Listening Textbooks

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From $24.57 Active Listening, Second Edition, is grounded in the theory that learners are more successful listeners when they activate their prior knowledge of a topic. Student’s Book 1 is intended for beginning-level students. The Student’s Book offers 16 task-based units, each built around an engaging topic. Through a careful balance of activities, students learn to listen for main ideas, to listen for details, and to listen and make inferences. Prelistening schema-building activities help students build vocabulary, and listen-again activities provide additional skills practice. A full page of optional speaking activities with pronunciation practice is provided in each unit. Expansion units, with authentic student interviews, offer rich cultural material and provide review. A free Self-Study Audio CD is also included in every Student’s Book.	From $0.01 Through comprehensive content and careful sequencing, Basics in Listening provides intensive listening practice for students who need to activate and develop their understanding of spoken English. Features: *Listening strategies that help students become better learners. *Language review that highlights key language topics. *New vocabulary and culture notes to provide background information.	Paperback & CD From $14.44 Explore fascinating content while building language competence and critical thinking skills. The best-selling NorthStar series offers two strands: a reading and writing strand and a listening and speaking strand. Both strands stimulate students’ imagination, encourage critical thinking, and promote personal expression.
Paperback From $3.94 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.	Paperback From $7.18 Using real-life themes, high-interest narratives, and natural speech, “Listen to Me!” teaches the listening and speaking skills relevant to students’ lives.	Paperback From $13.75 About the Author: Jayme Adelson-Goldstein is an ESL teacher-trainer, consultant, and author living in Northridge, California. She began her ESL career working with helicopter pilots from the UAEi in 1981 and from there went on to work with the adult division of LAUSD as a classroom teacher, program coordinator, and professional development specialist. She taught the adult ESL methods courses at UCLA Extension for many years and was a part of the ESL Teacher Institute as well.
Paperback & CD From $2.21 Tactics For Listening is a comprehensive, three-level listening series that features high-interest topics to engage and motivate students.