Golden combination: teach while practicing -- English for 8th grade (Part 2)

Author: Ma Chao, Chief Editor; Wang Zhao, Sub-series Editor; Wang Zhao, Wang Manru, et al., Compilers
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Publishing Date: 2004-11-01
Features: The "One Side Explains, One Side Practices" corresponds to each other, synchronously paired with problem classification, and knowledge points paired with key and difficult points. The ratio of basic to medium-difficult questions is well-balanced.
The junior high edition of "Golden Combination · One Side Explains, One Side Practices" is written according to the teaching syllabus and the People's Education Press textbooks for junior high school subjects. To facilitate junior high students in entering the final review earlier in their third year, we have added comprehensive review materials for junior high Chinese, English, mathematics, physics, and chemistry. To help readers make the most of this workbook, we introduce its features below.
"Golden" is a synonym for "good" and "excellent." This workbook optimizes the design in various aspects, such as the pairing of "explanation" and "practice," the combination of synchronization and problem classification, the pairing of knowledge points and key/difficult points, the balance of basic, medium, and difficult questions, the pairing of lesson-by-lesson practice and unit comprehensive review, and the teacher-student collaboration. Hence, it is called "Golden Combination."
This workbook is organized with "one side explains, one side practices" on each page. "One Side Explains, One Side Practices" also implies explaining and practicing simultaneously or face-to-face teaching and learning between teachers and students. In terms of design, "one side explains" and "one side practices" are combined into a single page, each marked with cutting lines, making every page tearable and independent. It is more convenient for students to use, hand in assignments, teachers to grade, and parents to check.
In content planning, it does not simply involve explaining a lesson and then assigning a practice, as such exercises are already provided as after-class exercises in textbooks. We do not aim to repeat them. Instead, what students need is a workbook that, under the premise of synchronization, summarizes the knowledge system of a chapter into several complete categories of problems for detailed explanations, followed by practice questions based on these categories. This type of workbook significantly improves the purposefulness, comprehensiveness, and test-taking relevance of explanations and question-setting. After using it, students will undoubtedly see rapid improvements in their problem-solving skills, comprehensive abilities, and test-taking performance.
"Golden Combination · One Side Explains, One Side Practices" is developed based on students' needs. Its superiority surpasses that of ordinary workbooks. The form is "one side explains, one side practices," and the content is classified problem-by-problem under the premise of synchronization. Therefore, this workbook perfectly combines the two—"using problems to explain," "using explanations to guide practice," and "focusing on practice."
"Using problems to explain" means using problems to explain knowledge, methods, and abilities.
"Using explanations to guide practice" means using problems to test knowledge, to test the application of methods, and to test abilities. Through explanations followed by practice, students can enhance their comprehensive skills, innovative awareness, and test-taking abilities.
"Focusing on practice" means that after explanations, there are synchronized practice exercises (with separate lesson-by-lesson practice for Chinese), unit comprehensive exercises, mid-term tests, and final tests, catering to students of different levels.
The difficulty of question-setting focuses not only on basic questions but also on medium and more difficult ones, which are the key points of this workbook.
This workbook is suitable for students of medium and above levels. Due to its strong synchronization and convenient cutting, it can be used in classroom teaching, as well as for post-class review and parental guidance. Since it is compiled based on problem classification and synchronization, it is also suitable for regions using textbooks other than the People's Education Press.
Having this workbook is like having a good teacher by your side, and with this good teacher, your beautiful dreams for June will surely come true.