Language is about communication， and a great deal of communication in the world of work is oral. Yet SpeaHng is one of the least prestigious and least developed of the English language skills Chinese students seek to attain at school and university. This has much to do with the great di伍culties of examining Speaking.However， if students are to be equipped for the world beyond the conventional examinations which they need to pass in order to graduate， they need to develop the confidence to speak. This book attempts to help them to do so.
The kind of speaking I envisage is not "reciting". There is a great deal of reciting that goes on in our education system. It has its merits， but reciting is not the same as engaging in a conversation. In the world of work we are necessarily interactive. We need to shape what we say in response to what others say to us. This cannot be learned by heart， for it will vary from one occasion to another. That is why the questions that follow each Unit in this book are so geared to promoting discussion and debate. Most of them have no "correct" answers. There are many possible avenues that can be explored and many different ways oflooHng at the same subject. Students need to open themselves up to challenge this poses.
《大学体验英语口语教程》在线资源是配套教材的补充。本教程根据培生教育的优秀英语口语教材Impact Issues(New Edition)改编，话题具有强烈的时代性，引导学生循序渐进，从理解材料、鉴别观点开始，再到拓展话题、交流看法、流畅表达，全面发展学生的思维能力 和语言运用能力。
