《高级商务英语听说》课是一门将英语听说技能与商务知识相结合的商务英语选修课程。授课对象为经贸大学二、三年级本科学生。课程在多媒体教室进行，授课语言为英语，共分18单元。教学目的是提升学生在综合商务环境下应用语言的能力即商务表达能力。教学流程和方法为：收听和观看与本课题目相关的新闻、报道、采访和专题报道；随堂做各种类型的听力测试题；通过阅读和讨论某商务话题，熟悉并掌握商务英语专业词汇；通过参与课堂的讨论、展示、对话等活动学习用英语表达自己。教学模式是任务与策略相结合，通过听和说与经贸金融知识和其它商业相关的内容，让学生在教师的指导下进行商务语言情景下的听说语言操练，使英语听说能力和商贸专业知识有机地结合起来。本课程的具体目标是：

　　1、巩固学生现有的英语听说能力。

　　2、用英语表达有关经贸、金融理论与实务的基础知识。

　　3、根据高级商务英语听说课的内容和特点，培养并提高他们获取国际经贸金融信息的能力。

　　4、扩大和深化其语言交际能力和和理论联系实际的思维表达能力。

　　本课程的先修课程：大学英语 英语口语

Course Description

　　Advanced Listening and Speaking in Business English is a selective language course open for the 2nd and 3rd year undergraduates. Conducted in multimedia classroom and taught in English, it combines English language skill training with business knowledge of various fields. The course covers 18 units of business related topics and focuses on helping students improve their overall listening and speaking proficiency. Students should go through a series of training procedures on the following aspects： Listening to business news and news reports, special coverage and interviews; doing comprehension exercises in class related to their listening materials; getting familiar with the relevant business terminology and learning to express their ideas accurately and smoothly with those expressions and finally participating in class activities (conversation, interpretation, presentation, team discussion, etc.). The objectives of the teaching are:

　　1) To upgrade and reinforce students’ listening and speaking proficiency.

　　2) To refresh some basic knowledge on international trade, economics, finance and management.

　　3) To enhance their ability to acquire information of the latest development of business and learn to make quality analysis and comments on the current affairs orally.

　　4) To empower students to combine the language skills with business knowledge.