■ Top of the Pops Listening will magically enliven your classroom by motivating students with well-known popular songs. ■ Top of the Pops Listening aims at getting students accustomed to the ‘sound changes’ in spoken English through 12 all-time hit songs selected from the best-selling compilation album Love Light 3. ■ The textbook includes a variety of tasks such as pronunciation practice, listen and fill-in practice.
■70 年代以降のラブソングの名曲を集めた大ヒットアルバム,Love Lights 3を教材化。 ■音声変化の学習を中心に,聞き取りのポイント,歌詞の解釈,アーティストのプロフィールを掲載。
■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.
■Increases student appreciation of different cultural perspectives found worldwide
■Stimulates students and teachers to see the world with fresh eyes
■Encourages students to communicate enthusiastically in English
■Includes readings, interviews, vocabulary activities, and fun discussion exercises
■Extra Resources also available for Free download.
■Students will learn to communicate with topic based content.
■Develops Student's English ability through comprehensive speaking, listening and writing activities.
■Students will learn how to talk about their own culture with natural language.
■Natural language is recycled throughout the text.
■ In People Like Us and People Like Us, Too you'll meet people from different countries all over the world. But remember that your culture is not the same as your nationality. ■ Culture is what you do and where you live. ■ It's the things you like doing and the things you donユt like doing. It's how old you are and what is important to you. ■ It's the way you talk and your educational background. It's about your friends, your family and your own character. This is your cultural identity.
The People Like Us series has three aims:
● To help you find out about other cultures
● To help you find out more about your own culture
● To help you improve your English
■ The People Like Us books form an integrated skills course exploring cultural values and attitudes. Based on over forty hours of recorded interviews, the series allows you to sample the l
■ Students get a better understanding of the regional differences in America through readings which start with the origins of the Native Americans, the beginnings of America as a country, and move on to history, climate, industry, and lifestyles in all regions of America.
■ The second title in the Macmillan Cinema English series, American History in Focus, uses the beloved and award-winning movie Forrest Gump to illuminate the stormy age of post-WWII America. ■ Using the authentic DVD you can give your students an exciting lessons on real-life English expressions and modern American history. ● Lots of listening and comprehension quizzes using the dialogs from actual scenes from the movie. ● Expertly drawn illustrations make the textbook all the more appealing. ● Provocative reading passage and TOEIC-style questions for each unit.
■ American Justice in Focus is the fourth and newest entry in the Macmillan Cinema English Series. ■ Students will love the comedy and drama in The Rainmaker as they follow Matt Damon's legal adventures as he learns what it really means to be a lawyer. ■ As for language, students will learn a wide variety of useful grammatical structures and expressions that will provide a solid basis for future study. ■ In terms of culture, students will gain an appreciation of the American Justice system, including the jury system, and of American society as a whole.
■Introduces students to a variety of American traditions
■Improved rich practice in the four language skills of reading, listening, speaking and writing - with particular emphasis on reading and listening
■ In the USA is a comprehensive introduction to the US, its cities, people, music, food, politics . . . and more. ■ A series of very short readings and accompanying exercises gives students practice in all four language skills.
● The 40 reading practice sections include exercises and speaking activities
● The follow-up writing exercises and listening activities extend the topics
Talk, Talk: American Style
Meeting People
■生きた口語表現が習得できる新感覚の会話テキストとして好評を博してきたTalk, Talk: American Styleの改訂版。■内容をアップデートするとともに,セメスター単位でも活用しやすいように,1巻12章のテキストとして2巻を同時刊行。■自己紹介や相手との約束,メッセージのやりとりなどのトピックを収めたMeeting People,レストランやヘアサロン,図書館などでの日常生活のダイアログを収めたGoing Places。■米語的な決まり文句や言い回しが,モデルダイアローグや各種の演習を通じて着実に身につくように配慮。
■ This updated edition of Talk, Talk: American-Style uses situational dialogues to build speaking confidence. ◆ Each book contains 12 units, and the dialogues are packed with everyday, useful American English expressions and idioms. ◆ The first book, Meeting People, presents the language in practical contexts, such as self-introductions, making appointments, exchanging messages and more. ◆ The second book, Going Places, contains dialogues in everyday situations such as at a restaurant, a hair salon and a library and more.
■Speaking and listening exercises are based on homestay situations
■Students learn about family life and student life in the US.
■The DVD features two homestay families, three homestayers, and lots of
real-life interaction between them
■Documentary-style filming helps students understand what they may
experience if they were to go on a homestay
■Interviews with local students, teachers and staff, parents, homestay
siblings, and homestayers themselves
■Easy-to-use approach and interesting content have been rated highly by
students
■Cover wide range of topics from The Beatles, soccer, pubs and Queen Elizabeth.
■Improve comprehensive language performance mainly through reading based activities.
■Listening activities which relate to students views of British culture.
■Extensive vocabulary building exercises.
■ Twelve in-depth essays deal with various aspects of life in the UK, focusing on London, and include a variety of activities to promote thought and understanding. ■ Topics include ethnic minorities, class differences, social life, and student life.
■ In Britain is the introduction to British civilization and everyday English language. ■ This fully up-to-date 21st Century Edition gives students practice in all four key language-learning skills.
● Forty reading practice sections include pre-reading questions, comprehension exercises and speaking activities
● Activities sections contain follow-up listening, speaking and writing exercises
■ Fifteen interesting and unique topics steep your students in critical thinking skills and pave the way for discussion and encourage learners to think more deeply about various topics in a critical and abstract way. ■ Topics include everything from UFOs and psychics to advertising and reality TV.
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)
■ Top of the Pops Listening will magically enliven your classroom by motivating students with well-known popular songs. ■ Top of the Pops Listening aims at getting students accustomed to the ‘sound changes’ in spoken English through 12 all-time hit songs selected from the best-selling compilation album Love Light 3. ■ The textbook includes a variety of tasks such as pronunciation practice, listen and fill-in practice.
The Story of Popular Music
大衆音楽の源流を探ねて
■音楽文化論のロングセラーThe Story of American Popular Musicの改訂新版。■現代大衆音楽の大きな潮流の1つであるBritish Rock Music(ビートルズ,ローリング・ストーンズやパンクロックなど)も新たに加え,より広い視点から大衆音楽史の流れを追う。
■ The Story of American Popular Music has now been revised and expanded to include material on British music such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and the punk rock movement. ■ The Story of Popular Music is a fascinating journey for all music lovers.
■ In the English-speaking World takes students on a journey around the world of English. ■ In some 100 countries, from Australia to Zimbabwe, English is spoken as the first or second language. ■ English no longer belongs just to the British or even the Americans. ■ In the English-speaking World describes how and where English is spoken and how it helps the world to communicate.
■ Focusing on the history of spoken English, these readings look at the development of English all over the world. ■ An adaptation of the original work, this edition is written in simpler English and includes Japanese notes in the back.
■ The world is shrinking and we're just one big family who know each other very well. ■ Not so, says People Are Funny which uses humorous readings to poke gentle fun at the different cultures of countries from around the world.
● Is informative and loaded with cultural tips (in Japanese)
● Each of the 12 readings is accompanied by vocabulary and comprehension exercises