New Edition College English Listening and Speaking Student Book (Pre-intermediate) Low Starting Point Teacher Book (Low Starting Point Teacher Book Pre-intermediate)

Author: Zhang Emin
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Publishing Date: 2004-01-01
Features: To the implementation of the "College English Teaching Syllabus"; to adapt to the higher requirements of society for college English teaching; Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press solemnly launched the "College English" series textbooks at the beginning of the new century, contributing to the promotion of college English teaching in China.
A crystallization of collective wisdom: The entire series of textbooks was co-authored by senior professors and English teaching experts from renowned institutions such as Fudan University, Peking University, East China Normal University, University of Science and Technology of China, South China University of Technology, Nanjing University, Wuhan University, Nankai University, Renmin University of China, Sun Yat-sen University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Southeast University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Soochow University.
Comprehensive and reasonable course combination: The series textbooks consist of four types of textbooks—Comprehensive, Listening and Speaking, Reading, and Fast Reading—as well as a grammar manual. In addition, preparatory-level textbooks for the first four types of textbooks are available for students with lower starting levels. Each textbook corresponds to one another, forming an organic whole.
Balancing language proficiency and comprehensive application skills: The series textbooks revolve around the "Comprehensive Textbook" as the core. Each unit focuses on a theme reflecting contemporary life, supplemented by the "Listening and Speaking Textbook," "Reading Textbook," and "Fast Reading Textbook." This guides students to deeply and comprehensively acquire and master language and cultural knowledge related to each theme, along with rich language materials, while fully practicing their language comprehensive application skills on the realistic theme.
A dual-winning strategy of quality cultivation and successful exam preparation: Each textbook includes a certain number of exercises similar to those of the CET exams. The "Test Yourself" section in the "Comprehensive Textbook" is designed in the form of a CET exam paper, allowing students to familiarize themselves with the format and requirements of the CET exam while learning language knowledge and training language application skills, achieving the goal of balancing quality cultivation and exam preparation.
The "College English" series textbooks is a novel, multi-dimensional supplementary textbook composed of books, audio-visual materials, CDs, and online resources. Since their release in 2001, they have been widely welcomed and praised by schools in use. Due to their comprehensive adherence to the basic requirements of college foreign language teaching proposed by the Ministry of Education, they have been selected as the "National Planning Textbooks for General Higher Education 'Five-Year Plan'" and the "Ministry of Education Recommended College Foreign Language Textbooks."
The series textbooks include one volume each of "Comprehensive Textbook," "Listening and Speaking Textbook," "Reading Textbook," "Fast Reading Textbook" (from 1 to 6), and one "Grammar Manual." Due to the vast territory of China, the teaching resources, faculty, and student conditions vary across different regions and institutions. Therefore, it is necessary to implement classified guidance and tiered teaching. To maximize the satisfaction of students with different levels, levels, and learning objectives, we have specifically organized, planned, and written the preparatory-level textbooks for this series. These include one volume each of the "Comprehensive Textbook" and "Listening and Speaking Textbook," written by British experts familiar with college English teaching in China.
This textbook is strictly compiled according to the actual needs of college English teaching in China, with a difficulty level lower than that of the first level of "College English" but reasonably connected to it. Each unit in this textbook is organized thematically, enabling students to comprehensively and deeply master rich language knowledge, acquire cultural information, and develop their comprehensive application skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation. The after-class exercises are designed to be diverse, targeted, engaging, and challenging. In terms of material selection, emphasis is placed on the comparison of different cultures between the East and the West, thereby cultivating students' cultural literacy and awakening their local and cross-cultural awareness.