Listening

Basics in Listening
Rost, Michael Uruno, Munetsugu B-LI 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. SB 962-00-1029-9 $22.95 IM 962-00-1030-2 $18.95 CASS 962-00-1031-0 $92.95

Just Joking
Heyer, Sandra 0-13-193022-2 LB-B $26.95

Relaxed learners are more able learners. And what better way to relax students than through humour? Classroom-tested for universal appeal, the humorous passages in Just Joking are guaranteed to bring a smile to students faces, using topics such as skydiving, marriage, memory, and a new job.

Strategies in Listening
Rost, Michael Uruno, Munetsugu HB-I Strategies in Listening exposes students to a variety of listening situations, speaking styles, and tasks that will help them learn strategies for understanding American English as it is naturally used. Each unit is organized thematically, emphasizing practical communication skills. SB 962-00-1033-7 $22.95 IM 962-00-1034-5 $25.95 CASS 962-00-1035-3 $92.95 CD 962-00-1036-1 $92.95

Learn to Listen, Listen to Learn

Lebauer, Roni S. 0-13-919432-0 A $42.95

Students are taught to: Use language cues and conventions that indicate organization and emphasis. Deal with numbers and statistics. Predict upcoming information. Organize their notes for maximum effectiveness.

Other features new to this edition include: Supplementary readings drawn from todays newspapers and magazines for pre post-lecture discussions. Follow-up writing or speaking and listening activities designed to develop critical thinking skills.

Contemporary Topics
Solorzano, Helen Frazier, Laurie Kisslinger, Ellen Beglar, David Murray, Neil I-A Contemporary Topics is a three-level series that prepares students for the challenges of college by presenting a wide range of listening and note-taking strategies while targeting corpus-based vocabulary drawn from the Academic Word List. The series ranges from intermediate to advanced. 1-SB 1-CASS 1-CD Teachers Pack 2-SB 2-CASS 2-CD Teachers Pack 3-SB 3-CASS 3-CD Teachers Pack 0-13-094853-5 0-13-094856-X 0-13-094857-8 0-13-094854-3 0-13-094858-6 0-13-094859-4 0-13-094861-6 0-13-094850-0 0-13-094862-4 0-13-094864-0 0-13-094866-7 0-13-094865-9 $26.95 $55.95 $55.95 $16.95 $26.95 $55.95 $55.95 $16.95 $26.95 $55.95 $55.95 $16.95

Learn to Listen, Listen to Learn utilizes a three-pronged approach to vocabulary instructiondefining, 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. TM CASS 0-13-919440-1 0-13-919457-6 $20.95 $89.95

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Face the Issues

Numrich, Carol I Twelve authentic radio interviews on compelling contemporary topics with international appeal, such as loss of family traditions, women in combat, and how environmental issues can affect the economy. Note-taking practice reviews and consolidates important ideas for application in follow-up activities. SB 0-201-84672-1 CASS 0-201-69518-9 SB/CASS PKG 0-201-69519-7 $28.95 $54.95 $61.95

Sound Advice
A Basis for Listening
Hagen, Stacy A. I This new Second Edition maintains the comprehensive, skills approach to discrete point listening that has made Sound Advice an enduring bestseller, with the valuable addition of thought-provoking questions to stimulate pair and group discussion. Sound Advice 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 their 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. SB TM CASS 0-13-081361-3 0-13-081362-1 0-13-081363-X $31.95 $20.95 $83.95

Consider the Issues

Numrich, Carol 3rd Edition HI Twelve thought-provoking units emphasize discussion, debate, and values clarification. Topics include cell phone courtesy, globalization, medicine as business, philanthropy, and the influence of the media. Pronunciation strand provides practice with sound patterns. Inferencing questions encourage students to find implied meanings. 0-13-111593-6 0-13-111595-2 0-13-141171-3 0-13-111594-4 $28.95 $54.95 $54.95 $4.95

