Talk It Up！ Listening and Speaking is the first level of a complete three-level oral communication series designed for intermediate to advanced students. This text is designed for the lowintermediate student.Talk It Up！ focuses on developing the students ability to communicate fluently and accurately by integrating listening and speaking practice through a variety of distinctive features.FEATURES AND BENEFITS，Book Design Chapter design has been streamlined to accommodate classroom use. Contextualized practice in listening and speaking helps students match skills and strategies to actual speech situations.
Charts, illustrations, and diagrams of speech organs and speech sounds appeal to a variety of learning styles while helping students develop their pronunciation.Listening Exercises
Listening exercises provide a wide taxonomy of skills and strategies students need.
Listening passages feature natural-sounding speech, appropriate speech styles, and a variety of accents to promote listening skills development.
Learning Styles and Strategies
Talking Points and Class Projects encourage students to employ learned strategies.
Relevant topics such as how to handle an emergency, understanding the credit system, and learning a language motivate students.
Self-evaluation charts and speaking-activity evaluation forms help students set and track heir own progress.
目录
Unit 1 Friends
Part Ⅰ Brainstorming,
Part Ⅱ Thats What Friends Are For
Part Ⅲ Excuses, Excuses!
Part Ⅳ Cyberfriends
Web Activities
Tongue Twisters,
Unit 2 Feeling at Home
Part Ⅰ Brainstorming,
Part Ⅱ A Good Apartment Is Hard to Find
Part Ⅲ Getting Things Fixed
Part Ⅳ What a Neighborhood!
Web Activities
Tongue Twisters
Unit 3 Making Connections
Part Ⅰ Brainstorming
Part Ⅱ E-Mail Connections
Part Ⅲ Send a Card to Stay in Touch
Part Ⅳ Not Another Answering Machine!
Web Activities
Tongue Twisters
Unit 4 The World of Work
Part Ⅰ Brainstorming
Part Ⅱ Getting the Job
Part Ⅲ Breaking the Ice
Part Ⅳ Workplace Challenges
Web Activities
Tongue Twisters
Unit 5 School Choices/Life Opportunities
Part Ⅰ Brainstorming
Part Ⅱ Asking for Advice
Part Ⅲ Learning a Language
Part Ⅳ Being Bilingual——What an Advantage!
Web Aetivities
Tongue Twisters
Unit 6 Money Matters
Part Ⅰ Brainstorming
Part Ⅱ Credit Card or Debit Card? You Decide!
Part Ⅲ Banking by Phone
Part Ⅳ The Trouble with Credit Cards
Web Activities
Tongue Twisters
Unit 7 Help!
Part Ⅰ Brainstorming
Part Ⅱ An Emergency!
Part Ⅲ The Missing Wallet
Part Ⅳ Bike Trip Cheek List
Web Activities
Tongue Twisters
Unit 8 Consumer Choices
Part Ⅰ Brainstorming
Part Ⅱ Checking Out
Part Ⅲ Computer Shopping
Part Ⅳ Consumer Watch
Web Activities
Tongue Twisters
Answer Key
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