The first book of a three part series for high school and college-age students of English. English as it's actually spoken. Top-Up gives students practice in drawing meaning from naturally spoken English in two ways: using thier knowledge of the world and of the language to guess what's coming next, and using their knowledge of how English is actually structured as a sound. Whaddaweemean? - how words run together, how sounds are lost, how vowels naturally weaken and entire words are dropped. Without knowledge of such patterns, listening is impossible. Lots of practice! Lots of variety!