Topics from A to Z
Schoenberg, Irene E. B-LI Topics from A to Z is a conversation/ listening series designed for beginning to low-intermediate students. Twenty-six unitsone for each letter of the alphabettakes readers on a journey from the straightforward to the highly imaginative, using topics such as childhood memories, jazz, and phobias. By integrating content with context, Topics from A to Z offers meaningful learning opportunities. Each unit opens with an engaging piece of art and a thoughtful question to immediately involve students in the learning process. Facts and Memory sections use proven approaches to reinforce vocabulary and language structure, while clearly labeled illustrations help students acquire new words. 1-SB 1-CD 2-SB 2-CD 0-13-185073-3 0-13-185074-1 0-13-185076-8 0-13-185077-6 $26.95 $43.95 $26.95 $43.95

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Raise the Issues

Numrich, Carol 2nd Edition A Integrates all four skills while encouraging students to think critically about American attitudes and values. Combines original broadcasts with authentic webzine, magazine, and newspaper articles, to present different viewpoints. Features units on current issues ranging from generic engineering to the impact of the Internet. 0-201-62100-2 0-201-61999-7 0-201-62107-X 0-201-76472-5 0-201-62131-2 $29.95 $36.95 $36.95 $4.95 $61.95

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Academic Listening Encounters:

Human Behaviour
Espeseth, Miriam HI-LA This book develops students' listening, note-taking and discussion skills using a variety of recorded authentic interviews and classroom lectures. The Class Audio Cassettes contain the listening material for the Student's Book. The material includes warm-up listening exercises, informal interviews, and authentic academic lectures. The listening program is also available on Audio CDs. SB TM CASS CD 0-521-60620-9 0-521-57820-5 0-521-57819-1 0-521-78357-7 $35.10 $38.40 $107.25 $107.30

Active Listening
Helgesen, Marc Brown, Steven Smith, Dorolyn HB-I Active Listening 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.

Introducing Skills for Understanding

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Academic Listening Encounters:

Life in Society
Sanabria, Kim I-HI Academic Listening Encounters: Life in Society develops students listening and note taking skills using authentic interviews and classroom lectures. The Class Audio CDs contain the same listening material as for the Student's Book. The material includes warm-up listening exercises, informal interviews, and academic lectures. The listening program is also available on Audio Cassettes. SB TM CASS CD 0-521-75483-6 0-521-75484-4 0-521-75485-2 0-521-75486-0 $35.10 $32.50 $72.80 $72.80

Building Skills for Understanding

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Expanding Understanding Through Content

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Great Ideas
Jones, Leo Kimbrough, Victoria I-HI Great Ideas is a unique collection of absorbing and enjoyable activities designed to improve the listening and speaking abilities of intermediate to high-intermediate students. Students are encouraged to exchange their ideas and opinions about a wide range of topics, including entertainment, current events, employment, strange phenomena, the future, and advertising. Photographs, advertisements, maps and drawings, cartoons, and excerpts from magazines and newspapers help stimulate this exchange. Specially designed communication activities motivate students to share information by providing each student with some information that the other does not have. The accompanying cassette consists of both scripted and authentic recordings of people speaking naturally, with the normal pauses, hesitations, and interruptions that occur in everyday spoken language. The Teachers Manual gives detailed notes on presenting the activities, as well as suggestions for follow-up work.

Listening Tasks: For Intermediate Students of American English

Schecter, Sandra 0-521-27898-8 $22.95 I Listening Tasks is designed for students who need to understand authentic English spoken at normal speed in everyday situations. Practical topics, such as calling about an apartment, catching a plane, and finding out whats going on in town, make the material interesting and motivating. The Cassette contains improvised dialogs, telephone exchanges, public address announcements, and other short recordings of spontaneous, natural speech. Related reading and writing tasks are provided as follow-up. TM CASS 0-521-27897-X 0-521-26258-5 $26.95 $36.50

