College English (Revised Edition) Listening - Book 2: CD-ROM Edition

Author: Yu Sumei Li Huiqin
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Based on the characteristics of listening teaching in College English and the English proficiency of the target learners, this textbook has been revised according to the following principles:
1. The revised edition still emphasizes the training of fundamental listening skills. The initial stage focuses on life-related topics, with gradually increasing difficulty, information volume, and diversity of themes, as well as improving the speed and complexity of answering questions.
2. The selected materials cover all entries in the functional-notional syllabus and the requirements for listening skills and some speaking skills specified in the micro-skill table.
3. While cultivating students' ability to understand basic linguistic units, the textbook gradually enhances their comprehension and proficiency at the discourse level, improving their analytical, summarizing, synthesizing, and inferential abilities regarding the content they hear.
4. To ensure the listening speeds meet the syllabus requirements at each level, the training speeds used in the textbook are slightly higher than the syllabus specifications, while the speeds for quizzes and review tests align with the syllabus.
5. The textbook includes a variety of exercise types, including new question formats from the National College English Tests (CET-4 and CET-6), aiming to comprehensively train and improve students' listening comprehension skills.
6. The revised edition adds an oral practice section, allowing students, under the guidance of their teachers, to conduct basic training in oral expression using the language and content provided in the textbook.
7. The textbook content strives to be fresh, lively, and engaging, retaining and adjusting effective passages while gradually incorporating content reflecting new information. The language is designed to be authentic, vivid, and standardized. This book is the second edition of the listening textbook student workbook. It consists of 20 lessons and is intended for students taking College English Level 2. Each unit covers a major listening skill and includes a quiz. After the 20 lessons, a review test is provided, which can be used as a mock exam for the Level 2 listening test.