Tuning In: Listening and Speaking in the Real World - Softcover

Numrich, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131919326 ISBN 13: 9780131919327

Publisher: Pearson Education ESL, 2005

Synopsis

Tuning In offers intermediate students a unique opportunity to explore different listening genres from a variety of real-world sources. Authentic listening selections, including commercials, folk songs, oral histories, and call-in radio shows, provide a rich context for developing language skills. Engaging listening segments allow student to explore timeless themes such as love, volunteering, and childhood memories. Pre-listening activities help focus students on the theme and vocabulary while post-listening exercises provide practice with language functions, pronunciation, grammar, and critical thinking. Listening for Inference activities encourage students to infer the speaker's meaning, listen for attitudes and feelings through tone of voice, and interpret context. Unit wrap-up activities allow students to compare and contrast the three listening selections, analyze the linguistic components of each genre, and create a text of their own.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Tuning In offers intermediate students a unique opportunity to explore different listening genres from a variety of real-world sources. Authentic listening selections — including commercials, folk songs, oral histories, and call-in radio shows – provide a rich context for developing language skills.

 

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Features

• Engaging listening segments allow students to explore timeless themes such as love, volunteering, and childhood memories.
• Pre-listening activities help focus students on the theme and vocabulary, while post-listening exercises provide practice with language functions, pronunciation, grammar, and critical thinking.
• Listening for Inference activities encourage students to infer the speaker's meaning, listen for attitudes and feelings through the tone of voice, and interpret context. 
• Unit wrap-up activities allow students to compare and contrast the three listening selections, analyze the linguistic components of each genre, and create a text of their own.

Sample Audio

From Unit 8: Cooking Tips, Genre: Interviews

• Listening 1: The Chef Larry Show (2:45)
• Listening 2: Russ Parsons (2:57)
• Listening 3: Hugh Carpenter (2:47)

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson Education ESL
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0131919326
• ISBN 13: 9780131919327
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176