Developing Listening Skills is a three-book series with topically based listening passages to enhance listening abilities. Throughout the series, learners will progress from easy to more challenging exercises in order to facilitate listening comprehension. The exercises combine listening with reading, speaking, and writing tasks to reinforce retention of high-frequency vocabulary and phrases.

1. Developing Listening Skills
Second Edition

2. Contents
• Overview
• Key Features
• Student Book
• Transcripts & Answer Key
• Student Digital Materials
• Teacher’s Materials

3. Overview
• Developing Listening Skills is a three-book series with topically based listening
passages to enhance listening abilities
• The course is designed specifically for students at intermediate or higher levels of
English.
• Throughout the series, learners will progress from easy to more challenging
exercises in order to facilitate listening comprehension
• The second edition of Developing Listening Skills expands with full color graphics,
newly revised, topically based listening passages, and enhanced listening activities
• Each unit is compromised of exercises combining listening with reading, speaking,
and writing tasks to reinforce retention of high-frequency vocabulary and phrases
• This series is suitable for both the classroom and self study

4. Key Features
• Integrated speaking practice in addition to
intensive listening exercises
• Full-color illustrations and photographs to
aid comprehension
• Discussion questions to develop student’s
speaking and listening abilities
• Detachable transcript and answer key
booklet
• Additional dictation activities available
online
• Timed listening quizzes and exams in every unit
• Authentic dialogs with supplemental listening activities related to the
topics

5. Student Book
• 12 units per book
• 12 pages per unit
• The unit themes are based on familiar
themes to high school and university
students
• Exercises in each unit follow a sequenced
format that leads students from easier to
more challenging listening tasks
• All books are based on repeated listening
practice, meaning that students hear
recorded conversations twice. Typically, the
first listening focuses on global
comprehension, while the second listening
focuses on details or vocabulary

6. Student Book
Warm-up:
Students hear four dialogs related to
the illustration or photograph. These
dialogs focus on common
expressions which students can use
with regard to the unit’s topic
Warm-up:
Students then complete a fill-in-the-
blanks activity after listening to the
passage for a second time
Warm-up:
Students are then asked to write and
orally practice sentences selected from
the dialog above

7. Student Book
Listening Practice:
Students listen to individual questions
and statements and pair up commonly
heard questions and answers. Students
cooperatively create sentences before
hearing a recorded description to check
their answers
Listening Practice:
Students then practice describing a
picture by creating their own sentences
using key words provided above the
picture

8. Student Book
Speaking Practice:
Students listen to individual
questions and statements in order
to practice an intonation or
pronunciation pattern.
Pronunciation activities focus on
reduced speech forms and liaison
between words, while intonation
activities focus on common stress
patterns for short passages
Speaking Practice:
Students complete a numbering
activity along with a quick
comprehension check by listening to a
short dialog

9. Student Book
Short Dialogs (1):
For the first dialog, two activities are included
in the unit. The firs time that students listen,
they answer questions about the dialog. The
second time , students follow along with the
text of the dialog to complete a cloze exercise
Short Dialogs (2):
For the second dialog, students listen and
answer questions about the dialog
Short Dialogs (3):
For the third dialog, students select the correct
information from the dialog that they hear

10. Student Book
Main Dialog:
Students listen to two longer dialogs.
The first listening asks students to
answer questions based on the
dialog
Main Dialog:
The follow-up listening asks
students to complete a cloze
exercise. After filling in the blanks in
the dialog. Students may use the
script for speaking practice when
paired with other students in the
class

11. Student Book
Short Talks (1):
Students practice listening with three short
speeches or talks. In the first part, students
listen and answer questions about the talk.
The second time they listen, students follow
along with the text of the talk and complete
another cloze exercise
Short Talks (2):
For the second talk, students listen and answer
questions about the talk
Short Talks (3):
For the third talk, students select the correct
information from the talk that they hear

12. Student Book
Listening Quiz:
The quizzes are based on two types
of exercises. In the first exercise,
students hear dialogs that they must
match to a situation shown in a
picture
Listening Quiz:
In the second exercise, students hear
short dialogs with oral questions and
choose the best answer to the
questions

13. Student Book
Wrap-up:
The unit ends with a short dictation practice
based on the unit’s main theme. This practice is
designed to provide interesting insight into some
aspect of the unit’s theme. In the first part, pre-
listening questions accompany each dictation
activity
Wrap-up:
For the second section of dictation practice, there
are listening comprehension questions to check
students comprehension of the material
Wrap-up:
Finally, the pre-listening discussion and listening
comprehension questions guides students to
complete the dictation practice in an overall
summary of the unit’s main theme

14. Student Book
Listening Test:
Test preparation is a key concern
of many students. Therefore
each unit includes a practice test
modeled after TOEIC exercises.
These practice tests primarily
follow the unit’s theme, so
students can gain further
exposure to vocabulary and
expressions related to the unit’s
main theme

15. Transcripts & Answer Key
The transcripts and answer key
provides both teachers and
students with additional
features to use in class or at
home. Teacher’s can use the
transcripts to introduce
additional language-learning
skills such as reading, speaking,
and writing, while students can
use these materials for
additional comprehension and
retention of knowledge

16. Tracking progress
Monitor learner’s progress with
the Teacher’s Report. Metrics on
student performance are provided
in a clear and simple way. It’s easy
to register and submit answers.
Fun and interactive
Providing a simple yet
engaging array of activities
for young learners.
OR
Download the Class Booster App
from Google Play or the Apple
App Store and install it on your
device
Student Digital Materials
How to access?
Install the Class Booster Developing Listening Skills –
Second Edition CD-ROM on your computer.

17. • Writing Worksheets
• Lesson Plan
• Downloadable and Streaming MP3 audio files
• Answer Key
• Transcripts
• Unit Test
• Class Booster student metrics

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