Active Listening: Introducing Skills for Understanding (Student's Book 1) [STUDENT EDITION] (Paperback)

by Marc Helgesen (Author), Steven Brown (Author) "Dear students: We hope that you learn a lot of English..." (more)
Key Phrases: listening task, United States

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Product Description
Active Listening: Introducing Skills for Understanding is the lowest level of the Active Listening series, a three-level listening course in North American English that draws on recent research in comprehension. By "activating" students' knowledge of a topic before they listen, the course gives them a frame of reference to make predictions about what they will hear. Active Listening offers students twenty engaging, task-based units, each built around a topic, function, or grammatical theme. Students learn to listen through a careful balance of activities including listening for gist, listening for specific information, and making inferences. Active Listening consists of a student's book, an interleaved teacher's edition, and two cassettes.

Book Description
This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities.

Product Details

• Paperback: 69 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (July 28, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521398819
• ISBN-13: 978-0521398817
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #846,815 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

• This item is part of The Active Listening  Series.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best ESL Listening Activities Book, February 6, 2002

By	Catherine Greene (Silver Spring, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Active Listening: Introducing Skills for Understanding Teacher's edition (Paperback)

I have worked with hundreds of books and materials teaching EFL/ESL in Asia and the U.S., and this book has the some best listening activities out of everything else that I have seen. One of my favorite features is the that the cassette uses a great variety of voices and accents.

2.0 out of 5 stars Caution: This Is Strictly For ESL Students, April 29, 2004

By	Robert C. Dean (Lancaster, PA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Active Listening: Introducing Skills for Understanding Cassettes (2 ) (Audio Cassette)

This title is really misrepresented as being for general use. In fact, it is strictly for those who are well along in the process of learning to speak and understand English.