Listening 3 Upper Intermediate Student S Book

This title develops learners' ability to understand real-life, spoken English through a variety of authentic recordings.

This is part of the Skills for Fluency series and is intended to develop learners' oral fluency by focusing on topics that are personally relevant to them. The activities are designed to enable students to draw on their own life experiences, feelings and cultural knowledge.

Grounded in the theory that learners are more successful listeners when they activate their prior knowledge of a topic. Class Audio CDs include natural conversational recordings for the listening tasks in each unit, pronunciation practice, and expansion units containing authentic student interview. Includes circling, short answer, multiple choice, pair work, listening and short answer exercises.

Cambridge Skills for Fluency is a learner-centred range of materials designed specifically to develop students' fluency and confidence in listening, speaking, reading and writing. The books are at four levels from pre-intermediate through to advanced and are suitable for use as supplementary texts or as core texts on skills development courses. Each book in the Cambridge Skills for Fluency series: * promotes fluency by presenting a wide variety of both old and new topics in creative and imaginative ways * genuinely engages students' interest and encourages them to share personal reactions and opinions fluently * focuses on a particular skill but the other skills are integrated in a way that reflects real-life use of language * contains 20 units designed to take about an hour of class time, a detailed contents map and brief teaching notes.

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Listening 1 develops students ability to understand real-life spoken English through recordings of spontaneous, natural speech, which have been carefully selected and edited for pre-intermediate learners. The activities are designed to encourage students to draw on their own natural listening strategies and to apply them effectively in the context of language learning.