New Century English Speaking Course 2

Author: Li Huadong et al. (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: Each unit includes 6 major sections:
Warm-up: Provides brief cultural notes and explores cultural conflicts, accompanied by 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 equipped with 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 highly flexible, contextually authentic, and creativity-stimulating cross-cultural communication activities. Students can flexibly apply functional sentence patterns, integrate learned knowledge and language, and unleash creativity in language use to achieve communicative goals, thereby cultivating fluency.
Writing: Combines cross-cultural contexts, emphasizes the communicative purpose of writing, consolidates learned content, develops logical thinking skills, and enhances oral coherence.
Additionally, each unit selects some 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 an English Song for the Theme, which not only energizes the atmosphere and boosts language learning interest but also significantly improves pronunciation and intonation, especially the rhythm, assimilation, elision, and linking of speech. The song content is related to the unit theme and includes fill-in-the-blank exercises to train listening skills and reinforce understanding of the theme.
This textbook can be used as a required or elective oral communication course material for speaking classrooms or for self-study.
Target Audience:
- Undergraduate students (including English majors, foreign trade majors) at secondary vocational and technical schools
- 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 and self-studying English speakers