New Concept English 4 (Student)

Author: Alexander
Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
Publication Date: 2005-04-01
Features: New Concept English is a world-famous English teaching program. This edition is the newest version personally revised by the author for Chinese learners since the book was first published in 1967. This classic textbook provides a complete English learning system to help students master the four basic skills of English—listening, speaking, reading, and writing—allowing them to maximize their potential in learning. This edition is the first new version to be released since New Concept English was first published. This classic textbook, as always, offers readers a complete and proven English learning system, enabling students to maximize their potential in the four basic skills of English—comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. The new version retains all the fundamental principles that have made New Concept English a world-famous English teaching program while including the following important features:
- All time-sensitive content in the texts and exercises has been updated.
- Outdated texts have been replaced with new texts and accompanying new exercises and illustrations.
- The teaching method has been adjusted to enhance students' communicative competence. Effective oral practice is arranged starting from the lesson.
- The textbook has been made more concise and streamlined. Sentence pattern drills and written exercises that were previously published as supplementary materials have been removed, with their essence integrated into the main course.
- To assist Chinese English learners, the new edition includes a bilingual glossary (English-Chinese), text notes, brief explanations of exercises, and reference translations of the texts.
- The page size has been increased, and each lesson is relatively self-contained where possible, to facilitate classroom teaching.