English Interpreting Basic Ability Certificate (Level B) Exam: Basic Listening Course. Level B

Author: Luo Xinhuan
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: The "Basic Listening Course (B Level)" is compiled according to the requirements of the listening section of the "Shanghai English Interpreting Basic Ability Certificate (B Level) Examination Syllabus." Its purpose is to enable students to reach a basic level of listening proficiency for the English Interpreting Basic Ability Certificate examination through training. The course consists of 15 units and can be used for 15-16 weeks, with one session per week (3 class hours). It is important to emphasize the "Listening Translation" section in the exercises, which includes single-sentence translation and paragraph translation. Compared to other English listening tests in China, listening translation is a new type of question. Its purpose is to test students' listening comprehension, short-term memory, and translation skills, which often causes difficulties for most examinees. Teachers can appropriately slow down the teaching pace in this section, combine listening translation techniques, help students familiarize themselves with it, and gradually improve their listening translation abilities. To facilitate teaching and self-study, this course provides KEYS (reference answers) and TAPESCRIPTS (audio transcripts) after each exercise.