Provides much-needed practice for the student in comprehension and interpretation. Students need to listen carefully for specific information by recognizing numbers and letters, directions and times, and by listening to weather reports, news items and public announcements, etc. Special exercises encourage students to give their own interpretation of events by listening for intonation in expression of such things as anger, approval, boredom and happiness. An enjoyable story of a young foreign man staying with an English family provides listening material for important everyday situations.