Active Listening: Building Skills for Understanding Teacher's edition: (Active Listening)

This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. Building Skills for Understanding is the low-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. Students learn to listen through a careful balance of activities, including listening for gist, listening for specific information, and making inferences.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Unit 1 Getting to know you Listening task 1: How about you? Listening task 2: Friends or strangers? Unit 2 What's your number? Listening task 1: May I ask your number? Listening task 2: How's your arithmetic? Unit 3 Learning how to learn English Listening task 1: Understanding what you hear. Listening task 2: Will this help? Unit 4 I'm hungry Listening task 1: Now that's a sandwich. Listening task 2: What's cooking? Unit 5 Don't! Listening task 1: What do they really mean? Listening task 2: You can't do that. Unit 6 How do you feel? Listening task 1: I really should be more careful. Listening task 2: Stressed out Unit 7 Where is it? Listening task 1: The Park Listening task 2: How do I get there? Unit 8 The world market Listening task 1: Where is it from? Listening task 2: World Trade Expo! Unit 9 What do they look like? Listening task 1: They've changed a little. Listening task 2: That's different! Unit 10 What do you do? Listening task 1: Who are they talking to? Listening task 2: Where are you going to be working? Unit 11 I wouldn't ask that. Listening task 1: What do they talk about? Listening task 2: A day in the life... Unit 12 How was your vacation? Listening task 1: Did you have a good time? Listening task 2: A weekend to remember (unfortunately) Unit 13 Around the house Listening task 1: I hate doing that? Listening task 2: I agree! Unit 14 Shopping Listening task 1: It's perfect! Listening task 2: I'll take it. Unit 15 Going places Listening task 1: How much do you know? Listening task 2: Game show Unit 16 Making plans Listening task 1: Oops! Listening task 2: Monday morning Unit 17 Youth culture Listening task 1: Jeans, the "uniform" of the youth! Listening task 2: Rock and roll! Unit 18 Making a difference Listening task 1: Little things help Listening task 2: Recycling Unit 19 It's in the news. Listening task 1: What are they talking about? Listening task 2: The six o'clock news Unit 20 Dreams and Screams Listening task 1: That's strange Listening task 2: Wait until the master comes