Active listening : building skills for understanding - student's book 2

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 your vacation?; Unit 13: Around the house; Unit 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 screams.

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.