The CDs contain the listening material for Academic Listening Encounters. This material includes warm-up listening exercises, informal interviews, and authentic classroom lectures. Using a content-based approach, Academic Listening Encounters helps prepare high intermediate ESL/EFL students for listening to lectures and taking notes in an English-speaking college environment. The content focus of the course, human behavior, is explored through a series of tasks, based on the listening tape, that give students the opportunity to practice crucial listening, discussion, and note-taking skills.