English Listening Comprehension Recordings
language laboratory catalog
Advanced Listening Comprehension (Dunkel/Pialorsi) (EN 1.031)
academic lectures on a variety of topics; good for developing aural and note-taking skills; for advanced students; text available; each lecture = 15-20 minutes; 4 hours 46 minutes (total time).
Better Listening Skills (Sims/Peterson) (EN 1.021)
recorded lectures on academic subjects; very good for students who are having difficulty understanding English in the classroom; for intermediate-advanced students; text available; each lecture = 6-13 minutes; 44.18 minutes (total time).
Everyday Dialogues in English (Dixson) (EN 1.032)
new, revised edition of dialogues to acquaint students with the vocabulary and idiomatic forms used in everyday situations; for beginning-intermediate students; text available; each dialogue = 4-5 minutes; 2 hours 45 minutes (total time).
Expressways 3-B English for Communication (Molinsky/Bliss) (EN 1.042)
a functional English program for students who have been exposed to the essentials of intermediate-level grammar and who have mastered the usage of English for everyday life situations; audio program offers realistic presentation of dialogues for chapters 10-18 of the text Expressways and selected guided conversation exercises in the Student Course Book; tapes are designed to be used interactively, so that the recorded voice serves as the student's speaking partner; text, Student Course Book and companion Workbook available; each lesson 30-40 minutes; 6 hours 21 minutes (total time).
Feelings (Doff/Jones) (EN 1.034)
conversational English for upper-intermediate and more advanced students; 12 units designed to teach students (1) to talk about feelings; (2) to understand the feelings being expressed by others; (3) to express feelings in a wide variety of situations; British language and cultural references are used; each unit = 2-3 minutes; 34 minutes (total time).
Interview (Cornelius) (EN 1.009)
unrehearsed interviews with Americans (a veterinarian, a police officer, a professional baseball player) on the subject of their jobs; spoken at normal speed; uses fairly advanced vocabulary; text available; each interview = approx. 8 minutes; 1 hour 24 minutes (total time).
It's All in a Day's Work (Draper/Sather) (EN 1.017)
introduces semi-technical words and word forms related to various professions, includes exercises for oral practice, listening comprehension, dictations, composition topics; for intermediate-advanced students; text available; each lesson = 20-30 minutes; 3 hours 45 minutes (total time).
It's Up To You (Dresner) (EN 1.008)
this recording, subtitled "Language Skills and Strategies for Getting a Job", guides the intermediate student in the conversations typical of the job-finding process: telephone contact, application procedures, personal introductions and interview topics; text available; 45.22 minutes (total time).
Listening In and Speaking Out (James/Whitney/Bode) (EN 1.018)
spontaneous conversations, arguments and jokes spoken at normal speed; intermediate and advanced levels available with text; many exercises to check comprehension; each intermediate unit = 3-4 minutes; 40 minutes (total time); each advanced unit = 2-3 minutes; 34 minutes (total time).
Listening in the Real World (Rost/Stratton) (EN 1.028)
very short but rapid conversations; good practice for the student who has difficulty understanding casual speech on the street; for beginning-intermediate students; 3 copies of text available; each lesson = 3-5 minutes; 2 hours 45 minutes (total time); dialogues = 1 hour 35 minutes.
Listening Tasks (Schecter) (EN 1.037)
public address announcements, telephone exchanges, dialogues, and other short recordings of people speaking naturally with normal pauses, hesitations and interruptions; practical topics include: calling about an apartment, catching a plane, handling an emergency; students listen to tape then perform simple tasks such as labeling a diagram or map and filling in a form or chart; for low-intermediate and intermediate students; student book and teacher's manual with answer key available; each unit = 2-3 minutes; 52 minutes (total time).
Mosaic I (Ferrer/Whalley) (EN 1.040)
designed for intermediate to high-intermediate students, this text teaches study skills and language functions while maintaining a strong focus on listening and speaking; active listening activities based on short but realistic academic lectures and sample conversations for comprehension practice; variety of natural speaking activities to reinforce use in context of language functions; cassette program contains the lectures and sample conversations for each of the chapters plus some explanatory comments; text and tapescript available; average lesson = 12-14 minutes; 2 hours 33 minutes (total time).
Mosaic II (Ferrer/Whalley) (EN 1.041)
designed for high-intermediate to low-advanced students; format of program same as Mosaic I; text and tapescript available; average lesson = 15-20 minutes; 3 hours (total time).
National Public Radio Broadcasts (EN 1.033)
six radio broadcasts made in the late 70's and in the early 80's on a variety of topics; for advanced students.
Titles:
Kurt Vonnegut: A Self-Interview – 29.40
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Prolonged Dream – 18.06
Modern Folklore – 30.04
Noam Chomsky – 30.22
Robert Frost – 28.38
The American Scene: Comments by Jean Shepherd – 30.40
Prose and Passion (Gabriel) (EN 1.020)
"a lyrical approach to the mastery of spoken English"; very lively presentations: songs, drama; good for intermediate-advanced students; text available; 29 minutes (total time).
Speak Business English Like an American (Gillett) (EN 1.055)
book and audio CD featuring over 350 of the most common American English business idioms and expressions, with accompanying exercises and answer key; includes conversations related to various business situations such as running a meeting, discussing business decisions, performance reviews, etc.; 48 minutes (total time).
Whaddya Say? (Weinstein) (EN 1.029)
gives practice in understanding informal, relaxed English within a variety of everyday dialogues: at the laundromat, at the bus stop, looking for an apartment; transcription exercises; for intermediate students; text available; each lesson = 6-9 minutes; 2 hours 55 minutes (total time).