Let’s Talk – Level 3 A Speaking and Listening course in American English for ESL students from Beginner to Intermediate level. High interest topics provide motivation and promote conversation, while information-gap activities provide additional speaking practice. Also includes vocabulary-building exercises to prepare students for each topic. Great for small or large groups. By Leo Jones - (CUP)   Order Now > Student's Book | Teacher's Manual | Audio-Cassettes (2) | Audio-CDs (2)     Improving Aural Comprehension An excellent resource which increases memory span by emphasizing concentrated, disciplined listening and immediate writing assignments that require heightened memory. Students practice reauditorizing, extracting vital information, remembering, and relating it. Exercises cover practical English, including direction, time, measurement, people, places, events, science, literature, and politics. Ideal for Intermediate level ESL students who need to develop their listening skills. By Joan Morley - (University of Michigan Press)   Order Now > Book | Cassette       Listening Dictation - Understanding English Sentence Structure Helps students to improve their ability to comprehend and tune into the "fast-speech" rules of spoken English. Students learn to focus on grammatical relationships within the natural flow of spoken English. Comes with an answer key. Serves as a great supplement to a mainstream text, or as a stand-alone listening resource. By Joan Morley - (University of Michigan Press)   Order Now > Book | Cassette     Active Listening An engaging 3-level listening course which offers students of American English 20 engaging, task-based units, each built around a topic, function, or grammatical theme. In the first two levels (Introducing and Building skills for understanding), 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 skills for understanding), listening activities are content-based, drawing on real information from a variety of sources. Suitable for students from Beginner to Intermediate level. By David Evans - (CUP)   Order Now > Level 1 Student's Book | Teacher's Edition | Cassettes | Audio-CDs Level 2 Student's Book | Teacher's Edition | Cassettes | Audio-CDs Level 3 Student's Book | Teacher's Edition | Cassettes | Audio-CDs       Listening Tasks For Intermediate students of American English who need to understand natural American English spoken at normal speed in everyday situations. Includes interesting and motivating topics, such as calling about an apartment, catching a plane, and finding out what's going on in town, plus special tasks, such as labelling a diagram or filling in a form. By Sandra Schecter - (CUP)   Order Now > Student's Book | Teacher's Manual | Cassette       On the Air This is a great listening resource for Intermediate to High-Intermediate level students of American English. It engages students by using authentic and provocative radio programs from National Public Radio and WRKO, Boston, to develop listening comprehension. By Catherine Sadow and Edgar Sather - (CUP)   Order Now > Student's Book | Instructor's Manual | Cassettes       Discovering American Culture A content-based text for studying American culture while learning the English language. The book teaches students how to talk about another culture and then introduces them to the American personality and aspects of the culture that many Americans share. Lessons in this book will help students identify dominant American values and their role in American society; comprehend different aspects of the patterns of living among Americans; and understand American culture in terms of values, behaviors, and beliefs. Each chapter focuses on improving listening, reading comprehension, and writing skills. An excellent supplementary skills resource for students at Intermediate level. By Cheryl L. Delk - (University of Michigan Press)   Order Now > Student Book | Teacher's Book | Cassette       Great Ideas A unique collection of absorbing and enjoyable fluency practice activities designed to improve the listening and speaking abilities of Intermediate and High-intermediate students. It includes photographs, advertisements, maps, drawings and cassette recordings, plus problem-solving, and other pair and group activities By Leo Jones and Victoria Kimbrough - (CUP)   Order Now > Student's Book | Teacher's Manual | Cassette       Speaking Clearly A useful resource for Intermediate to Advanced level learners of American English, which provides strategies and practice in overcoming problems of understanding and being understood by other speakers of English. It integrates pronunciation and listening and explains phonological features in clear, non-technical terms. By Pamela Rogerson and Judy B. Gilbert - (CUP)   Order Now > Student's Book | Teacher's Book | Cassettes       Learn to Listen, Listen to Learn This best-selling listening resource shows students how to get the most from academic lectures. This text shows how a typical lecture is organized, using actual excerpts and transcripts from 19 authentic lectures covering a wide range of topics. The book employs a 3-pronged approach to vocabulary instruction - defining, using, and retaining. It also incorporates a variety of quiz and test questions to familiarize students with the challenges of true false, multiple choice, and short answer items. For Intermediate to Advanced level students. By Roni S. Lebauer - (Longman)   Order Now > Text | Teacher's Manual | Cassettes (6)       Contemporary Topics A great 3-level academic listening and note-taking series which prepares students for the unique challenges of college by presenting valuable listening and note-taking skills. Each level contains 12 lectures which cover contemporary topics of interest from a range of academic subjects. Each lecture has been recorded to reflect the natural interaction between teacher and student that takes place in the classroom. Level 1 is for Intermediate level ESL/EFL students, Level 2 for High Intermediate and Level 3 for Advanced level students. (Edited) By Michael Rost - (Longman)   Order Now > Level 1 Text | Audiocassettes | Audio CDs | Answer Key & Quizzes Level 2 Text | Audiocassettes | Audio CDs | Answer Key & Quizzes Level 3 Text | Audiocassettes | Audio CDs | Answer Key & Quizzes       Whaddaya Say? This is an excellent listening aid for all ESL/EFL students, particularly those at Intermediate level and above. Clear and easy-to-use, it introduces students to the most common reduced forms of spoken English for "going to, want to, have to", and more - fully contextualized in conversations that are both practical and entertaining. Each of the book's 30 lessons includes an audio segment that introduces new reduced forms, followed by comprehension questions and practice exercises. By Nina Weinstein - (Longman)   Order Now > Book | Cassettes (3)     Sound Advice This best-selling listening skills resource helps students understand rapid, relaxed English, starting at the word and sentence levels and expanding to short conversations. The text/audiocassette combination helps students develop tier own strategies for understanding language as it is spoken and exposes them to a variety of listening phenomena essential for comprehension of authentic, natural speech. For Intermediate to Advanced level students. This new edition contains TOEFL style questions that help students prepare for the listening portion of the TOEFL test. By Stacey A. Hagen - (Longman)   Order Now > Book | Teacher's Manual | Cassettes (3)   Back to Bookstore