Marc Helgesen

The Active Listening series is a three-level listening course in North American English. It draws on recent research in comprehension, and offers students 20 engaging, task-based units, each built around a topic, function, or grammatical theme. In the first two levels (Introducing and Building), students learn to …

This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. The Teacher's Edition provides teaching suggestions, optional activities, listening scripts, and answer keys for the Student's Book.