New Edition College English Listening and Speaking Course (3) Student Book (with CD-ROM)

Author: Yu Sumei
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Publishing Date: 2003-12-01
Features: To meet the new requirements of college English teaching in the new era, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press proudly presents the "College English" series of integrated teaching materials—comprising textbooks, audio cassettes, multimedia CDs, online systems, and a question bank, all fully equipped.
Authoritative and Strong Writing Team: 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. Additionally, a preparatory-level textbook is available for students with lower starting levels. Each textbook is interconnected, forming an organic whole.
Comprehensive Development of Applied Language Skills: Each unit revolves around a theme reflecting contemporary life, while integrating language knowledge, practical skills, learning strategies, and cross-cultural communication. This approach guides students to deeply acquire and master language and cultural knowledge related to each theme, along with abundant authentic materials, and thoroughly trains their comprehensive language application skills, especially listening and speaking abilities.
Innovative and Comprehensive Integrated Support System: The series is supported by audio cassettes, multimedia teaching CDs, a question bank, and the "New Concept College English Online Teaching System." This "System" was initiated by the Ministry of Education, meticulously designed and developed in accordance with the "College English Teaching Requirements," and unanimously approved by expert groups from the Ministry of Education. The entire system is fully integrated, helping teachers create new classroom teaching models and providing students with autonomous and interactive learning environments to meet the needs of diversified, networked, and personalized English teaching.
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: Centered around the text topic, these activities encourage 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 cultivate students' listening and speaking skills. It contains two exercises:
1. Listening Tasks: These tasks train students to understand the main ideas and extract specific information, enabling them to grasp the core message of the text and the author's emotions.
2. Speaking Tasks: These tasks focus on developing students' coherent expression skills, requiring them to respond to the ideas and reflections presented in the text. Students are guided to discuss the set topic, referencing interesting and contrasting sample short essays.
Part C Additional Listening: End-of-unit listening materials include dialogues, short passages, or dictation exercises related to the theme. Some texts also include listening exercises similar to those of the CET-4 and CET-6 exams.
Extra-Class Listening: Provides one extra-class listening exercise or a compound dictation material.
To enhance the fun of the course, odd-numbered units include songs, proverbs, humor, or quotes from famous figures.
Additionally, two sets of comprehensive tests are provided at the end of the book to assess students' listening proficiency.