Experience Business English Listening and Speaking Teacher's Book: 1 (with CD-ROM)

Author: (UK) Evans (Evans, D.), (UK) Strutt (Strutt, P.), adapted by the adaptation group of "Experience with Business English"
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Publishing Date: 2008-01-01
Features: The "Experience with Business English" series is a new generation of comprehensive business English teaching materials with a global perspective and distinctive contemporary characteristics. The main features of the "Listening and Speaking Course" are as follows: It introduces the real content of international business activities into classroom teaching, allowing students to experience the real business world. "Listening and Speaking Course" is a genuine, business-oriented English course specifically designed for learners in non-English-speaking countries. The listening materials are rich in content, diverse in selection, and sourced not only from business books, newspapers, and magazines but also from novels and films. Its purpose is to enable learners to have as much exposure as possible to and learn the authentic "business" English spoken by professionals in the business world. This series of teaching materials fully integrates real business activities with English teaching, allowing students to understand the current state of modern international business while mastering language skills, thereby achieving the goal of learning language and improving business communication skills through experiencing business. Role-playing and case studies take experiential learning to a deeper level. The basic teaching philosophy of "Listening and Speaking Course" is: Foreign language learning is more meaningful and effective only in real communication contexts. Based on this philosophy, this series of teaching materials provides students with natural, practical, and vivid business language, with each unit incorporating communicative tasks such as role-playing and case studies. Each communicative task is based on real business communication scenarios, providing students with various opportunities to express their thoughts and opinions using the language they have learned, thereby internalizing the English they have learned and truly applying it. The teaching design is rigorous, laying a solid foundation for experiential learning. The unit design of "Listening and Speaking Course" focuses on language and business skills, integrating "listening," "speaking," "practice," and vocabulary learning. "Listening" – provides authentic materials. "Speaking" – in case studies, it uses real business communication scenarios to give students a genuine experience, laying the foundation for developing communication skills. "Practice" – The textbook provides a large number of situational dialogues, and role-playing exercises offer students opportunities for communication practice, offering a fresh perspective. Vocabulary learning is combined with reading to prepare for listening and speaking practice. The teaching resources are rich, providing strong support for experiential teaching. "Listening and Speaking Course" is accompanied by a "Teacher's Book," which provides detailed background introductions, recommended reading lists, supplementary activities, and grammar review exercises for teaching selection and use. This course also has audio cassettes. "Listening and Speaking Course" realistically reproduces modern business activity scenarios with its international content and specialized knowledge, making it highly practical, comprehensive in scope, rich in topics, and illustrated, making it suitable for students' learning and application. It can help students enrich their business English knowledge, accumulate language materials, develop a good sense of language, and train correct thinking patterns. This book has a wide selection range and strong operability. It is suitable for business English teaching in international trade and economics, international finance, and other foreign-related majors, as well as for business English teaching in English majors, university English elective courses, and industry training materials.