Reasons for Listening is a collection of listening materials and tasks designed to give students a wide range of listening practice at upper - intermediate and more advanced levels .
The recordings cover a variety of situations where the listener does not interact directly with a speaker , for example , when listening to news broadcasts , public announcements , radio commentaries , discussion programmes , radio and television interviews and so on .
The tasks based on the recordings provide the ' reason for listening ' : they are activities which we might all carry out in response to something we have heard . In the real world , some listening tasks are easier than others and the book starts with some simple tasks and recordings before moving on to more complex examples , of the kind found in the new Royal Society of Arts Examinations in the Communicative Use of English and in the new Certificate of Proficiency examination .
Reasons for Listening consists of a book and a set of two cassettes . The cassettes contain 2 7 recordings grouped in nine different categories of listening situation providing a choice of subject matter in each category .
The book contains :
a range of activities from table - filling to group discussions
transcripts of all the recordings
a key to the exercises for students studying alone
helpful teacher ' s notes with suggestions on how best to use the material in class .
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