Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind in Japanese Vol 2

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Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind in Japanese Vol 2
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Product ID: 505302

Categories: History, Non Fiction
Supporting language: Japanese
Platforms/media types: Printed Matter
Specifications: es	Sentence-making exercises reinforce key grammar and vocabulary. Click and drag words to construct sentences from the lesson.
	Matrix Vocabulary: Vocabulary Practice	The focus is on useful vocabulary and constructions in five subject areas: things to eat, things to drink, things to read, things to listen to, and colors.
	Matrix Vocabulary: Matrix Game	An interactive game in which students answer comprehension questions and try to improve their score. Questions are randomly arranged so that each game is different.
	Biography - Einstein: The Early Years The Later Years	Major changes, dates and events in the life of Albert Einstein. This important and informative lesson extends and consolidates material from previous lessons. Prepares students to talk about their own life history.
	Biography - Einstein: Focus Exercises	Sentence-making exercises reinforce key grammar and vocabulary from the presentation. Click and drag words to complete the sentence so that it fits the context.
	Review Exercises: Dictations	Listening-based review of important vocabulary, grammar, and word recognition in context. An oral cloze type format.
	Review Exercises: Fill-Ins	Students use speech recognition to complete gap-filling exercises. Focuses on detailed comprehension and inferring from context. Reviews grammar and meaning distinctions from previous lessons.
	Review Exercises: Speech Practice	Sentence Reading, Answering Questions, and Speech Quiz sections offer speaking practice using speech recognition. Reviews previous lessons.
	Video Interactions	Natural conversations with native English speakers reinforce key language, including useful telephone expressions. Select "Interactive" to participate in the conversation, using Speech Recognition. This section includes: Business Telephone, Friendly Advice, At a Restaurant, and At an Interview.

New Dynamic English, Level 3
Disc 1	Lesson	Description
	On a Trip: A Paris Vacation Today's Activities Florence and Beyond	Extends the language necessary to talk about one's life, expectations and intentions. Relates singular events to durative events and experience. Contrasts past tense with the present perfect. Vocabulary of travel is reviewed and extended.
	On a Trip: Question Practice	Intensive question practice focusing on singular and durative events (e.g., when, how long ago, how long did, etc.) and state (e.g. has she, how long since, still, yet, etc.). This lesson reinforces the vocabulary and structures from the previous lesson.
	On a Trip: Focus Exercises	Sentence-making exercises reinforce key grammar and vocabulary. Click and drag words to construct sentences from the lesson.
	Energy Sources: Our Energy Needs What About the Future?	Extends the ability to talk about the world around us, including simple environmental issues. Cause and effect, simple processes, and important passives (e.g. are produced, is reduced...)
	Energy Sources: Focus Exercises	Sentence-making exercises reinforce key grammar and vocabulary. Click and drag words to construct sentences from the lesson.
	Directions: City Directions City Quiz Spatial Relations	The focus is on giving directions, relative locations, and spatial relations. Students practicing following directions by navigating through the streets of a city. This lesson extends the Location lesson from New Dynamic English Level 2 Disc 1.
	Review Exercises: Dictations	Listening-based review of important vocabulary, grammar, and word recognition in context. An oral cloze type format.
	Review Exercises: Fill-Ins	Students use speech recognition to complete gap-filling exercises. Focuses on detailed comprehension and inferring from context. Reviews grammar and meaning distinctions from previous lessons.
	Review Exercises: Speech Practice	Sentence Reading, Answering Questions, and Speech Quiz sections offer speaking practice using speech recognition. Reviews previous lessons.
	Video Interactions	Natural conversations with native English speakers reinforce key language, including useful telephone expressions. Select "Interactive" to participate in the conversation, using Speech Recognition. Includes: How Much are the Tickets?, Business Telephone: May I Help You?, At a Restaurant, and Hot Seats.
Disc 2	Lesson	Description
	Life Experience: Making a New Life A Path to Success A Troubled Past	Extends the ability to talk about one's life in more detail: past experiences, current situations, plans and hopes for the future. This lesson completes and reinforces the presentation of pre-intermediate verb structures.
	Life Experience: Focus Exercises	Sentence-making exercises reinforce key grammar and vocabulary. Click and drag words to construct sentences from the lesson.
	Matrix Vocabulary: Vocabulary Practice	The focus is on useful vocabulary and constructions in five subject areas: jobs, transportation, places to go, basic feelings, and things to wear.
	Matrix Vocabulary: Matrix Game	An interactive game in which students answer comprehension questions and try to improve their score. Questions are randomly arranged so that each game is different.
	Comparisons: Price and Quality Three Sisters Country Data Four Cities	This lesson reviews and extends the language of comparison and reference: quality, price, age, size, physical description, distance, area, population, and temperature.
	Comparisons: Focus Exercises	Sentence-making exercises reinforce key grammar and vocabulary from the presentation. Click and drag words to complete the sentence so that it fits the context.
	Review Exercises: Dictations	Listening-based review of important vocabulary, grammar, and word recognition in context. An oral cloze type format.
	Review Exercises: Fill-Ins	Students use speech recognition to complete gap-filling exercises. Focuses on detailed comprehension and inferring from context. Reviews grammar and meaning distinctions from previous lessons.
	Review Exercises: Speech Practice	Sentence Reading, Answering Questions, and Speech Quiz sections offer speaking practice using speech recognition. Reviews previous lessons.
	Video Interactions	Natural conversations with native English speakers reinforce key language, including useful telephone expressions. Select "Interactive" to participate in the conversation, using Speech Recognition. Includes: Telephone Conversation, Business Telephone: Flight Information, At a Restaurant, and Interview: Job Experience.

