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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.

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521398851

ISBN-139780521398855

eBay Product ID (ePID)292243

Product Key Features

Number of Pages113 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameBuilding Skills for Understanding

Publication Year1994

SubjectEnglish As a Second Language, Learning Styles

FeaturesTeacher's Edition

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaForeign Language Study, Education

AuthorSteven Brown, Marc Helgesen

SeriesActive Listening Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight13.8 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width7.6 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN95-127892

Dewey Edition21

Target AudienceEnglish As a Second Language

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal428.3

Lc Classification NumberLb1065 .H44 1994b

Table of ContentIntroductionUnit 1 Getting to know youListening 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 EnglishListening task 1: Understanding what you hear.Listening task 2: Will this help?Unit 4 I'm hungryListening 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 outUnit 7 Where is it?Listening task 1: The ParkListening task 2: How do I get there?Unit 8 The world marketListening 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 houseListening task 1: I hate doing that?Listening task 2: I agree!Unit 14 ShoppingListening task 1: It's perfect!Listening task 2: I'll take it.Unit 15 Going placesListening task 1: How much do you know?Listening task 2: Game showUnit 16 Making plansListening task 1: Oops!Listening task 2: Monday morningUnit 17 Youth cultureListening task 1: Jeans, the "uniform" of the youth!Listening task 2: Rock and roll!Unit 18 Making a differenceListening task 1: Little things helpListening task 2: RecyclingUnit 19 It's in the news.Listening task 1: What are they talking about?Listening task 2: The six o'clock newsUnit 20 Dreams and ScreamsListening task 1: That's strangeListening task 2: Wait until the master comes