Active Listening. Expanding Understanding Through Context /
Marc Helgesen, Steven Brown, Dorolyn Smith.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- xi, 70 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Accompanied by Teacher's edition and sound cassettes.
What do you say first?; 2 Sights and sounds; 3 Pirates and such; 4 Dating; 5 A broad view of health; 6 Advertising; 7 Superstitions; 8 Communicating; 9 People's best friends; 10 Mind your manners; 11 Tales from the past; 12 Decisions, decisions; 13 Your type of personality; 14 You've got to have art; 15 I wonder how that works; 16 A matter of values; 17 Food for thought; 18 We mean business; 19 Everything we know is wrong; 20 Poetry
This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. Expanding Skills for Understanding is the intermediate level of the Active Listening series. By activating students' knowledge of a topic before they listen, the text gives them a frame of reference to make intelligent predictions about what they will hear. The listening activities are content-based, drawing on real information from a variety of sources.