Sound Advice: A Basis for Listening, Second Edition (Student Book) [Paperback]

Stacy A. Hagen (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130813613 | ISBN-13: 978-0130813619 | Publication Date: August 26, 1999 | Edition: 2nd

Sound Advice, Second Edition helps students understand rapid, relaxed English, starting at the word and sentence levels and expanding to short conversations. The text/audiocassette combination helps students develop their own strategies for understanding language as it is spoken and exposes them to a variety of listening phenomena essential for comprehension of authentic, natural speech.

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Sound Advice, Second Edition, maintains the comprehensive, skills approach to discrete point listening that has made it an enduring best-seller, with the valuable addition of thoughtprovoking questions to stimulate pair and group discussion. Sound Advice helps students understand rapid, relaxed English, starting at the word and sentence levels and expanding to short conversations. The text/audiocassette combination helps students develop their own strategies for understanding language as it is spoken and exposes them to a variety of listening phenomena essential for comprehension of authentic, natural speech.
New features include:

• Art-based preview activities that familiarize students with the oftentroublesome aspects of listening comprehension.
• Contextualized exercises that students can understand and relate to, from school and travel to dining out.
• Unique chapter review ¿chants¿ that reinforce what students have learned.
• TOEFL®-style questions that help students prepare for the listening portion of the TOEFL® Test.

Product Details

• Paperback: 183 pages
• Publisher: Longman; 2nd edition (August 26, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130813613
• ISBN-13: 978-0130813619
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #397,659 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good for the people's listening, April 13, 2000

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Eric Lin (Taiwan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sound Advice: A Basis for Listening, Second Edition (Student Book) (Paperback)

My teacher recommended this book and took it as the context. It solved our many listening problem. I have studied it every chapter. It is really good for my listening.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent listening and supplemental pronunciation text, July 5, 2006

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fairleft (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sound Advice: A Basis for Listening, Second Edition (Student Book) (Paperback)

This book is excellent for topics like linking and ellipsis, and the way unstressed vowels are pronounced as one of our two minimal vowel sounds. It also can be flipped around and used as an outstanding, if not essential, supplement to most pronunciation texts. I'm a biased teacher in that I think pronunciation books tend to over-emphasize sentence stress, which learners can pick up naturally, rather than discrete sounds, which they generally cannot.