Listening Power 1

Listening Power 1

<P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <I> <B> <I>Listening Power</I> </B> </I> is a 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.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <I> <B> <I>Listening Power 1</I> </B> </I> features three distinct parts designed to be used concurrently.</P> <UL> <LI> <B>Language Focus</B> teaches essential and sometimes difficult to understand language structures such as <I>Wh-</I> questions, Yes/No and alternative questions, contractions, numbers and letters, and time expressions. <LI> <B>Comprehension Focus</B> presents skills for understanding the topic, listening for the main ideas and details, and making inferences. Activities to help students apply the skills follow the presentation. <LI> <B>Listening for Pleasure</B> uses 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.</LI> </UL>