Listening Power is a 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 inferences, 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.
