Listening 1 develops students' ability to understand real-life spoken English through recordings of spontaneous, natural speech, which have been carefully selected and edited for pre-intermediate learners. The activities are designed to encourage students to draw on their own natural listening strategies and to apply them effectively in the context of language learning.

Cambridge Skills for Fluency is a learner-centred range of materials designed specifically to develop students' fluency and confidence in listening, speaking, reading and writing. They are at four levels from pre-intermediate through to advanced and are suitable for use as supplementary texts or as core texts on skills development courses. Each part in the Cambridge Skills for Fluency series:
 promotes fluency by presenting a wide variety of both old and new topics in creative and imaginative ways
 genuinely engages students' interest and encourages them to share personal reactions and opinions fluently
 focuses on a particular skill but the other skills are integrated in a way that reflects real life use of language
 contains twenty units designed to take about an hour of class time, a detailed contents map and brief teaching notes.