Active Listening: Building Skills for Understanding Student's book

by Marc Helgesen , Steven Brown

• ISBN13: 9780521398824
• ISBN10: 0521398827
• Edition: Student
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-10-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Active Listening series is a three-level listening course in North American English. It draws on recent research in comprehension, and offers students 20 engaging, task-based units, each built around a topic, function, or grammatical theme. In the first two levels (Introducing and Building), students learn to listen through a careful balance of activities, including listening for gist, listening for specific information, and making inferences. In the third level (Expanding), listening activities are content-based, drawing on real information from a variety of sources.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction

Before you begin how do you learn English?

Unit 1 Getting to know you

Unit 2 What's your number

Unit 3 I'm hungry

Unit 4 Gestures

Unit 5 Didn't you see that sign?

Unit 6 How do you feel?

Unit 7 Where is it?

Unit 8 The world market

Unit 9 What do they look like?

Unit 10 What do you do?

Unit 11 what are they talking about?

Unit 12 How was you vacation?

Unit 13 Around the house Unit 14 Shopping

Unit 15 Going places

Unit 16 Making plans

Unit 17 Youth Culture

Unit 18 Making a difference

Unit 19 It's in the news

Unit 20 Dreams and screams Each unit includes: Warming up, Listening task, Culture corner, Listening task and Your turn to talk