New Century English Speaking Course (2)

Author: Li Huadong
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Each unit includes 6 major sections:
Warm-up: Provides brief cultural notes, explores cultural conflicts, and includes true/false questions and discussion topics to activate students' knowledge reserves, enhance cross-cultural communication awareness, and connect with real-life situations.
Listening: Offers dialogues related to the unit theme and subsequent functional sentence patterns, mostly accompanied by fill-in-the-blank exercises to train listening skills and improve mastery of functional sentence patterns.
Reading: Presents a main text centered around the unit theme to increase language input.
Functional Devices: Used for reviewing, expanding, and deepening the functional expressions introduced in the book.
Communication Activities: Includes high-flexibility, contextually authentic, and creative cross-cultural communication activities. Students can flexibly apply functional sentence patterns, integrate learned knowledge and language, and showcase creativity in language use to achieve communicative goals, thereby developing fluency.
Writing: Combines cross-cultural contexts, emphasizes the communicative purpose of writing, consolidates learned content, cultivates logical thinking skills, and enhances oral coherence.
Additionally, each unit selects some famous quotes (Words of Wisdom) to deepen understanding of the unit theme. Teachers can use them as needed, such as having students memorize them, incorporating them into communicative activities, or organizing discussions and debates.
Some units include English songs (A Song for the Theme), which not only liven up the atmosphere and boost language learning interest but also significantly improve pronunciation and intonation, especially the rhythm, assimilation, elision, and linking of intonation. The song lyrics are related to the unit theme and include fill-in-the-blank exercises to train listening skills and deepen understanding of the theme.
This textbook can be used as a required or elective oral English course material or for self-study.
Target Audience:
University students (including English majors, foreign trade majors) in undergraduate and junior/senior college programs;
Master's and doctoral students;
Students preparing for the College English Oral Test;
English oral training participants for overseas study;
Various social English oral training participants;
Self-learners of English oral communication, etc.