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I teach from the same book that you do. Usually, each chapter is four lessons for me: Topic 1, Topic 2, Listening, and Writing. Is there a specific reason they want you to teach those three sections over a period of 6 classes? For the listening, I have enough trouble making it interesting and beneficial enough for one class~!
I haven't looked in the activities book that accompanies the student book because my co-teacher said it was too difficult for the students, but maybe checking out that book would give some ideas for other classes. I would also ask your co-teacher how the previous English teacher allotted time for each section.
The other thing I would suggest is to do project work. Once you have finished your three sections, give them a group project that will take more than one class to complete and present. For example, the listening section of the sports chapter (2?) talks about sports broadcasting. Maybe you could have them create their own news broadcast about different sports and present it to the class? I'm not sure what level your students are or how involved your co-teachers are, which would both affect the outcome of doing something like that.
I wish I could be more help~! Maybe my suggestions will help you think of something better:)

i would guess 3 classes for one topic and the 3 classes for the next topic? they asked me to do something similar..

so what i decided to do was use one topic and teach it for one lesson and include lots of videos (i love using videos because it quiets the students down and it also gives opportunity to ask questions) and PPT slides to help the students understand the topic.  Then give out a handout (word search is usually the safest thing to go for which takes up time) which the students need to finish.

the second lesson i would review the previous lesson and ask if the students remembered (sometimes a guessing game type of practice is useful if the students actually participate).  then i would have a bomb game. even high schoolers love that bomb game!

the third lesson i would not know what to do.. maybe a 'golden bell' type lesson to see which student knows the most about this topic? and that one student gets an ultimate prize of a choco bar? or some kind of snack??

i only have to do two lessons per topic so i go with the review/teaching then the game next period... having a game the next class helps (sometimes) motivate the students to pay attention the first class...



hope this helped you out, in some way!! these are just my suggestions...

I feel your pain.  I have a different textbook, but it's entirely/only listening scripts and conversations.  I do two things with that.  I either take the topic that the people in one of the conversations are talking about and spin that into a lesson, or I try to take the key phrases from the listening scripts and try to think of another scenario that uses them.

Like this week my key phrases were "I'm here to" and "I'm just about to."  So, they had a post office role play event, and the students acted out clerks and customers.  "I'm here to mail a letter to my British friend." "Oh, I'm just about to close the post office, but I can help you first."  Etc. etc.

The problem is, this takes a lot more lesson planning hours than a standard "make it yourself/borrow from Waygook.org" lesson.  I pretty much am making all the lessons from scratch, so I'm trying to think smarter and see if I can make connections between my book stuff and some of the well-designed lessons we can come across here on the website.

Best of luck to you!