Includes Practice Tests. Audio files are available for download on the Publisher's Student Companion Website.

"This new four-level, strategies-based course is designed to improve listening skills through the use of activities and topics that are meaningful to students' lives.

Features:
Realistic listening passages include social conversations, transactional dialogues, broadcasts, and announcements.
12 easy-to-teach four-page units make Listening Advantage ideal for short courses.
"Language Focus" sections raise students' awareness of key grammatical and functional patterns.
"Conversation Strategy" sections build active listening strategies such as responding appropriately, showing interest/surprise, and clarifying when you don't understand.
Catch It! sections show learners how to break speech down into chunks and listen for stress, intonation, and pronunciation cues.
Mid-Book and Final Practice Tests familiarize students with common standardized test formats.
Self-study audio CD with accompanying exercises provides additional homework or language lab practice." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS:
Scope and Sequence
Introduction
Useful Expressions

DAILY LIFE

Unit 1 Names and Addresses
Lesson A How do you spell that?
Lesson B What's your e-mail address?
Language/Strategy: Basic Phrases; Showing you're listening
Catch it! Spelling out words

Unit 2 Numbers
Lesson A Can I have your number?
Lesson B I'm free on the 14th at 7 o'clock.
Language/Strategy: Requesting information; Repeating
Catch it! Syllable stress

Unit 3 Going Places
Lesson A How do you get there?
Lesson B What do you do after school?
Language/Strategy: Adverbs of frequency; Showing understanding
Catch it! Syllable stress

PLACES AND THINGS

Unit 4 Locations
Lesson A Where is it?
Lesson B How do you get there?
Language/Strategy: Prepositional phrases; Clarifying directions
Catch it! Weak forms of prepositions

Unit 5 Likes and Dislikes
Lesson A What's your favorite?
Lesson B Good idea!
Language/Strategy: Rejoinders; Showing agreement and disagreement
Catch it! Weak forms of would you / do you + like

Unit 6 My Stuff
Lesson A Nice shirt!
Lesson B How much?
Language/Strategy: Giving and receiving compliments; Reacting to prices
Catch it! Reduced pronouns

PEOPLE I KNOW

Unit 7 Home Life
Lesson A My dad's a salesman.
Lesson B Wow, you have a lot of CDs!
Language/Strategy: Yes/no questions; Introducing a question with "So, ..."
Catch it! Intonation for questions

Unit 8 Classmates
Lesson A What's he look like?
Lesson B Is that in fashion?
Language/Strategy: Comparing people; Repeating the question
Catch it! Breaking sentences into chunks

Unit 9 Best Friends
Lesson A Chuck's a really cool guy!
Lesson B What's she like?
Language/Strategy: like/enjoy + verb; Getting time to think
Catch it! The sound /the/

HOPES AND DREAMS

Unit 10 Holidays
Lesson A Let's go!
Lesson B I really like winter!
Language/Strategy: Inviting; Returning a question
Catch it! What/How about you?

Unit 11 Dating
Lesson A What kind of guy?
Lesson B How about dinner and a movie
Language/Strategy: Accepting and refusing invitations; Making suggestions
Catch it! Can vs. can't

Unit 12 My Future
Lesson A I want to be a TV star!
Lesson You get three wishes!
Language/Strategy: Hope/want + to...; Showing excitement
Catch it! Reduced forms of want to and going to

Practice Test 2

Introduction to the Self-Study Units

Self-Study Units