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Good News, Bad News

Barnard, Roger PI Good News, Bad News is a listening and discussion text designed around an entertaining collection of true stories about interesting characters and events. Based on actual news reports, the course is intended for adults and young adults at the pre-intermediate and intermediate levels. Each three-page unit focuses on a story presented in radio news format. All units feature a series of task-based activities designed to guide students from general to detailed understanding of the news report and to provide meaningful fluency practice related to the storys theme. Good News, Bad News features: Short, focused units that can be completed in one class period Interesting, light-hearted listening passages based on actual stories from the news Vocabulary building exercises that introduce and practice new language A variety of communicative, task-based listening and speaking activities An optional Extra Practice section to consolidate new vocabulary SB 0-19-434873-3 $25.95 TM 0-19-435057-6 $24.95 CASS 0-19-435058-4 $31.95 CD 0-19-435059-2 $35.95

Listen to the Loon

White, Joan Roberta 0-19-541175-7 I $30.50

LISTEN TO THE LOON is a new Canadian listening program for intermediate to advanced ESL students. Students learn about the history, geography, and people of Canada while developing their listening skills. The program includes 14 units covering each province and territory of Canada including Nunavut. Students hear talks about the rain forests of British Columbia, fiddleheads growing in New Brunswick, the gold rush boom in the Yukon, the famous Bluenose schooner from Nova Scotia, and much more! Various activities reinforce the information and develop students skills. CASS 0-19-541212-5 $31.95

Springboard
Richards, Jack C. PI-I The topic-based syllabus encourages students to talk about their own lives, aspirations and interests. Language models and key expressions give students clear guidance in developing the ability to initiate a conversation and keep it going, and respond to ideas, comments, and questions. Listening skills (including listening for gist, attitude, inference, information and main ideas) are systematically developed. Short, interactive tasks and personal surveys guide students towards conversational fluency. Project files, containing a project for each unit, help bridge the gap between language study and language use, and provide opportunities for student creativity and personal expression. A Springboard Glossary facilitates vocabulary development by providing definitions of key vocabulary with the text, together with pronunciation information and example sentences. 1-SB 1-TB 1-CASS 1-CD 2-SB 2-TB 2-CASS 2-CD 0-19-435350-8 0-19-435351-6 0-19-435352-4 0-19-435197-1 0-19-435353-2 0-19-435354-0 0-19-435355-9 0-19-435198-X
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Tactics for Listening

Richards, Jack C. HB-I Tactics for Listening is a comprehensive, three-level listening series that features high-interest topics that engage and motivate students.

Basic Tactics for Listening

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Developing Tactics for Listening

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Expanding Tactics for Listening

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Tapestry Listening & Speaking Series!

Benz, Cheryl Dworak, Kara Hartmann, Pamela McVey Gill, May Carlisi, Susana Fragiadakis Kalkstein, Helen Maurer, Virginia HB-A Listening selections from authentic news broadcasts, interviews, conversations, debates, and stories prepare students for understanding college assignments. A variety of speaking activities such as role plays, skills, debates, and presentations provide opportunities for students to use vocabulary, language functions, and knowledge of topics. Academic Power Strategies, such as finding a mentor or forming a study group, give students the knowledge and skills to become successful, independent learners. Language Learning Strategies help students maximize their learning and become proficient in English. Apply-the-Strategy activities encourage students to take charge of their learning and use their new skills and strategies. CNN video clips expand the topics and further develop listening and speaking skills. Setting Goals and self-assessment sections help students monitor their own progress. 1-SB 1-SB/CASS PACK CNN Video for 1 & 2 IM for 1 & 2 2-SB 2-SB/CASS PACK 3-SB 3-SB/CASS PACK CNN Video for 3 & 4 IM for 3 & 4 4-SB 4-SB/CASS PACK 0-8384-0009-4 0-8384-0005-1 0-8384-0007-8 0-8384-0008-6 0-8384-0016-7 0-8384-0011-6 0-8384-0023-X 0-8384-0018-3 0-8384-0008-6 0-8384-0027-2 0-8384-0029-9 0-8384-0024-8 $42.95 $51.50 $71.95 $32.70 $44.95 $43.00 $42.95 $51.50 $32.70 $32.70 $40.00 $43.00

