New Edition College English Listening and Speaking Course (Student Book 3) (Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press)

Author: Yu Sumei, Li Huiqin (editors)
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Publish Date: 2003-01-28
Features: The College Listening and Speaking Course consists of six volumes, each accompanied by a teacher's book and corresponding audio cassettes. This is the third volume, containing sixteen units, each divided into four parts.
Preparation Activities: These activities revolve around the lesson topics, encouraging students to speak and warm them up for the following listening and speaking exercises.
Listening and Speaking Practice: This section includes two listening materials and two speaking activities, designed to develop students' listening and speaking skills. It contains two exercises:
1. Listening Tasks: These tasks aim to cultivate students' ability to comprehend the overall message and extract specific information, enabling them to grasp the main ideas of the text and the author's emotions.
2. Speaking Tasks: These tasks focus on developing students' coherent expression skills, requiring them to share their thoughts and feelings about the text. Students are guided to discuss topics based on provided sample short essays, which may be humorous or critical.
Part C Additional Listening: Listening exercises at the end of the lesson include dialogues, short passages, or dictation practice related to the theme. Some lessons also include mini-dialogues similar to those found in the CET-4 and CET-6 exams.
Extra-Class Listening: Provides one extra-class listening exercise or a compound dictation material.
To enhance the course's appeal, odd-numbered lessons include elements such as songs, proverbs, humor, or quotes from famous figures.
Additionally, the book includes two sets of comprehensive tests at the end to assess students' listening proficiency.
[Editor's Recommendation] To meet the new demands of college English teaching in society, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press proudly presents the "College English" series—a comprehensive, multi-dimensional textbook program featuring textbooks, audio cassettes, multimedia CDs, online systems, and a question bank.
A Collective Effort: The entire series is co-authored by experienced professors and English teaching experts from renowned institutions such as Fudan University, Peking University, East China Normal University, University of Science and Technology of China, South China University of Technology, Nanjing University, Wuhan University, Nankai University, Renmin University of China, and Sun Yat-sen University.
Comprehensive and Reasonable Curriculum Design: The series consists of four types of textbooks—Comprehensive, Listening and Speaking, Reading, and Fast Reading—as well as a grammar manual. A preparatory textbook is also available for students with lower starting levels. Each textbook is interconnected, forming an organic whole.
Balancing Language Skills and Comprehensive Application: Centered around the Comprehensive Textbook, each unit explores a contemporary life-related theme, supplemented by the Listening and Speaking, Reading, and Fast Reading textbooks. These resources guide students to deeply and comprehensively acquire and master language and cultural knowledge related to each theme, while also providing ample material for practical language application training on the topic.
A Dual-Win Strategy of Quality Development and Successful Exam Preparation: Each textbook includes exercises similar to those found in the CET-4 and CET-6 exams.