闫晓云主编的《基础实用英语听说教程(第四册)》是为少数民族地区高校学生编写的大学英语教材。在设计和编写上严格按照《大学英语课程教学要求》，并结合少数民族地区学生的实际英语水平，以打好英语基础和提高语言应用能力为最终目的，打造富有我国民族特色的新型大学英语教材。本书在编写过程中，吸取了我国在外语教学中长期积累下来的行之有效的经验和方法，仔细研究和分析了我国少数民族学生在英语学习中经常遇到的问题及教师在教学过程中的困惑，在教材的编写理念和教学模式上不断创新，充分反映了当今外语教育研究的最新成果。全套教材由《基础实用英语读写教程》(1～4册)和《基础实用英语听说教程》(1～4册)构成，每册设有八个单元，并配有详尽的教师用书和教学课件。教材内容以单元话题为主线，涉及现代技术、道德情感、文化知识、科学教育等多个方面。语言素材真实、地道，选材广泛，文章短小精悍，具有知识性、趣味性和实用性的鲜明特点。

Unit 1 Jobs

 Getting to be familiar with the words related to jobs

 Understanding the ways to handle resumes and prepare for job interviews

 Learning to respond at the job interview as an interviewee

Unit 2 Healthy Life

 Getting to know about the healthy lifestyle

 Listening to people talking about how to keep fit

Unit 3 Advertisement

 Understanding different types of advertisements and their features

 Identifying the implied meaning of ads

 Talking about different opinions about ads

Unit 4 Information Technology

 Getting to be familiar with the terms concerning information technology

 Understanding different aspects of information technology

 Talking about different products of high technology

Unit 5 Future Life

 Getting to be familiar with the terms concerning future life

 Understanding various listening materials about future life

 Talking about what life would be like in the future

Unit 6 Aging

 Becoming familiar with how the aging problems are described

 Getting to know what people can do to make the old to live a happy and healthy life

 Talking about the aging problems and how to solve them

Unit 7 Nature

 Identifying different natural disasters

 Talking about natural resources and natural disasters

Unit 8 GoingThrough Customs..

 Getting to be familiar with the expressions concerning customs affairs

 Understanding different aspects related to going through customs

 Learning how to communicate with customs officers