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 3 features four distinct parts designed to be used concurrently.

Language Focus teaches essential and sometimes difficult advanced-level skills such as reduced forms, patterns of intonation, and idiomatic expressions.

Comprehension Focus presents skills for understanding main ideas, supporting ideas, and details; making inference; distinguishing facts and opinions; and recognizing organizational patterns. 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 Reduced Forms
Unit 2 Understanding Intonation
Unit 3 Understanding Idioms

Part 2 Comprehension Focus

Building Skills
Unit 1 Listening for Main Ideas, Supporting Ideas, and Details
Unit 2 Making Inferences
Unit 3 Distinguishing Facts and Opinions
Unit 4 Understanding Patterns of Organization

Applying Skills
Unit 5 What's Up? McArthur's Universal Corrective Map
Unit 6 Aha! Moments
Unit 7 To the Bottom of the World... by Tractor

Part 3 Note-Taking Skills

Building Skills
Unit 1 Organizing your Notes
Unit 2 Omitting Unnecessary Words
Unit 3 Using Abbreviations and Symbols
Unit 4 Determining What's Important

Applying Skills
Unit 5 Evaluating Your Notes
Unit 6 Note-Taking Practice

Part 4 Listening for Pleasure
Unit 1 Comedy Routine: Lucky Jack at the Laugh Factory
Unit 2 A Radio Play - the Crimson Parrot: The Glory of the Seas

CONTENTS:

Part 1 Language Focus

Unit 1 Understanding Reduced Forms
Unit 2 Understanding Intonation
Unit 3 Understanding Idioms

Part 2 Comprehension Focus

Building Skills
Unit 1 Listening for Main Ideas, Supporting Ideas, and Details
Unit 2 Making Inferences
Unit 3 Distinguishing Facts and Opinions
Unit 4 Understanding Patterns of Organization

Applying Skills
Unit 5 What's Up? McArthur's Universal Corrective Map
Unit 6 Aha! Moments
Unit 7 To the Bottom of the World... by Tractor

Part 3 Note-Taking Skills

Building Skills
Unit 1 Organizing your Notes
Unit 2 Omitting Unnecessary Words
Unit 3 Using Abbreviations and Symbols
Unit 4 Determining What's Important

Applying Skills
Unit 5 Evaluating Your Notes
Unit 6 Note-Taking Practice

Part 4 Listening for Pleasure

Unit 1 Comedy Routine: Lucky Jack at the Laugh Factory
Unit 2 A Radio Play - the Crimson Parrot: The Glory of the Seas

Level: High-intermediate.