News Listening Made Easy (CD-ROM)

Author: Liu Chunwei
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The main text of this book is divided into eight chapters based on categories such as economy, politics, diplomacy, military, education, entertainment, sports, and daily life. Each article in every chapter is followed by annotations. Unlike other listening books, the annotations in this book not only explain the linguistic meaning but also emphasize sentence structure, language features, listening techniques, and background knowledge. They guide listeners to overcome interference and grasp the main structure of sentences to understand the articles, achieving the goal of comprehending the entire content without fully understanding it and quickly and accurately answering the questions related to the articles, thereby effectively improving listening scores. This book can serve as supplementary teaching material for learners with intermediate or above English proficiency to improve their listening skills daily, or as a reference book for the College English Test Band 4/6 and the Test for English Majors Band 4 listening exams.
According to the most frequently appearing content in news listening, this book is divided into an introduction, main text, and appendices. The introduction section summarizes important techniques for news listening comprehension. If listeners flexibly apply these techniques while practicing the content of each subsequent chapter and continuously practice these skills, their listening comprehension ability will undoubtedly be greatly improved.
The main text of the book is divided into chapters on economy, politics, diplomacy, military, education, entertainment, sports, and daily life. Each article in every chapter is followed by annotations. Since most English learners are accustomed to only one of the pronunciation styles of British English or American English, to overcome the limitation of listeners being familiar with only American English or only British English, the audio recordings on the accompanying CD of this book include both British and American English, enabling listeners to become familiar with both pronunciation styles through daily practice and reducing listening barriers during exams. This book can serve as a tool for daily skill improvement for various English learners with intermediate or above English proficiency, or as a means for assessing exam readiness before tests.