Listening Power 3

#xA0; #xA0; Listening Poweris a new three-book series with a targeted approach to teaching the listening skills that students need inside and outside the classroom and on standardized tests such as the TOEFL and TOEIC. #xA0; Listening Power 3features four distinct parts designed to be used concurrently. Language Focusteaches essential and sometimes difficult advanced-level skills such as reduced forms, patterns of intonation, and idiomatic expressions. Comprehension Focuspresents skills for understanding main ideas, supporting ideas, and details; making inferences, distinguishing facts and opinions; and recognizing organizational patterns. Activities to help students apply the skills follow the presentation. Note-Taking Skillsteaches students how to identify important words and information. This section also presents helpful techniques such as use of abbreviations, symbols, and formatting. Listening for Pleasureuses interesting audio material from movies, TV, radio, and recorded storytelling to help students understand the more subtle meaning communicated through tone of voice, sentence stress, and reduced forms.

Part 1 Language Focus

Unit 1 Understanding Reduced Forms

Unit 2 Understanding Intonation

Unit 3 Understanding Idioms

Part 2 Comprehension Focus

Building Skills

Unit 1 Listening for Main Ideas, Supporting Ideas, and Details

Unit 2 Making Inferences

Unit 3 Distinguishing Facts and Opinions

Unit 4 Understanding Patterns of Organization

Applying Skills

Unit 5 What's Up? McArthur's Universal Corrective Map

Unit 6 Aha! Moments

Unit 7 To the Bottom of the World ... by Tractor

Part 3 Note-Taking Skills

Building Skills

Unit 1 Organizing your Notes

Unit 2 Omitting Unnecessary Words

Unit 3 Using Abbreviations and Symbols

Unit 4 Determining What's Important

Applying Skills

Unit 5 Evaluating Your Notes

Unit 6 Note-Taking Practice

Part 4 Listening for Pleasure

Unit 1 Comedy Routine: Lucky Jack at the Laugh Factory

Unit 2 A Radio Play -- the Crimson Parrot: The Glory of the Seas

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