Synopses & Reviews
This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. The Teacher's Edition provides teaching suggestions, optional activities, listening scripts, and answer keys for the Student's Book.
Synopsis
Active Listening: Introducing Skills for Understanding is the high-beginning to low-intermediate level of the Active Listening series.
Synopsis
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. This high-beginning to low-intermediate text offers 20 engaging, task-based units, each built around a topic, function, or grammatical theme. Active Listening activates students' knowledge of a topic before they listen, giving them a frame of reference to make predictions about what they will hear. Students learn to listen through a careful balance of activities including listening for gist, listening for specific information, and making inferences.
Table of Contents
**NOTE: Some chapter titles may change. Before you begin: How do you learn English?; Unit 1: Meeting new people; Unit 2: Brothers and sisters; Unit 3: Numbers ; Unit 4: Let's Eat!; Unit 5: What do you do in your free time?; Unit 6: That's a nice shirt.; Unit 7: Furniture and houses; Unit 8: How do you start your day?; Unit 9: I'd like to see that!; Unit 10: Where is it?; Unit 11: Midnight special; Unit 12: Gifts and greetings; Unit 13: Time changes everything; Unit 14: Can you describe it?; Unit 15: Languages; Unit 16: I like that!; Unit 17: Strange news; Unit 18: Holidays; Unit 19: Inventions;Unit 20: Folktales