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1. Advanced Listening Comprehension: Developing Aural
& Note-Taking Skills by Patricia A. Dunkel, Frank
Pialorsi, Joann Kozyrez, Paperback: 208 pages,
Publisher: Heinle
Emphasizes listening and note taking skills used in
college course work. The text presents an integrated,
practice approach designed to sharpen prelistening and
lecture orientation skills, demonstrating to students
how to develop summaries and notes by practicing with
actual full length lectures, introductions, and related
news articles. The five units feature interesting
lecture topics in history, politics, ecology, gender
relations, and intercultural communication..
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Great Ideas Student's book: Listening and Speaking Activities for Students of American English by Leo Jones, Victoria Kimbrough; Paperback: 112 pages; Cambridge University Press
This is a unique collection of absorbing and enjoyable
fluency practice activities designed to improve the
listening and speaking abilities of intermediate and
advanced students of American English. Students are
stimulated to express their ideas in English by a wide
range of photographs, advertisements, maps and drawings,
together with varied and lively recordings. In the
activities the students solve problems, exchange
information, describe their experiences, and participate
in role plays and discussions. All the listening
exercises and many of the speaking activities are
task-based to give students a sense of realism and
involvement. Specially designed communication activities
motivate students to share information by providing each
participant with some information the other does not
have. The cassette consists of short interviews,
telephone exchanges, public announcements, actual radio
commercials, conversations, and other recordings of
people speaking naturally with the normal pauses,
hesitations, & interruptions that occur in spoken
language.
3. Northstar: Focus on Listening and Speaking,
Advanced Second Edition by Sherry Preiss, Paperback: 288
pages, Publisher: Pearson ESL
New and updated high-interest topics motivate students
to express their own points of view. Expanded vocabulary
and pronunciation practice ensure greater language
proficiency. A grammar correlation chart links NorthStar,
Second Edition, to two leading grammar series: Focus on
Grammar and the Azar Grammar series. The fully
integrated approach includes a teacher's manual with
achievement tests, process writing activity books, audio
recordings of the main reading and listening sections, a
new video program, and companion website (with
vocabulary worksheets, video worksheets, Internet
activities, and other resources).
4. Impact Listening 3! For Intermediate & Advanced
Students (Student Book with Self-Study Audio CD) by
Kenton Harsch, Kate Wolfe-Quintero, Paperback: 95 pages,
Publisher: Pearson ESL
The Impact Listening Series includes a topicbased
syllabus coordinated across all levels, as well as an
Interleaved Teacher's Manual with an abundance of
teaching tips. For students, the series offers:
Effective use of humor and interesting visual elements;
Follow-up short speaking activities for each section;
Self-Study appendix with free audio CD.
5. Lingua TOEFL CBT Listening Practice Test 1-4 by
Research Team, Lingua Forum; Paperback: 280 pages
Publisher: Independent Publishers Group
Publishes TOEFL CBT prep materials that are written by
native speakers who are experienced in teaching and
writing. Geared toward the specific challenges of the
TOEFL CBT listening section, this test preparation guide
includes four practice tests designed to simulate the
test-taking experience. Detailed answer explanations are
included for each test. Also provided are newly
introduced question forms including multiple answer,
matching, ordering, and graphic questions.
6. CAE Listening and Speaking Skills Cassette set by
Diana Pye, Simon Greenall, Audio Cassette, Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Offers a bridge between communicative methodology and
the needs of the exam class. Designed to prepare
students for the various CAE papers, these books also
consider the four skills in their wider application
through the use of exciting topics and enjoyable
communicative activities. The skills relevant to Papers
4 and 5 are covered in this single book. Each unit is
divided into two sections, one dealing with listening
and the other with speaking, linked to a common topic.
Topics are innovative and unusual, offering students a
genuine stimulus for speaking activities. Exam Tips
boxes give students detailed advice about what to expect
during each of the CAE papers, and the book offers
plenty of opportunity to practise the type of activities
that will be encountered during the paired interview.
The cassettes feature authentic recordings from diverse
sources.
7. IELTS Preparation and Practice Listening and
Speaking by Wendy Sahanaya, Jeremy Lindeck; Paperback:
99 pages Publisher: OUP Australia & New Zealand
The series is a complete training course for students
intending to sit the IELTS (International English
Language Testing System). It reflects the format of the
test and develops the necessary skills for each module.
The series offers separate titles for the Academic
Modules and the General Modules. Practice tests are
provided, together with step-by-step descriptions and
models of how to answer test questions. Includes useful
tips. Answer Key and transcripts of all listening tasks.
The contributing authors are accredited IELTS examiners.
The material is suitable for use in class and for
self-study. The new edition of the Listening and
Speaking Book and Cassettes incorporate the changes to
the exam. NEW - Practice Tests with Annotated Answer Key
& Practice Tests cassette.
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