Full Description
LEAP 4 - Listening and Speaking (CEFR Level C1) is a task-based 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 tasks across a range of disciplines. Entirely authentic listening and speaking texts, including video lectures, prepare students for the college classroom, while thought-provoking content challenges them to reflect on contemporary global issues. Featuring text-based vocabulary and skills practice and a variety of structured speaking assignments, LEAP 4 - Listening and Speaking offers students the skills they need to thrive in the English academic world.
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 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 two 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
New content in four sections related in theme to the four chapter pairs in the book
a new listening text comprehension questions vocabulary questions Vocabulary lists by chapter and AWL master list Audio and video clips for textbook listenings
Contents
CHAPTER 1 • embracing innovation
LISTENING 1 The State of Innovation
LISTENING 2 Manipulation Has Been Driving Innovation for Ages
WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Innovate a Product or Service
LISTENING 3 Design Thinking
FINAL ASSIGNMENT Participate in a Seminar
CHAPTER 2 • the business of helping others
LISTENING 1 Reimagining Business in Latin America
LISTENING 2 Capitalism on Steroids
WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Prepare an Elevator Pitch to Explain a Good Cause
LISTENING 3 Poverty Is a Threat to Peace (video)
FINAL ASSIGNMENT Deliver an Appeal for Support
CHAPTER 3 • private eyes
LISTENING 1 Is Your Genetic Privacy Safe?
LISTENING 2 Privacy, Consent, and Investigative Journalism
WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Explore a Topic Related to Privacy
LISTENING 3 Protecting Our Neuroprivacy
FINAL ASSIGNMENT Discuss Privacy in a Group
CHAPTER 4 • cities for living
LISTENING 1 Are Connected Bikes Key to Improving Urban Planning?
LISTENING 2 Sustainability: The Next Management Frontier (Part 1)
WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Identify Two Points of View
LISTENING 3 Sustainability: The Next Management Frontier (Part 2)
FINAL ASSIGNMENT Participate in a Panel Discussion
CHAPTER 5 • the creative solution
LISTENING 1 Your Phone Is an Extension of Your Mind
LISTENING 2 Aphantasia: When the Mental Image Is Missing
WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Describe a Problem to Find a Creative Solution
LISTENING 3 Can a Computer Be Creative?
FINAL ASSIGNMENT Take Part in a Creative Consultation
CHAPTER 6 • rise of the citizen journalist
LISTENING 1 The Future of Journalism: Old Media Is Dying
LISTENING 2 How to Be a Citizen Journalist
WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Identify a Scientific Report to Adapt as a Podcast
LISTENING 3 The Evolution of Journalism and Tapping into Tech for Storytelling
FINAL ASSIGNMENT Create a Podcast Based on a Scientific Report
CHAPTER 7 • digital brains
LISTENING 1 Artificial Intelligence Insight from Deep Learning Godfather
LISTENING 2 Toward an Artificial Brain
WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Prepare for a Seminar
LISTENING 3 Merging Human Brains with Al
FINAL ASSIGNMENT Take Part in a Seminar
CHAPTER 8 • saving planet earth
LISTENING 1 Jane Goodall on Environmental Ethics
LISTENING 2 The Legacy: An Elder's Vision for Our Sustainable Future
WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Analyze a Speech
LISTENING 3 Fifty Years of Watching Climate Change
FINAL ASSIGNMENT Challenge Ideas in a Seminar
