Jinjin Longman Junior High School English Listening. 2: (Suitable for Grade 8 (Second Year of Junior High School)) (2 tapes)

Author: (Chinese) Feng Jingzhao, Wang Xiaolin
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: The book's features include:
1. Novel and life-related topics, featuring elements such as shopping and parties that students are interested in. This allows students to practice listening while learning about foreign cultures and enhancing their cultural awareness.
2. Diverse listening formats with clear difficulty gradients, progressing from word discrimination to sentence comprehension, dialogues to short passages, enabling students to continuously improve and gain a sense of achievement.
3. The entire book uses spoken vocabulary and authentic materials with natural and authentic pronunciation, pacing, and adherence to the reliability and validity requirements of English listening tests.
4. The book is rich in content, with supplementary vocabulary and sentence patterns related to each unit theme serving as "preheating" and "hinting" tools for listening practice. The "Tips" are also thoughtful, detailed, and as encouraging as a patient teacher. Additionally, the listening exercises avoid the "absolute silence" environment of traditional training, incorporating appropriate sound effects in each dialogue to create a "realistic environment," increasing listening relevance and engagement, helping students "reach a higher level" to adapt to such authentic contexts.