New Concept English (New Edition) (4) Fluent English

Author: Alexander et al
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: This edition is the first new version released since the first publication of New Concept English. This classic textbook, as always, provides readers with 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 edition retains all the fundamental principles that have made New Concept English a world-renowned English course while incorporating the following key features: All timely content related to current events in the texts and exercises has been updated. Outdated texts have been replaced with new texts and accompanying new exercises and illustrations. The original teaching method has been adjusted to better enhance students' communicative competence. Effective listening training is arranged from the first lesson. The textbook is 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 annotations, brief explanations of exercises, and reference translations of the texts. The page size has been increased, and where possible, each lesson is relatively self-contained to facilitate classroom teaching.