Listening Power 3

by Gilbert, Tammy LeRoi; Rogers, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780136114284
• ISBN10: 0136114288
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-05
• Publisher: Pearson Education ESL

Summary

#xA0; #xA0; Listening Poweris a new three-book series with a targeted approach to teaching the listening skills that students need inside and outside the classroom and on standardized tests such as the TOEFL and TOEIC. #xA0; Listening Power 3features four distinct parts designed to be used concurrently. Language Focusteaches essential and sometimes difficult advanced-level skills such as reduced forms, patterns of intonation, and idiomatic expressions. Comprehension Focuspresents skills for understanding main ideas, supporting ideas, and details; making inferences, distinguishing facts and opinions; and recognizing organizational patterns. Activities to help students apply the skills follow the presentation. Note-Taking Skillsteaches students how to identify important words and information. This section also presents helpful techniques such as use of abbreviations, symbols, and formatting. Listening for Pleasureuses interesting audio material from movies, TV, radio, and recorded storytelling to help students understand the more subtle meaning communicated through tone of voice, sentence stress, and reduced forms.

Table of Contents

Part 1    Language Focus

 

Unit 1    Understanding Reduced Forms

Unit 2    Understanding Intonation

Unit 3    Understanding Idioms

 

 

Part 2    Comprehension Focus

 

Building Skills

    Unit 1    Listening for Main Ideas, Supporting Ideas, and Details

    Unit 2    Making Inferences

    Unit 3    Distinguishing Facts and Opinions

    Unit 4    Understanding Patterns of Organization

 

Applying Skills

    Unit 5    What's Up? McArthur's Universal Corrective Map

    Unit 6    Aha! Moments

    Unit 7    To the Bottom of the World ... by Tractor

 

 

Part 3    Note-Taking Skills

 

Building Skills

    Unit 1    Organizing your Notes

    Unit 2    Omitting Unnecessary Words

    Unit 3    Using Abbreviations and Symbols

    Unit 4    Determining What's Important

 

Applying Skills

    Unit 5    Evaluating Your Notes

    Unit 6    Note-Taking Practice

 

 

Part 4    Listening for Pleasure

 

Unit 1    Comedy Routine: Lucky Jack at the Laugh Factory

Unit 2    A Radio Play -- the Crimson Parrot: The Glory of the Seas