Active Listening is a three-level listening course in North American English that draws on recent research in comprehension. Each unit "activates" students' knowledge of a topic before they listen. Giving them a frame of reference to make predictions about what they will hear.

Expanding Understanding Through Content, the intermediate to high-intermediate level, offers students 20 engaging, task-based units- each built around a topic, function, or grammatical theme. Students learn to listen through a careful balance of activities that make use of real information from a variety of sources to promote understanding.

Major Features
- A "Before You Begin" unit to develop awareness of listening strategies
- Prelistening schema-building activities
- A carefully balanced variety of listening tasks
- Natural recordings with a range of accents
- Short readings to provide cross-cultural information
- A speaking activity in every unit
Each level of Active Listening consists of a Student's Book, an interleaved Teacher's Edition, and Cassettes.

- Plan of book
- Authors' acknowledgments
- Students' introduction
- Teacher's introduction

Before you begin Getting ready to listen and learn 2
1. What do you say first?
2. Sights and sounds
3. Pirates and such
4. Dating
5. A broad view of health
etc.