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Summary
Summary
Tuning In offers intermediate students a unique opportunity to explore different listening genres from a variety of real-world sources. Authentic listening selections - including commercials, folk songs, oral histories, and call-in radio shows which provide a rich context for developing language skills. Features Engaging listening segments allow students to explore timeless themes such as love, volunteering, and childhood memories. Pre-listening activities help focus students on the theme and vocabulary, while post-listening exercises provide practice with language functions, pronunciation, grammar, and critical thinking. Listening for Inference activities encourage students to infer the speaker's meaning, listen for attitudes and feelings through the tone of voice, and interpret context. Unit wrap-up activities allow students to compare and contrast the three listening selections, analyze the linguistic components of each genre, and create a text of their own.
Table of Contents
1 Selling a Dream |
Genre: Radio ADS Grammar |
-ing/-ed Adjectives Function |
Expressing Doubt Pronunciation |
Plurals and Past Tense Endings |
2 Pets |
Genre: Call-in Radio Shows Grammar |
Compound Adjectives Function |
Asking for Advice/Information Pronunciation |
Compound Nouns |
3 Boyhood Memories |
Genre: Monologues Grammar |
Would for Repeated Action in the Past Function |
Interrupting Pronunciation |
Thought Groups |
4 Safety |
Genre: Government Messages Grammar |
Imperative Voice Function |
Emphasizing a Point Pronunciation |
Can and Can't |
5 Love |
Genre: Songs Grammar |
Double Comparatives Function |
Acknowledging another Person's Point of View Pronunciation /ay/ /iy/ /I/ |
6 Volunteering |
Genre: Public Service Announcements Grammar |
Modals of Obligation Function |
Persuading Pronunciation |
Listing Intonation |
7 Life Lessons |
Genre: Storytelling Grammar |
Past Perfect Tense Function |
Time Order Pronunciation |
Diphthongs |
8 Cooking Tips |
Genre: Interviews Grammar |
Real (Factual) Conditional Function |
Giving Step-by-Step Instructions Pronunciation |
Reduced Words |
9 Women and War |
Genre: Oral Histories Grammar |
Direct or Quoted Speech Function |
Involving Your Listener |