College English (New Edition) Comprehensive Course (2) Student Book: Student Book (New Edition)

Author: Li Yinhua
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: To meet the new requirements of college English teaching in the new era, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press proudly presents the "College English" series of integrated teaching materials—comprising textbooks, audio cassettes, multimedia CDs, online systems, and a question bank, all fully equipped.
Authoritative and Strong Writing Team: The entire series is co-authored by experienced professors and English teaching experts from renowned universities and publishing 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, and Sun Yat-sen University.
Comprehensive and Reasonable Curriculum Design: The series consists of four types of textbooks—Comprehensive, Listening & Speaking, Reading, and Fast Reading—as well as a grammar manual. Additionally, a preparatory-level textbook is available for students with lower starting levels. Each textbook is interconnected, forming an organic whole.
Holistic Development of Comprehensive Application Skills: Each unit revolves around a theme reflecting contemporary life, while also integrating language knowledge, practical skills, learning strategies, and cross-cultural communication. This approach guides students to deeply acquire and master language and cultural knowledge related to each theme, along with rich language materials, and fully trains and practices their comprehensive language application skills, especially listening and speaking abilities.
Innovative and Comprehensive Integrated Support System: The series is supported by audio cassettes, multimedia teaching CDs, a question bank, and the "New Concept College English Online Teaching System." This "System" was developed under the approval of the Ministry of Education, meticulously designed and researched in accordance with the "College English Teaching Requirements," and unanimously passed by expert evaluation from the Ministry of Education. The entire system is complete, helping teachers create new classroom teaching models and providing students with autonomous and interactive learning environments to meet the needs of diversified, networked, and personalized English teaching.
This book is the second volume of the "Comprehensive Textbook." Below is a brief introduction to the four parts of each unit:
Part I provides an audio recording closely related to the unit theme, requiring students to preview it before class. The transcript of this recording is appended at the end of the book for reference. This activity aims to activate students' existing knowledge schemas, guide them into the topic, and prepare them for learning the text.
Part II consists of the main text, a glossary, and exercises. Annotations in the text are presented in footnotes, and the exercise section mainly includes the following aspects: 1) Text Comprehension; 2) Text Structure; 3) Language Sense Cultivation; 4) Language Practice.
Part III also includes a supplementary text, a glossary, and exercises. Annotations in the text are also presented in footnotes, and each unit's glossary lists 20 CET-4 words and phrases as reusable vocabulary for practice. Other new words and phrases should be looked up in the appended glossary. Exercises include multiple-choice questions related to the text, translation of text sentences, and word fill-in exercises. The answers to these exercises are also appended at the end of the book.
Part IV is an advanced, comprehensive oral and written practice activity. It is conducted after students have studied the main and supplementary texts and completed a series of language exercises, assuming they have mastered the content and language expressions related to the topic. It mainly consists of group discussions and classroom writing. The latter is based on the former, and an example essay is provided in the appended exercise answer key for reference.