<P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <I> <B> <I>Listening Power</I> </B> </I> is a three-book series with a targeted approach to teaching the listening skills that students need inside and outside the classroom and on standardized tests such as the TOEFL and TOEIC.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <I> <B> <I>Listening Power 3</I> </B> </I> features four distinct parts designed to be used concurrently.</P> <UL> <LI> <B>Language Focus</B> teaches essential and sometimes difficult advanced-level skills such as reduced forms, patterns of intonation, and idiomatic expressions. <LI> <B>Comprehension Focus</B> presents skills for understanding main ideas, supporting ideas, and details; making inferences, distinguishing facts and opinions; and recognizing organizational patterns. Activities to help students apply the skills follow the presentation. <LI> <B>Note-Taking Skills </B>teaches students how to identify important words and information. This section also presents helpful techniques such as use of abbreviations, symbols, and formatting. <LI> <B>Listening for Pleasure</B> uses interesting audio material from movies, TV, radio, and recorded storytelling to help students understand the more subtle meaning communicated through tone of voice, sentence stress, and reduced forms.</LI> </UL>