The 4 Audio CDs are included with the student book.

"Understanding academic lecture and taking good notes can be a challenge even for High-Intermediate to Advanced language students because it requires more than language skills. The third edition of Learn to Listen - Listen to Learn helps students acquire the listening comprehension and note-taking skills to meet this challenge successfully" (Book Cover).

CONTENTS:

Unit 1: Starting out: pre-coursework evaluation Evaluating Listening Comprehension and Note-Taking Skills
Lecture 1: Study Tips (Psychology)
Teacher's Note-Taking Feedback Form

Unit 2: Understanding lecture design Comparing the Language of Lecturing to the Language of Writing
Recognizing Cues
Recognizing Paraphrase, Repetition, Exemplification, and Digression
Summarizing Key Differences between the Language of Lecturing and the Language or Writing
Getting the Main Ideas Using Context and Prediction
Predicting Content and Lecture Direction

Unit 3: Recognizing introductions, conclusions and digressions Using Introductions to Recognize Lecture Focus and Direction
Recognizing and Comprehending Conclusions
Recognizing Digressions

Unit 4: The Basics of Note-Taking Noting Key Words
Using Abbreviations Thoughtfully
Using Note-Taking Symbols and Abbreviations
Visually Representing Relationships and the Relative Importance of Information
Lecture 2: ''Nu Shu'': Women's Unique Language (Linguistics)
Dos and Don'ts

Unit 5: Noting numbers and statistics Differentiating between Numbers That Sound Similar
Noting Years
Noting Large Numbers in Isolation
Noting Fractions and Decimals
Noting Ratios
Lecture 3: Exploring a Market: Attitudes toward Pets (Business/Sociology)
Lecture 4: Tobacco through the Millennia (Agriculture/History)

Unit 6: Focus on Lecture Organization (Part 1) Why Listen for Organization?
Organizational Plans within Lectures
Defining a Term
Listing Subtopics
Describing a Causal Relationship
Lecture 5: How to deal with stress (Psychology)
Lecture 6: Acid Rain (Ecology/Chemistry)

Unit 7: Focus on Lecture Organization (Part 2) Exemplifying a Topic
Describing a Process or Sequence of Events
Classifying Subtopics
Lecture 7: Archaeological Dating Methods (Anthropology)
Lecture 8: Pheromones (Biology)

Unit 8: Focus on Lecture Organization (Part 3) Describing Characteristics
Comparing and Contrasting
Making a Generalization and Providing Evidence
Lecture 9: The near side of the moon (Astronomy)
Lecture 10: Drink your green tea! (Food Science)

Unit 9: Tying it Together: End of Course Evaluation Lecture 11: Voter turnout in the United States (Political Science)
Lecture 12: The Pyramids of Egypt: an engineering feat (Engineering/History)

Appendix A: Academic Word List Vocabulary

Appendix B: Lecture Index by Organizational Plan

Appendix C: Lecture Index by Subject Matter

Appendix D: Rewritten Notes for Lectures 5-10