TASKS OF THE“INTENSIVE READING”

To Chinese students who are learningEnglish as a foreign language,the“inten-sive reading”course is of great practicalvalue,especially in the intermediate stage,i.e.senior-middle school or the second orthird year in college.“Intensive reading”implies the recognition of the configura-tion,pronunciation,grammatical inflexionand strueture of words,sentences,par-agraphs,and the whole text.It strengthens listening and speaking,affordslanguage,content,and models for writing.