TY - BOOK AU - Kenny,Tom AU - Wada,Tamami TI - Listening Advantage 1 SN - 9781424001750 (text with audio CD) PY - 2008/// CY - Boston PB - Thomson Heinle KW - English language KW - Textbooks for foreign speakers KW - Spoken English KW - Problems, exercises, etc KW - Listening KW - Beginners N1 - 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 UR - https://ngl.cengage.com/search/productOverview.do?N=4294918395+200&Ntk=P_EPI&Ntt=137404167114947763475303259121179214792&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&homePage=false UR - http://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781424001972 ER -