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Consider the Issues: High-Intermediate Listening and Critical Thinking Skills, Fourth Edition, Answer key, audioscripts

This file is the answer key and audioscript for "Consider the Issues: High-Intermediate Listening and Critical Thinking Skills, Fourth Edition" by Carol Numrich, in cooperation with NPR®.

It contains:

• An introduction explaining the purpose of the answer key and audioscript.
• An answer key for exercises in vocabulary, looking at language (usage, pronunciation, discourse analysis), listening (main ideas, details, inferences), and follow-up activities (surveys, debates, interviews, case studies, oral presentations) for 12 units.
• An audioscript of each NPR interview and report featured in the "Consider the Issues" audio program.

The units cover a range of topics, including:

• Identity and social media (Facebook)
• Courtesy and cell phone use
• Smoking in public
• The blurring lines between work and home
• Autism
• Concierge medicine
• Marriage trends
• Philanthropy
• Whaling controversies
• Genetically engineered food
• Climate change as a security threat
• Driver behavior and distractions