403C(T)/(S)
新聞聽說讀
Media Chinese
#Intermediate 中級
An elementary news class with an objective to improve the student's listening and reading comprehension of news stories while strengthening their ability to hold discussions on relevant topics. The textbook and accompanying recordings cover such major topics as weather, environment, politics, economics, religion, computers, medicine, archaeology, etc., with each unit divided into two parts, intermediate / broadcast listening comprehension and news reading: Intermediate listening comprehension borrows vocabulary and sentence patterns from Talks on Chinese Culture (TOCC), Taiwan Today, and other textbooks to help guide the discussion topics; the broadcast listening comprehension section paraphrases the same events from the readings comprehension section in the form of a real broadcast. This class works well as an elective for students concurrently taking TOCC.