Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1981. — viiі, 136 pages. — ISBN 978-0-521-23136-7.Task Listening aims to develop the hstening skills of students who have had little exposure to authentic spoken English. It is suitable for elementary and also more advanced students whose listening has been developed primarily as a means to a grammatical or structural end.Task Listening aims to help students to sift out utterances of relevance and ignore redundant features, a skill vital to efficient listening at all levels of language learning.Each of the twventy-six units consists of a short tape-recording and related tasks. The recordings are of people speaking at normal speed in everyday situations. Each unit has as its theme a setting or situation in which listening plays a major part, for example, at an airport listening for flight announcements or at a travel agency being told about different means of transport. In each case, having completed the necessary language work, students listen to the tape and extract the information necessary to complete a simple task, such as labelling a picture or filling in a grid. Related reading and writing tasks are provided as a follow-up to each listening task.The Teacher’s Book contains extensive notes on how to use the material and completed tasks for each unit. The notes give
suggestions to prepare students for listening and include the key language for each recording.The complete course consists of
Student’s Book
Teacher’s Book
CassetteIntroduction
Catching the right train
Catching a plane
Forecasting the weather
Sightseeing
Finding out the house rules
Phoning a flat-owner
Using a bank account
Leaving a message
Learning how to use a machine
Finding the way
Enquiring about a course
Hiring a car
Finding out who's who
Fixing an appointment
Making enquiries at a travel agency
Shopping
Moving in
Phoning a garage
Flat hunting
Talking about television
Finding out what's on
Guessing what people are talking about
Following instructions
Parking in London
Doing puzzles
Spotting the culprits
