New Horizons English Reading and Writing Course (4) (Higher Vocational and Specialized College Edition)

Author: Zheng Shutang Zhou Guoqiang
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Publish Date: 2009-08-16
Features: New Horizon English Course: Listening and Speaking is one of the core textbooks of the New Horizon English Course, divided into four levels, with each level containing 10 units, suitable for one semester of use. New Horizon English Course: Listening and Speaking Level 4 is divided into five parts: Part 1 is Poetry Appreciation. This section aims to further consolidate the phonetic training conducted in Levels 1 and 2, while allowing students to appreciate richly meaningful famous poems. Part 2 is Listening Training. The content is related to the themes of the corresponding units in the Reading and Writing Course. Considering the current differences in students' English proficiency upon enrollment, teaching and testing are divided into Levels A and B. Listening and Speaking arranges its content in a progressive and gradual manner. Listening training for Levels 3 and 4, in addition to the vocational and technical college Level B exam format, primarily focuses on the vocational and technical college Level A exam format. Building on the forms of listening to short dialogues and filling in blanks with short passages in Levels 1 and 2, Levels 3 and 4 have added the form of listening to short passages and answering questions, as well as supplementary forms of listening to short passages and selecting answers that are not included in the vocational and technical college Level B and Level A exams. Part 3 is Speaking Training. This section focuses on communicative function training as specified in the Basic Requirements for English Course Teaching in Vocational and Technical College Education (Trial). Levels 3 and 4 primarily focus on foreign-related business activities. First, they provide some basic communicative expressions and two sample dialogues in the form of short dialogues for students to imitate and learn. Then, they offer various types of dialogue exercises with increasing difficulty, facilitating the transition from simple dialogue exercises to students independently engaging in dialogue. This section is based on listening and gradually moves into speaking, aiming to improve oral expression skills. Part 4 is Listening and Speaking Training. This section combines listening and speaking, emphasizing training through group or class activities to develop students' comprehensive abilities. Part 5 consists of short passages related to Western culture, accompanied by discussion questions, with the purpose of cultivating students' cultural awareness.