SUMMARY:

"Listening Power is 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. Listening Power 2 features four distinct parts designed to be used concurrently.

Language Focus teaches essential and sometimes difficult to understand language structures such as questions, numbers, reduced forms, homonyms, and sentence stress.

Comprehension Focus presents skills for understanding mains ideas and details, making inferences, and understanding sequences. Activities to help students apply the skills follow the presentation.

Note-Taking Skills teaches students how to identify important words and information. This section also presents helpful techniques such as use of abbreviations, symbols, and formatting.

Listening for Pleasure 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" (Book cover).

CONTENTS:

Part 1: Language Focus
Unit 1: Understanding Questions
Unit 2: Understanding Numbers
Unit 3: Understanding Reduced Forms
Unit 4: Understanding Homonyms
Unit 5: Understanding Sentence Stress

Part 2: Comprehension Focus

Building Skills
Unit 1: Understanding Main Ideas and Details
Unit 2: Making Inferences
Unit 3: Understanding Sequence

Applying Skills
Unit 4: The Problem with Eyewitnesses
Unit 5: The Whale's Tale
Unit 6: Art in the Fields

Part 3: Note-Taking Skills

Building Skills
Unit 1: Omitting Unnecessary Words
Unit 2: Using Abbreviations
Unit 3: Using Symbols
Unit 4: Determining What's Important

Part 4: Listening for Pleasure
Unit 1: A TV Game Show
Unit 2: Urban Legends

Level: Intermediate