Newly Compiled English Course for Power, Middle Volume

Author: Shanghai University of Electric Power, School of Foreign Languages
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: Main Features: Student-centered, comprehensively improving students' power English proficiency. Expand listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation activities to cultivate comprehensive power language application skills. Language is standardized, scientific, informative, interesting, and practical. Simple and profound, rich in content, broad in scope, and diverse in topics. Since the reform and opening-up, the power industry in China has developed the most rapidly among all industrial sectors. Major power grids have covered all cities and most rural areas in the country. China ranks second in the world in both installed power generation capacity and power generation volume. The power industry in China has entered a new era dominated by large-scale units, large power plants, large power grids, ultra-high voltage, and automation. However, with the continuous development of the economy and the improvement of people's living standards, especially after China joined the WTO, domestic power supply has become increasingly tight. The existing installed power generation capacity and power generation volume can no longer meet the needs of modernization, urgently requiring a new step forward. The rise of the power industry will depend on a large number of high-quality, skilled, and English-proficient power science and technology talents. So, what are the requirements of the power industry for the English proficiency of technical talents? Clearly, CET-4 and CET-6 certificates do not reflect the actual English application level of certificate holders. We believe that being proficient in English means being able to engage in comprehensive activities such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation. Being proficient in English means being able to freely communicate with foreign peers in business negotiations and academic exchanges in English, discussing various aspects of power plant construction, power generation, transmission, and sales. Being proficient in English means being able to write papers, reports, and letters in standardized English. Clearly, the current training models and English textbooks are no longer suitable for cultivating new types of power science and technology talents. Therefore, we must begin a new round of teaching reform. Our goal is to fundamentally change the foreign language quality of graduates from power colleges, enabling them to fully utilize their foreign language advantages in the future and secure a place in the power talent market. With a 60-year history, Shanghai University of Electric Power is the cradle for cultivating power science and technology workers and urgently needed talents for the power system. To train more compound talents that can align with international power standards, we have organized English experts and scholars to meticulously compile a new series of power English textbooks covering five aspects—listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation—and encompassing all aspects of the power industry. Series Features: "Newly Compiled Power English Textbooks" are simple and profound, rich in content, broad in scope, and diverse in topics. They integrate scientificity, informativeness, and practicality, characterized by being new, large-scale, and comprehensive. They emphasize the cultivation of basic skills. The series is divided into three volumes, each consisting of three sub-books, with the content of each volume being as follows: Upper Volume (Volumes 1-3) (Volume 1) Power English Reading; (Volume 2) Power English Speaking; (Volume 3) Power English Listening (1) Middle Volume (Volumes 4-6) (Volume 4) Power English Listening (2); (Volume 5) Power English Writing; (Volume 6) Power English Practical Grammar Analysis Lower Volume (Volumes 7-9) (Volume 7) Power Science and Technology English; (Volume 8) Power Market English; (Volume 9) Power English Translation Target Audience: The readers of "Newly Compiled Power English Textbooks" are college students in power universities and English enthusiasts working in the power industry. Through reading and learning this series, can broaden their horizons, obtain information, and gain knowledge. "Newly Compiled Power English Textbooks" are a good teacher and friend for students and English enthusiasts in the power industry.