■ The Essential Listening series is designed specifically with high-beginner Japanese students in mind. ■ It is a great supplementary series, and lessons take about 15 minutes to complete. ■ It is versatile, and can be used effectively with small or large classes. ■ Two review/self-study CDs are included with the student books.
■各課とも20分程度で終了できる格好の副教材。カラフルな図版満載。自習用CD 2枚付き。 ●TOEICや英検に出題される応答問題形式(旅行,日常生活,ビジネスなどの場面で繁茂に使われる表現の聴き取りと質問に対する適切な応答)で,英会話の実用表現をマスター。
■Popular listening series with an emphasis on fun and ease of use. Written especially for Japanese students studying English in Japan.
■Major revision of the foundation level text, Airwave Basic, which prioritized students’ interest. Not just limited to listening classes, also suitable for listening and speaking classes.
■The much anticipated advanced level, Airwaves Advanced. With an emphasis on listening, gain the necessary skills to listen to news, lectures and long passages.
Well-known, best-selling listening series' basic level has been revised. Updated contents and design while keeping its usability. More focus on listening skills, lighter design which can be completed even in one-semester course.Learning points designed for Japanese students and familiar topics for beginners.
■Students will improve their listening skills by listening to audio of various Guinness World Records topics.
■The interest topics will stimulate students, and the abundant activities will effectively improve listening skills.
■Beginner level text which improves overall practical English communication abilities by focusing on sounds which Japanese people find most difficult, and are indispensable for communication.
■Filled with clever ideas to gain interest of the students such as skills with a story line, video which shows the movements of the mouth, etc.
A series from renowned TOEIC expert Lin Lougheed, Learning to Listen acknowledges the difficulty that many students have understanding real spoken English and helps them to:
◆listen appropriately
◆understand correctly
◆make sense of what they hear
Above all, Learning to Listen helps students to enjoy the richness and variety of spoken English.
A series from renowned TOEIC expert Lin Lougheed, Learning to Listen acknowledges the difficulty that many students have understanding real spoken English and helps them to:
◆listen appropriately
◆understand correctly
◆make sense of what they hear
Above all, Learning to Listen helps students to enjoy the richness and variety of spoken English.
A series from renowned TOEIC expert Lin Lougheed, Learning to Listen acknowledges the difficulty that many students have understanding real spoken English and helps them to:
◆listen appropriately
◆understand correctly
◆make sense of what they hear
Above all, Learning to Listen helps students to enjoy the richness and variety of spoken English.
Breaking News Listening
Improving English Skills Through SHADOWING Practice
■Focuses on shadowing (simultaneously listening to and repeating what you hear), a highly effective language learning technique that provides lots of practice with the sounds, intonation, stress patterns and overall rhythm of English
■Presents real world listening examples and language learning tasks in a way that engages young adult learners and allows them to practice language that is meaningful and used in everyday situations
■Includes vocabulary building and comprehension exercises that enable students to understand and discuss current issues and news events in a personal context
Song
Developing Listening Skills through Rock and Pop
■「歌で英語の音声変化を学習するリスニング教材」として,大好評を博したHit Parade Listeningの改訂版。
【変更箇所】
"Heal the World"(Michael Jackson)→"Honesty"(Billy Joel)
■ Hit Parade Listening Third Edition brings English alive with 20 well-known pop melodies sung by famous international artists. ■ Understanding natural spoken English is a challenge for Japanese students, and these enjoyable, catchy songs demonstrate the confusing ‘sound changes’ that occur in everyday speech.
【Song Replacement】
"Heal the World"(Michael Jackson)→"Honesty"(Billy Joel)
Smash Hit Listening: Second Edition
English through Rock & Pop
■学生にもっとも人気の高いポップソング12曲を厳選。リーディングの英文を簡素化し,聞き取りのポイントを日本語でやさしく解説。■初級学習者を想定した学習内容。
【変更箇所】
"We Are the World"(Michael Jackson)→"I Want to Know What Love Is"(Foreigner)
■ Twelve all-time popular songs have been specially selected from the best-selling listening textbook series Hit Parade Listening and Hot Beat Listening. A simpler, easy-to-use format now makes these songs accessible to lower-level learners. ■ Smash hits by great artists allow students to enjoy learning English while listening to music!
【Song Replacement】
"We Are the World"(Michael Jackson)→"I Want to Know What Love Is"(Foreigner)
■Keeps beginners interested with fun, high interest topics.
■Two focused sets of listening exercises in each unit to help improve listening ability.
■Full of expressions and phrases commonly found in daily conversations.
■Teacher's Manual includes extra units.
■ Cubic Listening is a popular series consisting of 12 short listening books graded into four levels from Introduction to Pre-intermediate, and covering a TOEIC range of 250 to 650.
■ Each volume has 20 units (2 pages each) and can be used over a semester or as an intensive course.
■ Tear-out answer sheets that are perfect for TOEIC Test preparation make it easy to chart your students' progress. To top it all, learners can download free audio from www.mlh.co.jp.
■ By listening to brief news reports covering various topics, students will become better able to understand authentic news broadcasts.
■ The Essential Listening series is designed specifically with high-beginner Japanese students in mind. ■ It is a great supplementary series, and lessons take about 15 minutes to complete.■ It is versatile, and can be used effectively with small or large classes. ■ Two review/self-study CDs are included with the student books.
■ Listening Dictation with VOA, Vol. 1 uses selected topics from the VOA (Voice of America) Special English show, which uses English with slower speed and a simplified vocabulary for non-native speakers of English. Each unit contains extensive dictation tasks and many exercises that help students fully understand the content and expand their listening and writing skills. The audio files are available from www.mlh.co.jp.
■ Listening Here and There is designed to improve flexibility and confidence in intermediate-level Japanese students' listening skills.■ In this textbook, students begin to employ the different levels of listening that we all use naturally: listening for general meaning and specific details, working with sounds (such as contraction, elision, assimilation and reduction), using listening comprehension strategies, and strategies for how to respond appropriately. ■ Exercises develop these strategies, helping your students overcome difficulties they had with spoken English.
■ Listening Power aims to develop the listening skills of beginner-level students through an integrated task- and skills-based approach.
■ Listening Power has a wide range of graded listening activities, based on real-life situations and backed up with great illustrations. ■ Pre-listening activities build your students' confidence and relevant, interesting topics keep them motivated.
■ Listening Power aims to develop the listening skills of beginner-level students through an integrated task- and skills-based approach. ■ Listening Power 2 develops listening skills in young adult learners. ■ Students improve their ability to listen to spoken English through a comprehensive range of tasks, including listening for the main idea, listening for specific information, and drawing inferences.
■ Students today are familiar with the idea of an environmentally friendly lifestyle. ■ The Looking Back, Moving Forward series focuses on grass-roots efforts such as “slow food” and “fair trade” and it provides a much-needed look at the environmental issues all around us. ■ It thus enables students to improve their general command of English and come to think in English through reading, listening to and discussing various environmental issues.