Active Listening: Expanding Understanding through Content, is the highest level of the Active Listening series, a three-level listening course in North American English that draws on recent research in comprehension. This intermediate to high-intermediate text offers 20 engaging, task-based units, each built around a topic, function, or grammatical theme. Active Listening activates students knowledge of a topic before they listen, giving them a frame of reference to make predictions about what they will hear. At this level, students learn to listen through a careful balance of activities that make use of real information from a variety of sources to promote understanding. Major features: -- A Before You Begin unit to develop awareness of listening strategies -- Prelistening schema-building activities -- A carefully balanced variety of listening tasks -- Natural recordings with a range of accents -- Short readings to provide cross-cultural information -- A speaking activity in every unit Each level of Active Listening consists of a Students Book, an interleaved Teachers Edition, and two Cassettes.