a range of genres from radio and television to academic lectures, presentations and conversational dialogues. (more…)

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Author: Gary James, Charles G. Whitley, Sharon Bode
Publisher: Longman (1981)
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