New Horizons in English Listening for Middle School Students. 3

Author: Wallace et al.
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: New Horizons in English Listening for Middle School Students primarily focuses on improving students' listening skills. In this series, learners will encounter a wide range of listening materials from everyday life scenarios, including radio summaries, phone messages, and real-life dialogues. Each book in the series contains four main parts: listening exercises, pronunciation explanations, listening scripts, and reference answers.
The listening exercises section is organized as follows:
Pre-listening Preparation: This is part of every lesson. It introduces the target language, vocabulary preview, and the language functions and structures to be learned.
Listening Exercises: This is the second part of each lesson, including Exercise A and Exercise B. These exercises enhance learners' ability to recognize language functions and the structures that form them. Before asking students to infer more specific information, there will be a test to assess their understanding of the main idea of the lesson.
Supplementary Exercises: This is the last part of each lesson. Learners can flexibly apply the key language learned in the lesson together. Additionally, the listening exercises in the two review lessons aim to reinforce the functions and grammatical structures learned from the first eight lessons.
The pronunciation explanations section can be used by learners as needed. Each lesson is structured into three parts: Presentation, Recognition, and Practice.
- Presentation introduces pronunciation techniques.
- Recognition uses numerous exercises to reinforce the learned techniques.
- Practice focuses on practical application.
Learning pronunciation not only helps readers achieve correct pronunciation but also effectively improves their listening skills.