Active Listening, Second Edition, is grounded in the theory thatlearners are more successful listeners when they activate their priorknowledge of a topic. Student's Book 1 is intended for beginning-level students. The Student's Book offers 16 task-based units, each builtaround 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 activitieshelp students build vocabulary, and listen-again activities provideadditional skills practice. A full page of optional speakingactivities with pronunciation practice is provided in each unit.Expansion units, with authentic student interviews, offer richcultural material and provide review. A free Self-Study Audio CD isalso included in every Student's Book. The Audio CD containssupplementary exercises. The corresponding Audio CDs are only soldseparately.
