Listening 4 develops learners' ability to understand real-life spoken English through recordings of spontaneous, natural speech, which have been carefully selected for advanced learners. The activities are designed to encourage students to draw on their own natural listening strategies and to apply them effectively in the context of language-learning. Listening 4 - includes a variety of voices and speaking styles - provides interesting pre-listening activities and language work to prepare students for listening - offers creative speaking and writing practice through enjoyable extension activities - is flexible and therefore easy to integrate with a main course - contains a detailed map to enable teachers to choose suitable units or activities - contains complete transcripts and brief teaching notes, making the material suitable for directed self-access

Cambridge Skills for Fluency is a learner-centred range of materials designed specifically to develop students' fluency and confidence in listening, speaking, reading and writing. They are at four levels from pre-intermediate through to advanced and are suitable for use as supplementary texts or as core texts on skills development courses. Each part in the Cambridge Skills for Fluency series: promotes fluency by presenting a wide variety of both old and new topics in creative and imaginative ways genuinely engages students' interest and encourages them to share personal reactions and opinions fluently focuses on a particular skill but the other skills are integrated in a way that reflects real life use of language contains twenty units designed to take about an hour of class time, a detailed contents map and brief teaching notes.

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