(All-New Edition) College English Listening and Speaking Teacher's Book 2

Author: Yu Sumei, Li Huiqin (editors)
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: The University Listening and Speaking Course consists of six volumes, each accompanied by a teacher's book and corresponding audio tapes. This book is the second volume, containing sixteen units, each divided into four parts.
Listening Skills Training: This section aims to cultivate students' mastery of essential listening skills, helping them understand the text as a whole and obtain key information.
Listening and Speaking Training: This section includes a listening material focused on discourse training, designed to enhance students' listening and speaking abilities. It contains three exercises:
1. Revolving around the topic of the text, it encourages students to speak and prepares them for the next listening and speaking practice.
2. It develops students' ability to grasp the overall meaning and extract specific information, enabling them to correctly understand the main ideas of the text and the author's emotions.
3. It emphasizes cultivating students' oral communication skills by providing language materials for communicative functions such as Expressing Hope, Giving Compliments, Expressing Possibility and Certainty, and Expressing Surprise, along with two to three sample dialogues closely tied to the text's theme and communicative function. Students are required to engage in oral activities based on the provided scenarios and reference dialogues.
Part C: Additional Listening – At the end of each unit, there are dialogues or short passages related to the theme, along with exercises.
Part D: Home Listening – Provides extra listening materials for practice outside the classroom. On even-numbered lessons, an additional material related to the overall course theme is included. To enhance the course's (interest), on odd-numbered lessons, Leisure Time () is added, featuring songs, humor, or famous quotes.
At the end of the book, there are two sets of comprehensive tests to assess students' listening proficiency.
The teacher's book, in addition to providing the original text and exercise answers, also includes:
1. The purpose of each exercise.
2. Teaching procedures (for reference).
3. Notes on language and cultural background.