TY - BOOK AU - Helgesen,Marc AU - Brown,Steven AU - Smith,Dorolyn TI - Active Listening SN - 0521398835 (Student's book) AV - LB1065 .H44 1996 PY - 1996/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Listening KW - Study and teaching KW - English language KW - Textbooks for foreign speakers KW - United States N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -