News Listening Made Easy (Book + MP3)

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 bypass distracting elements and grasp the main structure of sentences to understand the articles. This approach enables listeners to grasp the content of the entire article even if they don’t fully understand it, allowing them to answer questions quickly and accurately, thereby effectively improving their 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 for the College English Test Band 4/6 and the English Majors' Level 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 apply these skills, their listening comprehension abilities 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 pronunciation style (either British or American), this book’s audio recordings on the CD cover both British and American accents to help listeners become familiar with both while practicing daily, reducing listening barriers during exams.
This book can serve as a tool for daily skill improvement for various English learners with intermediate or above proficiency, or as a means to assess before exams.