The second edition of Developing Listening Skills expands with full color graphics, newly revised topically based listening passages, and enhanced listening activities. This series is suitable for both the classroom and self-study. Throughout the series, Developing Listening Skills progresses from easy to more challenging exercises in order to help facilitate listening comprehension. The exercises combine listening with reading, speaking, and writing tasks to reinforce retention of high-frequency vocabulary and phrases. Features Authentic dialogs Full-color illustrations and photographs to aid comprehensionSupplemental listening activities related to the topics Listening quizzes and unit exams to check learning progress Real world listening practice featuring interesting and useful topics Discussion questions to develop students' speaking and listening abilities Separate transcripts and answer key Extra dictation activities available online at compasspub.com/DLS2e Free MP3 Audio CD included - from Amzon