Samples  
 

My Real Lives, Real Listening books

This series is published by Collins. There are three levels: Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced.  Each book is divided into three sections: My Family, A Typical Day and A Place I Know Well. 

Samples

For more information, and to see and listen to excerpts from all three Real Lives, Real Listening  books, please click on the following link which will take you to the Collins website:

http://www.collinslanguage.com/collins-elt-learners-of-english/real-lives-real-listening

Meanwhile the German educational publisher Klett has produced three shorter versions of my Intermediate books for German learners of English.  To see samples of these please click on the following link:

http://www.klett-sprachen.de/sheila-thorn/p-1/1828

Writing project with Richard Cauldwell of Speech in Action

Several years ago, I joined forces with another listening enthusiast, my good friend Richard Cauldwell of Speech in Action. We wrote 10 sets of teacher and student listening materials to accompany authentic recordings of native and non-native English speakers.

The format is loosely based on the approach I developed for my Real Lives, Real Listening books, but with some extra unique features.

Samples

To see a sample Teacher's Book unit featuring a native English speaker, please click here.

To see a sample Student's Book unit featuring a native English speaker, please click here.

To listen to the recording, please click here.

To see a sample Teacher's Book unit featuring a non-native English speaker, please click here.

To see a sample Student's Book unit featuring a non-native English speaker, please click here.

To listen to the recording, please click here.

 

 

 
     
  Richard Cauldwell of SpeechInAction shares my enthusiasm for using recordings of authentic speech:
www.speechinaction.com
   
  Meanwhile my good friends
Mark Hancock and Annie McDonald specialise in training students to analyse short segments of authentic speech:

www.hancockmcdonald.com