A selection of 36 listening texts for intermediate students taken from a variety of sources including discussions, interviews, songs, radio broadcasts and telephone conversations on a whole range of subjects which get progressively more difficult as students work through the book. The second part of the book contains 10 sample listening papers for the Mittelstufe exams which are equally suitable for any student requiring pratica at this level. The teachers book contains the students book, answer key and transcriptions of the listening material with the passages relevant to the answers clearly marked.