New Dynamic English, Level 4
Disc 1	Lesson	Description
	Life Choices: Harry's Accident Joan's Challenge Joe's Cafe Sandra's Dilemma	Introduces conditional constructions to talk about past and future events and their consequences. Presents different types of cause-and-effect relationships using connecting phrases such as "as a result," "even though," "because of," and "unless."
	Life Choices: Question Practice	Intensive question practice focuses on the language of choice, causal relations, and inferences. Reinforces the vocabulary and structures from the previous lesson.
	Life Choices: Focus on Conditionals	Click and drag words to construct the appropriate conditional which follows from a given fact.
	Epidemic: Our Changing Lives Fighting Infections The Adaptability of Life Preparing for our Future	In this lesson students learn to focus their listening on either the main idea or the supporting facts and examples in a presentation. Develops vocabulary related to health and other global issues.
	Epidemic: Sentence Reordering	Focuses on connecting phrases and other discourse markers that link sentences together and create coherent paragraphs.
	Space & Time Sequences: Space Game Time Game	This innovative lesson focuses on the language of spatial relationships, explanation, specification, exception, conditional action, and time sequencing. Features two games which use click and drag activities to test comprehension.
	Review Exercises: Dictations	Listening-based review of important vocabulary, grammar, and word recognition in context. An oral cloze type format.
	Review Exercises: Fill-Ins	Students use speech recognition to complete gap-filling exercises. Focuses on detailed comprehension and inferring from context. Reviews grammar and meaning distinctions from previous lessons.
	Review Exercises: Speech Practice	Sentence Reading, Answering Questions, and Speech Quiz sections offer speaking practice using speech recognition. Reviews previous lessons.
	Video Interactions	Natural conversations with native English speakers reinforce key language, including useful telephone expressions. Select "Interactive" to participate in the conversation, using Speech Recognition. Includes: Telephone for Business, Telephone Invitation, Interview with an Actor, Dinner Conversation, and Hot Seats.
Disc 2	Lesson	Description
	The Secret Code: Setting a Trap The Suspect The Investigation Guilty or Not Guilty	Students examine evidence in a mystery and draw conclusions from the evidence as they try to solve it. The focus is on degrees of certainty, making inferences, conditionals and suppositions. This lesson follows up Level 4, Disc 1, which also focuses on conditionals.
	The Secret Code: Focus Exercises	Sentence-making exercises reinforce key grammar and vocabulary. Click and drag words to construct sentences from the lesson.
	Matrix Vocabulary: Vocabulary Practice	Prepares students to discuss global issues, trends and news events. Presents vocabulary in five categories: famous people, regions of the world, disasters, a history of the world, and human accomplishments.
	Matrix Vocabulary: Matrix Game	An interactive game in which students answer comprehension questions and try to improve their score. Questions are randomly arranged so that each game is different.
	UFOs: For & Against: Arguments:-For & Against For or Against? Drakes Equation: -Intelligent Life Relativity:-Rulers & Clocks	This lesson presents arguments for and against the existence of UFOs. The focus is on the structure of simple arguments and counter arguments, note-taking, and important vocabulary. Prepares students to follow and engage in critical thinking and debates.
	UFOs: For & Against Sentence Reordering	Focuses on connecting phrases and other discourse markers that link sentences together and create coherent arguments.
	Review Exercises: Dictations	Listening-based review of important vocabulary, grammar, and word recognition in context. An oral cloze type format.
	Review Exercises: Fill-Ins	Students use speech recognition to complete gap-filling exercises. Focuses on detailed comprehension and inferring from context. Reviews grammar and meaning distinctions from previous lessons.
	Review Exercises: Speech Practice	Sentence Reading, Answering Questions, and Speech Quiz sections offer speaking practice using speech recognition. Reviews previous lessons.
	Video Interactions	Natural conversations with native English speakers reinforce key language, including useful telephone expressions. Select "Interactive" to participate in the conversation, using Speech Recognition. Includes: Telephone for Business, Friends on the Telephone, UFO Interview, and Press Conference.