In-depth Explanation of "New Horizon College English" Reading and Writing Course (2)

Author: Chen Xiaoming et al. (Editor-in-Chief)
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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 natural, yet easy to understand. You can learn English deliciously without flipping through a dictionary while lying in bed. The novels feature people, their eating, drinking, excretion, sleep, emotions, desires, complex relationships between people, as well as conflicts and harmonies between humans 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 your lifetime. Reading these works not only helps you master English but also accumulates Western culture, improves personal taste, and enhances. This reader 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 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 Horizons College English (Reading and Writing Course) and cultivate their comprehensive language skills and test-taking abilities, we have compiled the book In-Depth Explanation (Reading and Writing Course). The remarkable features of this book are:
1. Focused Content, Integrated Explanation and Practice: The book lists the key words, phrases, and sentence patterns that students should master and practice in each unit, providing examples and focusing on core training. It adopts a method of integrated explanation and practice. Through continuous practice, students 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, achieving the effect of learning by example. This is an innovation of this series of textbooks—assessing learning outcomes, seeing progress, and identifying gaps to motivate further study.
2. Expanded Content, Assisting and Guiding Learning: It broadens the scope of knowledge and enhances students' analytical skills. The book analyzes and translates long and difficult sentences in the textbook, 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, cultural comparisons, and humorous short stories on relevant themes, laying a solid foundation for reading comprehension and English writing.
3. Closely Aligned with the Textbook, Convenient to Use: The book corresponds to each unit of the textbook, with each chapter clearly highlighted for easy reference. Additionally, each unit includes synchronized self-assessment questions to consolidate learning and help students improve reading skills, master test-taking techniques, and comprehensively review 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.
This 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. It is suitable for college students using New Horizons 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.