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12 American Voices: An Authentic Listening and Integrated-Skills Text

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What a wonderful collection of stories. These "12 American Voices" will captivate both you and your students... the tales on the accompanying CD are so engaging that I found myself listening to them in my car - for pleasure! The activities that surround each story are interesting, relevant and expertly designed to immerse students in the topic at hand. My students LOVED the book, and are only disappointed by the fact that they have finished it - they want MORE! I highly recommend this book for teachers and learners of English of practically all ages!

I bought this book because I am in the field of ESL Training in the Workplace. The listening activities in this book cover the different levels of listening: predictive listening, listening for specific information, and listening for analysis. The variety of questions before and after the listening exercise show effective ways of teaching listening to English as a second language learners. The book is generic for our purpose, but we adapt the framework with a more industry-specific material available to us.

You will learn many useful English expressions through fascinating stories. I love this textbook.