Noteworthy
Lim, Phyllis L. Smalzer, William HI-A Noteworthy develops students listening and notetaking skills, provides insights into U.S. life and culture, and builds crossdisciplinary vocabulary. SB CD 1-4130-0398-2 1-4130-0593-4 $42.00 $150.00

Advanced Listening Comprehension

Dunkel, Patricia A. A Pialorsi, Frank

Lectures and readings on topics of universal interest provide stimulating content-based material for developing comprehension, notetaking, and academic study skills. SB CD 1-4130-0396-6 1-4130-0603-5 $42.00 $150.00

Listen In
Nunan, David HB-I Real-life listening practice uses listening passages based on authentic sources. Starter Unit provides an overview of each book's listening skills and strategies. In Focus section offers opportunity for cultural comparison and personalization in each unit. Language boxes highlight key expressions related to each unit's topics and goals. Vocabulary and Expressions Glossary and Listening Skills Index are included at the back of each book for easy reference. Student Audio CD included in every Student Book for risk-free practice outside the classroom. 0-8384-0418-9 0-8384-0419-7 0-8384-0422-7 0-8384-0427-8 0-8384-0439-1 0-8384-0440-5 0-8384-0445-6 0-8384-0446-4 0-8384-0467-7 0-8384-0474-X 0-8384-0475-8 0-8384-0476-6 $42.00 $39.00 $117.50 $112.50 $40.50 $39.00 $117.50 $112.50 $40.50 $39.00 $101.00 $105.00

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Intermediate Listening Comprehension

Dunkel, Patricia A. I Lim, Phyllis L.

This text is designed to familiarize students with the major rhetorical patterns of formal, spoken English. SB CD 1-4130-0397-4 1-4130-0596-9 $37.00 $150.00

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Listen to Me!
Foley, Barbara H. 0-8384-5264-7 B $38.65

Gotcha!
Speaking and Listening Activities for Intermediate Learners
Matuck, Alyssa Vali, Yasmin I Gotcha! Is a bright and exciting textbook that provides an exceptional variety of in-class and at-home activities. Each chapter is build around a realistic dialog that has a surprise or unexpected ending (hence Gotcha!). SB TG CASS $43.50 1-56270872-4 0-7685-0011-7 0-7685-0154-7 $25.10 $21.30 $24.50

Listen to Me! Is designed to improve student listening skills. The text offers a variety of reallife topics interacting with neighbors, returning to school, making job decisions, health and emergencies, and experiencing divorce embedded in a central storyline. SB/CASS PACK 0-8384-0734-X $71.35

Now Hear This!

Foley, Barbara H. 0-8384-5270-1 HB

Listen!
B-I A series of unique listening comprehension workbooks with integrated grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation practices. Passages (5 minutes on average) and related work are featured on 2 pages. Recordings feature a variety of major accents (GB/US/ Canada). This is a series of designed to captivate learners attention as they explore and learn new things about the past (and maybe the future!), all in English.

Streamlined units for shorter courses High-interest personal and job situations Pre-listening questions Narrative and conversational passages Conversation, pronunciation, and information-gap activities Tapescript/answer key at the end of the text 0-8384-0465-0 $63.00

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The Heart of the Matter

Vai, Marjorie 0-8384-7857-3 HI $51.35

Listen! 1-Voices of Today

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Varied audio selections, including authentic interviews, mini-lectures, dialogues, and songs Critical thinking and problem-solving activities Topics such as legacy of the blues, work in the 21st century, crime as entertainment, and the dream world Materials for social and academic/business listening and speaking skills Video for American culture and commentary 0-8384-6087-9 $73.35

Listen! 2-Voices of the Past

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Listen! 3-Voices out of Time

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