In-depth Explanation of "New Horizon College English Reading and Writing Course". 1

Author: Chen Xiaoming
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This series of readers is written by American authors and is composed of 3,300 of the most commonly used words. The language is modern, authentic, and standard. It is pure and easy to understand. You can enjoy learning English without looking up a dictionary while lying in bed. The novels feature people, their eating, drinking, sleeping, and daily activities, as well as their emotions, desires, complex relationships, and conflicts and harmonies between people and nature or society. From the perspective of language acquisition, this series of readers achieves the goal of using 3,300 basic words to meticulously describe and explain the details of life and the rich inner world of people. By immersing yourself in an English novel, you are essentially living in an "English world," which is the best way to solve the problem of Chinese learners of English lacking an English-speaking environment. This series selects 50 outstanding literary works from abroad that are worth reading in a lifetime. Reading these works not only helps you master English but also accumulates Western culture and improves your personal taste and cultivation. This series truly helps you achieve the goal of making English learning a part of daily life! You can read 20 books in a year and 40 books in two years. By reading 40 books, it is equivalent to living in an English-speaking environment for two years, which will definitely enable you to acquire strong English proficiency. Remember, without millions of words of English input, you cannot learn English well. To help learners better master the content of New Horizon College English (Reading and Writing Course) and cultivate their comprehensive language skills and test-taking abilities, we have written the book In-Depth Explanation (Reading and Writing Course). The distinctive features of this book are:
1. Focused and Integrated Explanation and Practice: The book lists the key words, phrases, and sentence patterns that students should master and practice in each unit, and provides focused training on the core content based on examples. It adopts an integrated approach of explanation and practice. Through continuous practice, students can reinforce what they have learned and accelerate the acquisition of new knowledge. Unit tests and CET-4 mock tests help students understand their grasp of the text and achieve the effect of learning by example. This is an innovation of this series of textbooks—assessing learning outcomes, seeing progress, identifying gaps, and boosting motivation to learn.
2. Expanded Content and Self-Assisted Learning: It broadens the scope of knowledge and enhances students' analytical skills. It analyzes and translates long and difficult sentences in the text, helping students grasp the structure of the text from a discourse analysis perspective to better understand the original text. It also provides knowledge related to reading and writing skills, background knowledge on relevant themes, cultural comparisons, and humorous short stories to lay a solid foundation for reading comprehension and English writing.
3. Closely Aligned with the Textbook and Convenient to Use: The book corresponds to each unit of the textbook, with each chapter clearly highlighted for easy reference. Additionally, each unit provides synchronized self-assessment questions at the end to consolidate the content learned in each unit and help learners improve their reading skills, master test-taking techniques, and comprehensively review the vocabulary, phrases, and grammatical structures commonly encountered in exams. The selected vocabulary in the synchronized tests is extensive, the grammar is targeted, and the reading passages are familiar, standardized, and of moderate difficulty.
The book is organized into 10 units, with each unit consisting of background knowledge, core vocabulary and phrases, word explanation, phrase explanation, text summary, discourse analysis and writing, difficult sentence analysis, text translation, text exercise answers and explanations, text exercise self-assessment, synchronized intensive tests, and a toolbox.
This book is suitable for college students using New Horizon College English (Reading and Writing Course), can be used as a teaching reference for English teachers, and is also available for self-learners of English.