English Corner (Includes Disc)

Author: Wang Shaoru
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Authentic native American pronunciation, effectively improves English listening and speaking skills, comes with a large-capacity MP3, gets 5CD content for the price of 1CD, suitable for middle school students, university students, and adult readers who rarely use English. Accompanied by extracurricular reading, exam preparation, and overseas use. This book introduces the fashionable culture, arts, and social customs favored by the younger generation in the United States through on-site interviews in street coffee shops. The content is exciting, the dialogues are vivid, and it is highly engaging—perfect for college students and intermediate English learners to listen and read. VOA's English teaching programs, with their popular American language, authentic American pronunciation, and rich teaching content, have a significant impact on a broad audience of Chinese English learners, especially young students. They have become an effective way for people to learn American English, practice listening and speaking, and have been included as an important component of the current College English Listening Tests (Level 4-6). This series of books, selected from recently broadcasted VOA programs, paired with MP3 original sound recordings by experienced VOA news anchors, will serve as a stepping stone for middle school students, university students, College English Test (Level 4-6) takers, and adult readers who rarely use English to quickly improve their listening, speaking, and reading skills.
"American Coffee House" is a new VOA basic language teaching program that began broadcasting in 2004. Through the on-site interviews of two hosts in a coffee shop, it introduces the cultural arts and social customs favored by the younger generation in the United States. The content is exciting, the dialogues are vivid, and it allows readers to learn American English while understanding American fashion culture. Due to the limited current episodes of "American Coffee House," this book also includes selected content from "Popular American English." This is also a recent VOA English teaching program that uses dialogues between American university students and Chinese students to explain the slang commonly used by young Americans in various campus scenarios. It is humorous, relaxed, and practical. It can be said that "American Coffee House" and "Popular American English" are the most outstanding among VOA's English programs to date and are perfectly suited for university students and a broad audience with intermediate English proficiency.