Listening Advantage is a four-level, strategies-based course designed to improve listening skills through the use of activities and topics that are meaningful to students’ lives.
‧ 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 srudenis 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.
‧ Practical Teacher’s Guide makes lesson preparation quick and simple.

Listening Advantage分為四個等級，著重學習方法，活動和主題內容和學生生活密切相關，透過適當應用，增強聽力技巧。
◎ 實用的聽力內容包括社交應對、交易對話、廣播和聲明。
◎ 每冊共十二單元，四頁一單元的內容，適合時數短的課程。
◎ 「語言放大鏡」幫助學生深入了解主要的文法架構，和交際溝通的句法。
◎ 「會話秀出來」建立主動的聽力技巧，例如適當地回應、表現興趣/訝異、表達困惑。
◎ 「一聽就懂!」傳授學生細分聽力內容，聆聽抑揚頓挫和發音的訣竅。
◎ 期中和期末的模擬測驗協助學生熟悉常見的基本考題型式。
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