Listening and Note Taking B2-C1 – Coursebook + CD

Delta Academic Objectives: Listening and note-taking skills has been written to prepare students for academic listening, placing emphasis not only on practice with extended listening passages but also on continued language development through three main areas: Language Focus, Extension Activities, and Vocabulary Activities.

Delta Academic Objectives: Listening and note-taking skills develops essential comprehension skills in the context of real-life talks, presentations, and conversations. Longer listening passages help students' ability to follow such talks, presentations, and conversations for the longer periods of time common in academic and work environments.

Language Focus Sections help students develop thei note-taking skills, as well as their ability to recognize the underlying structures of talks and presentations.

Listening for Production and Listening for Meanings Sections offer students opportunities of further apply listening strategies to help prepare for listening in real-life academic situations.

Vocabulary Focus activities are designed to help students increase their lexical range, giving them experience - in context - with lower-frequency vocabulary, as well as developing their ability to use words and phrases from the Academic Word List.


Key Features:

* helps students develop the listening and note-taking skills described at B2 - C1 levels
* 3 audio CDs
* longer listening passages give students practice with extended listening
* themes relate to a wide range of commoc academic subject fields
* vocabulary activities focus on the words and phrases used naturally in the unit
* contains a key to exercises and tapescript for students working on their own