New Horizons College English Audio-Visual Tutorial · 1

Author: Xu Zhong
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: New Horizon College English is one of the projects under the "New Century Network Course Construction Project" in education. It was planned and edited by Professor Zheng Shutang as the chief planner and chief editor of the textbooks, with the participation of dozens of experienced professors and young and middle-aged teaching backbone teachers from more than ten universities across the country in the design, writing, and production. This series of teaching materials provides a teaching system synchronized with textbooks, audio tapes, CDs, online courses, corpus, and question banks, creating conditions for three-dimensional, networked, and personalized teaching and learning. New Horizon College English: Listening and Speaking Course widely draws on the writing experience of excellent English textbooks at home and abroad, aiming to improve students' English listening and speaking skills through real-life scenarios, authentic language, and diverse exercises. It makes full use of multimedia technology to provide students with rich audio-visual materials and a self-directed learning environment. The content is extensive, the language is standardized, and it progressively enhances students' English listening and speaking skills. It showcases real-life scenarios, explains cultural phenomena, and focuses on improving students' comprehensive cultural literacy and cross-cultural communication skills. The teacher's book and student's book are laid out in a comparative format, providing teaching suggestions, listening scripts, exercise answers, etc., for the convenience of teachers. The CD-ROM contains relevant audio and video materials for each lesson, offering hints and feedback with a clear structure, easy operation, and strong interactivity. The online platform is divided into learning platforms, resource platforms, and management platforms, providing an open learning, management, and communication platform for teachers and students. It provides a supporting listening and speaking question bank that can be used for tests of different purposes, supporting online tests and traditional classroom tests.