《大学英语听说(学生用书4 第3版)》共十六个单元,设八个话题。十六个单元后提供两套综合试题。
《大学英语听说(学生用书4 第3版)》书末附录提供课文听力训练的音带原文及练习答案。每单元设A、B、C、D四个部分:PartA“微技能训练”,这部分提供两个练习,旨在帮助学生获取重要的交际能力和掌握多种听力技能。PartB“语篇训练”,这部分提供两篇听力材料。PartC“口语训练”,这部分的口语活动**是培养学生的连贯表达能力。PartD“课外听力训练”,这部分提供两篇与课文同一话题的听力材料及练习,供学生课外自学。

UNIT 1 Announcement
PART A Micro-listening Understanding Airport and Railway Station Announcements
PART B Macro-listening
Announcement 1 We Wish You a Pleasant Flight
Announcement 2 Here Is Your Weekend Guide
PART C Oral Practice 1.Communicative Function: Making Announcements
2.Retelling
3.Discussion
PART D Home Listening
Announcement 1 Have a Pleasant Trip
Announcement 2 Can I Have Your Attention,Please?

UNIT 2 Celebrities
PART A Micro-listening Listening for Important Details
PART B Macro-listening
Conversation 1 The Person I Admire Most
Conversation 2 Interview with a Celebrity
PART C Oral Practice 1.Pair Work
2.Retelling
3.Discussion
PART D Home Listening
A Passage Celine Dion
A Compound Dictation

UNIT 3 Advertising
PART A Micro-listening Listening for Key Words
PART B Macro-listening
A Passage Successful Advertising
A Conversation We Were Born to Help You Do It Better
PART C Oral Practice 1.Communicative Function: Talking About the Pros and Cons of Advertising
2.Retelling
3.Discussion
PART D Home Listening
Passage 1 Advertisements and Critical Thinking
Passage 2 How to Advertise for a Bank?

UNIT 4 Culture
PART A Micro-listening Listening for Specific Information
PART B Macro-listening
Passage 1 What Are Good Manners?
Passage 2 Tea Ceremony in Japan
PART C Oral Practice 1.Pair Work
2.Retelling
3.Discussion
PART D Home Listening
A Conversation Mind Your Manners
A Passage A Thank You Letter

UNIT 5 Opinions
PART A Micro-listening Asking for and Giving Opinions
PART B Macro-listening
Forum 1 Is It Stupid to Say So?
Forum 2 Handguns
PART C Oral Practice 1.Communicative Function: Asking for and Giving Opinions
2.Retelling
3.Discussion
PART D Home Listening
Forum 1 Call Us with Your Problem
Forum 2 If You CouM Choose

UNIT 6 Money
PART A Micro-listening Summarizing
PART B Macro-listening
Passage 1 Banks
Passage 2 What Is Money?
PART C Oral Practice 1.Pair Work
2.Retelling
3.Discussion
PART D Home Listening
A Story A Dispute over Money
A Compound Dictation

UNIT 7 Environmental
PART A Micro-listening Tables
PART B Macro-listening
Passage 1 Save the Earth to Save Ourselves
Passage 2 Use Less Paper!
PART C Oral Practice 1.Communicative Function.Talking About the Environment and Its Protection
2.Retelling
3.Discussion
PART D Home Listening
A Passage Environmental Problems
A Talk Think Green

UNIT 8 Story Time
PART A Micro-listening Making Conclusions
PART B Macro-listening
Story 1 An Embarrassing Experience
Story 2 An Art Lesson
PART C Oral Practice 1.Pair Work
2.Retelling
3.Discussion
PART D Home Listening
A Story Do Dreams Save Lives? (Part I)
A Story Do Dreams Save Lives? (Part II)

UNIT 9 Food and Drink
PART A Micro-listening Listening for Major Points
PART B Macro-listening
Passage 1 What Kinds of Food Do People Need?
Passage 2 Americans' Favorite Food——The Hamburger
PART C Oral Practice 1.Communicative Function: Talking About Food
2.Retelling
3.Discussion
PART D Home Listening
Passage 1 Meals in Britain
Passage 2 Great American Drinks

UNIT 10 Cities
PART A Micro-listening Listening for Key Words
PART B Macro-listening
A Passage London
A Conversation A City of Light
PART C Oral Practice 1.Pair Work
2.Retelling
3.Discussion
PART D Home Listening
A Conversation A Visit to Edinburgh
A Passage Growth of Cities

UNIT 11 Stories in the News
PART A Micro-listening Finding the Main Idea
PART B Macro-listening
News Story 1 Evening News
News Story 2 News at Six
PART C Oral Practice 1.Communicative Function: News Reporting
2.Retelling
3.Discussion
PART D Home Listening
News Reports 1 Channel Five News
News Reports 2 News at Noon

UNIT 12 Intelligence
PART A Micro-listening Drawing Inferences
PART B Macro-listening
A Passage What Is Intelligence ?
A Story A 2-Year-Old Runs Cash Register at an Eatery
PART C Oral Practice 1.Pair Work
2.Retelling
3.Discussion
PART D Home Listening
A Passage Two Teenage Geniuses
A Compound Dictation

UNIT 13 Special Days
PART A Micro-listening Listening for Major Points
PART B Macro-listening
Passage 1
UNITed Nations Day
Passage 2 Australia Day.
PART C Oral Practice 1.Communicative Function: Talking About Days and Dates
2.Retelling
3.Discussion
PART D Home Listening
Passage 1 Father's Day and Mother's Day
Passage 2 Boxing Day

UNIT 14 Developments in Science and Technology
PART A Micro-listening Listening for Specific Information
PART B Macro-listening
Passage 1 The Internet
Passage 2 The New IPod
PART C Oral Practice 1.Pair Work
2.Retelling
3.Discussion
PART D Home Listening
A Conversation DVDs
A Compound Dictation

UNIT 15 Space
PART A Micro-listening Identifying Numbers
PART B Macro-listening
Passage 1 The IOth Planet?
Passage 2 A Solar Eclipse
PART C Oral Practice 1.Communicative Function: Talking About Space Exploration
2.Retelling
3.Discussion
PART D Home Listening
A Passage The Crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery
A Compound Dictation

UNIT 16 Health
PART A Micro-listening Finding the Main Idea
PART B Macro-listening
Passage 1 Safe Blood
Passage 2 Full of Life
PART C Oral Practice 1.Pair Work
2.Retelling
3.Discussion
PART D Home Listening
A Story Straight from the Can
A Passage Follow This Simple Checklist of Questions
TEST 1
TEST 2
APPENDIX Home Listening:Tapescripts & Key to the Exercises