Listening Extra

This is a resource book for multi-level skills activities, aimed at young adults (16+) and adult learners. It focuses on listening comprehension, providing a diverse range of authentic tasks and activities. The book includes topics such as personal information, family, daily activities, travel, food, health, work, money, science, and social issues, all presented with original and interesting angles. The accompanying audio CDs contain listening practice with native and non-native accents, enhanced by a rich vein of humor.

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• Personal Information: Activities focus on topics like exchanging personal details, enrolling on a course, and describing personality traits. Activities include telephone conversations, completing student identity cards, and psychology tests.
• Family: The family theme includes discussions about family members, changing dynamics with children, and caring for the elderly. Activities include matching family photos to descriptions and identifying factual errors in family stories.
• Daily Activities: Focuses on describing daily routines, a day in the life of a language student or Jane Goodall, and activities for relaxation. Activities include completing course timetables, press interview notes, and ordering pictures in a meditation exercise.
• Homes: Activities discuss housing, renting, and interior design. Tasks include matching room descriptions to floor plans and discussing interior design preferences.
• Town and Country: This unit explores directions, traffic problems, and city tours. Activities include following a treasure hunt route and taking notes at town planning meetings.
• Travel and Tourism: Addresses travel planning, complaining about holiday packages, and recounting travel stories. Activities involve form filling, ordering pictures for a journey, and matching descriptions of haunted locations.
• Food and Drink: Activities explore cooking, ordering food in restaurants, and healthy eating. Tasks involve ordering from a menu, identifying ingredients, and true/false exercises about diet.
• Describing People: Focuses on describing friends, shopping habits, and concepts of beauty. Activities involve matching people to descriptions and completing notes from college lectures.
• Describing Things: Covers topics such as shopping and understanding art. Activities include matching descriptions to items and completing diagrams.
• Friends and Relationships: This unit focuses on internet dating, arranged marriages and friendships. Tasks include identifying character traits and inferring emotions from conversation.
• Health and Fitness: This covers gym memberships, miracle cures and general health. It includes activities such as spotting the difference in health clubs, ordering pictures while listening to stories, and taking a quiz.
• Leisure Time: Activities include describing popular free time activities, strange hobbies and movies. There are also tasks such as completing information for posters, making notes on free time activities, and role play.
• Education: This unit looks at evening classes, early school memories and home schooling. Tasks include student discussions on class, completing surveys and jigsaw activities.
• The World of Work: The unit focuses on job interviews, complaints, and Feng Shui in the work place. Tasks include filling a job application, ordering and taking notes.
• Money: Covers discussions on managing monthly expenses, sales techniques, and attitudes to saving. Tasks include filling forms, ordering items, and note taking.
• Past Experiences and Stories: The focus is on recounting experiences at an airport, listening to ghost stories and happy memories. tasks include ordering, conversations, and monologues.
• Science and Technology: The unit covers new rocket engines and colonization of other planets. The tasks include radio shows and formal debates.
• Social and Environmental Issues: This unit deals with recycling, reporting a crime and attitudes to begging. Tasks include completing leaflets, form filling and completing notes.