Nobel Prize Winners with Audio-CD
Building listening and reading skills
● by: Lisa F. Dewitt
● Levels: Intermediate. Secondary, University, and Adult

It's back! This collection of 20 brief biographies of Alfred Nobel and
a representative selection of past and present Nobel Prize winners
is back by popular demand!

● All six prize categories are represented :  Peace, Literature,
  Economics, Physiology or Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry.

● The winners' countries include : South  Africa , India , Tibet ,
  the United States, Poland, the Soviet Union, Germany, Egypt,
  England, China, Columbia, and Sweden.

Who are these materials for? Anyone building listening and reading
skills. The readings are arranged from easy to difficult.

There are three tapes. Each reading has been recorded twice by one
of seven native speakers, male and female, from different parts of the
United States. On the first two tapes, the readings are slow and deliberate.
On the third, the same readings are read faster, at the speed of natural
conversation.

Vocabulary building. At the back of the student workbook, the readings are
reprinted with key words left out.  Much of this key vocabulary is repeated
in the selections for reinforcement.The number of blanks in the exercises
increases as the selections become more difficult.This is an excellent way
to get students to focus on word spelling and meaning.

The format of the materials allows maximum flexibility.. The book can be
used as a reader or for listening exercises alone. Students can read and
then listen or vice versa. And, of course, they  can  use  the  slow or the
fast tape, or both. Teaching suggestions are included in the book.

Photos from Nobel Foundation archives: Peace Prize winners: Mother
Teresa 1979, Desmond Tutu 1984; Literature medal.

● ConTents and Introduction








● Click ☞ Sample : The Dalai Lama


● Teacher's Comments
 " The combination of reading and listening material works, and  works well.
On the tapes there are different voices with different accents, and they read
each biography once slowly and then fast. This material is uniquely flexible.

After listening and reading and vocabulary development, there's lots to talk
and then write about.These truly significant people and the issues they were
involved with sre still vitally important. I always recommend this text."

Monica Weiss
Booklink, teacher trainer