College English Listening, Speaking and Viewing Course (1) Teacher's Book

Author: Liu Hongzhong
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: College English: Viewing, Listening, and Speaking is designed for non-English majors in universities, based on the New College English Curriculum Requirements formulated and issued by the Ministry of Education of China and the National Advisory Committee on Foreign Language Teaching in Higher Education. The main goal is to cultivate students' English listening and speaking abilities while enhancing their autonomous learning skills and improving their comprehensive cultural literacy. The key focus of this textbook's compilation is to emphasize the organic integration of each section within a unit, with the unit content structured as a vivid classroom example, where various language materials in the same unit are primarily centered around the same theme. It pays attention to the characteristics of oral English, emphasizing authentic and natural language usage. It introduces English idioms, with all language materials provided by foreign experts from the Education Services Exchange with China. It ensures a certain amount of imitation exercises and dictation exercises to lay a solid language foundation for rapidly improving listening skills, and gradually enhances listening and speaking abilities. It focuses on cultivating oral expression skills, using speaking to enhance listening. At the same time, it emphasizes the interaction between listening and speaking. It explains cultural customs, fostering comprehensive cultural literacy and cross-cultural communication skills. The exercise formats are diverse, prioritizing practical needs in communication, with a focus on subjective question types. Listening materials use normal speaking speed recordings, with difficulty levels determined by the subject matter, the vocabulary involved, and the complexity of sentence structures. It emphasizes the cultivation of confidence and learning methods.