Developing Listening Skills 2/e (Intermediate)

Developing Listening Skills 2/e (Intermediate)

特 色
專為具備基礎聽力能力的學習者設計，聽力單元以不同的主題介紹常用的字彙和片語。
全書各單元的編排皆由淺入深，自然引領學習者聽力練習。

The second edition of Developing Listening Skills expands with full color graphics, newly revised, topically based listening passages, and enhanced listening activities. This series is suitable for both the classroom and self study. Throughout the series, Developing Listening Skills progresses from easy to more challenging exercises in order to help facilitate listening comprehension. The exercises combine listening with reading, speaking, and writing tasks to reinforce retention of high-frequency vocabulary and phrases.

Features

l   Authentic dialogs

l   Full-color illustrations and photographs aid comprehension

l   Supplemental listening activities related to the topics

l   Listening quizzes and unit exams to check learning progress

l   Real world listening practice, featuring interesting and useful topics

l   Discussion questions to develop student’s speaking and listening abilities

l   Separate transcripts & answer key

l   Extra dictation activities available online

教學指引

Warm-up

Students see a picture illustrating the units theme and hear four dialogs related

to the picture. These dialogs focus on common expressions students would typically

hear or use with regard to the unit’s topic or situation. As students listen to the

dialogs, their attention is focused toward the four objects or people labeled in the

illustration connected with what they hear. Students listen a second time to complete a matching activity. Then students practice orally selected sentences taken

from the dialogs.

Speaking Practice

Students listen to individual questions and statements in order to pair up commonly heard questions and answers. Students also practice describing a picture by

creating their own sentences using key words provided above the picture. This activity works well as a paired activity in which students cooperatively create sentences

before hearing the recorded description to check their answers.

Listening Practice

Students hear a set of vocabulary items related to the unit’s theme and then

hear these same items used in short dialogs. This activity is followed by four longer

dialogs. Students listen to the four dialogs twice: once to match the dialogs to pictures and once to listen for details related to the dialogs.

Short Dialogs

In this activity, students hear two short dialogs. The first time students listen,

they answer questions about the dialog. The second time, students follow along with

the text of the dialog and complete a cloze exercise. After filling in the blanks in the

dialog, students may use the script for speaking practice when paired with other students in the class.

Main Dialog

This section is similar in format to Short Dialogs; however, here students listen

to a longer dialog twice. During the first listening, students answer questions based

on the dialog. During the follow-up listening, students complete a cloze exercise.

After filling in the blanks in the dialog, students may use the script for speaking

practice when paired with other students in the class.

Short Talks

This exercise allows students to practice listening with two short speeches or

talks. First, students listen in order to answer questions and then listen again to

complete a cloze exercise.

Listening Quiz

A short quiz is included with each unit. This quiz may be used to check the

development of students’ listening ability. The quizzes are based on two types of

exercises. In the first exercise, students hear dialogs which they must match to a situation described with a picture. In the second exercise, students hear short dialogs

with oral questions and choose the best answer to the questions.

Listening Test

Because test preparation is a key concern of many students, each unit includes a

practice test modeled on TOEIC exercises. These practice tests primarily follow the

unit’s theme, so students can gain further exposure to vocabulary and expressions

related to the unit’s theme.