Contents; Introduction; Before you begin how do you learn English?; Unit 1 Getting to know you; Unit 2 What's your number; Unit 3 I'm hungry; Unit 4 Gestures; Unit 5 Didn't you see that sign?; Unit 6 How do you feel?; Unit 7 Where is it?; Unit 8 The world market; Unit 9 What do they look like?; Unit 10 What do you do?; Unit 11 what are they talking about?; Unit 12 How was you vacation?; Unit 13 Around the houseUnit 14 Shopping; Unit 15 Going places; Unit 16 Making plans; Unit 17 Youth Culture; Unit 18 Making a difference; Unit 19 It's in the news; Unit 20 Dreams and screamsEach unit includes: Warming up, Listening task, Culture corner, Listening task and Your turn to talk

Summary: The Active Listening series is a three-level listening course in North American English. It draws on recent research in comprehension, and offers students 20 engaging, task-based units, each built around a topic, function, or grammatical theme. In the first two levels (Introducing and Building), students learn to listen through a careful balance of activities, including listening for gist, listening for specific information, and making inferences. In the third level (Expanding), listening activities are content-based, drawing on real information from a variety of sources.