Longman Foreign Language Press New Concept English - Practice and Progress (2) (New Edition)

Author: Alexander
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Publish Date: 1997-10-01
Features: If you don’t know what it is, it means you must be from another planet. Its classics will make you love it unconditionally. Its charm has driven so many English enthusiasts to embark on an irreversible path of learning English. It has been popular for thirty years and remains your favorite. Now, it transforms into an even more captivating version—this is the New Concept English. This edition inherits the essence of the original, making its lessons more vivid and up-to-date, once again becoming a top contender among English teaching materials. It is the pride of the era, and it will always be cool. This is the first new version of New Concept English since its initial publication. This classic textbook, as always, provides readers with a complete, proven English learning system, enabling students to maximize their potential in the four fundamental skills of English—comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. The new version retains all the fundamental principles that have made New Concept English a world-renowned English course while including the following key features:
· All timely content related to current events in the lessons and exercises has been updated.
· All outdated lessons have been replaced with new lessons and accompanying new exercises and illustrations.
· The original teaching method has been adjusted to enhance students’ communicative competence. Effective listening training is arranged from the th lesson onward.
· The textbook is more concise and streamlined. The supplementary materials such as the type training and penmanship exercises, previously published separately, have been canceled, with their essence integrated into the main course.
· To assist Chinese English learners, the new edition includes a bilingual (English-Chinese) vocabulary list, lesson notes, 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.