Text & Audio CD
ISBN ISBN 978-1-896942-15-5 ¥2,300
Top-Up Listening 1, 2, 3
by Chris Cleary, Bill Holden and Terry
Cooney
Series Editor:
Maurice Jamall Level:
The Top-Up series progresses from
the Elementary to the Pre-Intermediate level. Approx.TOEIC Range:
Top up Listening 3 : 450 – 600
Top up Listening 2 : 350 – 500
Top up Listening 1 : 300 – 400
 
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"...actually teaches students how to listen"
- Bronia Holmes, in English
Teaching Professional (Book
Reviews, Issue 30, January 2004)
Intro
to the series | Sample
pages | Audio Files
Teacher's
Notes | Answer Key
| Student Tests
View the Table of Contents for Top-Up 1
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Combing an explicit focus on the Top-down listening skills
together with bottom-up decoding skills, all within a communicative framework.
Students get practice in listening for meaning and looking at language
form. Listening as it was meant to be taught!
Read some testimonials
from other teachers! |
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The Top-Up Listening series features English as it is actually
spoken.
Top-Up gives students practice in drawing meaning from naturally
spoken English in two ways: using their knowledge of the world and of
the language to guess what's coming next, and using their knowldge of
how English is actually structured as a sound.
Whaddaweemean? - how words run together, how sounds are lost, how vowels
naturally weaken and entire words are dropped. Without knowledge of such
patterns, listening is impossible. Lots of practice! Lots of variety!
Top-Up Features
- A wide range of listening types: announcements, newscasts, conversations,
service encounters
< listen
to a sample announcement | list
all audio files>
- A wide variety of listening tasks: listening for gist, listening
for overall understanding, listening for specific information
- Practice in inferencing, practice in using knowledge of content,
practice in predicting and checking
- Listening Clinics: explicitly teaching the sound system of English
— how sounds change or are lost or are inserted, how sounds run
together
< listen
to a sample Listening Clinic| list
all audio files>
- Speaking tasks: helping students think about and
get ready for what they will hear and giving students the opportunity
to use language from the listening in an active way
- Topics of intrinsic interest to college-age students
<View the Table of Contents for Top-Up 1
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- An attractive and colorful layout
<view a sample
page from Top-Up 3 | list
all sample pages>
For information on the background SLA theory behind Top-Up Listening
and why you need to be teaching listening "explictly" please
click here.
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