Active listening : expanding understanding through content : student's book 3

By:

Helgesen, Marc

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.Description: xi, 70 p. : illustrations (some color), color mapsISBN:

0521398835
9780521398831

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

428.34 HEL

Contents:

1 What do you say first?; 2 Sights and sounds; 3 Pirates and such; 4 Dating; 5 A broad view of health; 6 Advertising; 7 Superstitions; 8 Communicating; 9 People's best friends; 10 Mind your manners; 11 Tales from the past; 12 Decisions, decisions; 13 Your type of personality; 14 You've got to have art; 15 I wonder how that works; 16 A matter of values; 17 Food for thought; 18 We mean business; 19 Everything we know is wrong; 20 Poetry

Summary: This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. Expanding Skills for Understanding is the 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. The listening activities are content-based, drawing on real information from a variety of sources.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Reference Books	Main Library Reference	Reference	428.34 HEL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		006676

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This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. Expanding Skills for Understanding is the 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. The listening activities are content-based, drawing on real information from a variety of sources.

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