Have You Heard...? [antikvár]

IntroductionHave You Heard ? is a set of twenty units of aural comprehension practice. Each unit consists of three short listening passages with additional material and exercises based on each one. The units are intended for lower level students, who may have studied English in their own country for two or three years or spent a short time studying in England. They are particularly useful to the student who has little opportunity to hear English speakers, and are designed to prepare students to go on to the intermediate level aural comprehension books, Listen to This! and What a Story! (by the same author and published by Oxford University Press).The AimThe aim of these units is to teach students to listen effectively and to enable them to select the information they require from what they hear. The emphasis is on the student's role as 'listener'. The use of real (unscripted) speech gives students the opportunity to experience the ordinary, everyday language of the native speaker, which they are unlikely to find in the usual class situation, where they probably meet a more deliberately patterned type of language.>1The MaterialThere are two tapes containing, in all, sixty extracts from recorded conversations (three per unit). Each extract is between one and two minutes in length.The number of speakers in each extract varies, but the same speakers recur frequently through the recordings so that the problems of listening are reduced as the student becomes familiar with some of the voices.The speakers come from various parts of the British Isles so the student has the opportunity to hear a selection of voices and accents; see The people you hear on pages 6-7, where regional accents are noted. However, none of the accents is very marked, and students at this level should not experience particular difficulty.