High School English Vocabulary - New Oriental Hu Min Learning Words Through Stories (CD-ROM Version) (This book comes with a free audio CD)

Author: Hu Min
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: New Edition: Learn Vocabulary Through Stories: Senior High School English weaves dry senior high school English vocabulary into vivid stories. The words transform into light and playful spirits within the stories, making the reading process enjoyable and engaging, and enhancing word retention more quickly and efficiently! The book selects core senior high school vocabulary, breaking through traditional memorization methods: forgetting words in context, quickly and efficiently acquiring all words, closely aligned with exam points. The book contains approximately 2,002 words, covering key vocabulary in the senior high school English curriculum. New Edition: Learn Vocabulary Through Stories: Senior High School English also provides traditional vocabulary lists with definitions closely aligned with the tested items of the senior high school English exam, enhancing the targeted memorization of words. Chinese Translations for Deeper Understanding: Each article in the book is accompanied by an accurate Chinese translation, aimed at helping students deepen their understanding of the text and more quickly and efficiently memorize key vocabulary in the passage. Strengthen Reading Skills and Improve Proficiency: The length of the stories is equivalent to that of the senior high school English reading comprehension section, making it an excellent supplementary material for preparing for the reading section of the senior high school exam. The creative concept of "learning vocabulary through stories" is like breaking through a window paper, showing people trapped by words a beautiful new world. There are five surprises in this series: Surprise Number One: To see a thousand miles, climb one more story; beyond the story, there are more stories, and even higher levels. From elementary school English vocabulary to TOEFL English vocabulary, to top-level GRE vocabulary, plus 2 books on phrases, 11 books cover eight levels of vocabulary memorization, like a series of steps leading to the pinnacle of English learning. Regardless of how much vocabulary a learner has, they can always find the level suitable for their foundation and goals. Surprise Number Two: Performing acrobatics in a screw shell, memorizing words within context. Everyone loves stories, but not everyone loves memorizing words. Combining the love for stories with the aversion to memorizing words is another major feature and advantage of this series. The editors grab each word and tie it to the story plot, making it an organic part of a joke, an experience, or a scene, linking memory with visual thinking. When you smile after finishing the story, you realize these words are not repulsive; they are actually friends with blood, life, and warmth. Surprise Number Three: Ingeniously arranged vocabulary, a bright path in the shadows. All vocabulary in the series is arranged in the story according to the order of a standard vocabulary list. With this book in hand, you don’t need any additional vocabulary list when memorizing words. As we navigate through each scene, it’s like picking wildflowers by the roadside and placing them in a basket. When we return home, we arrange the flowers in a vase, and the flowers naturally form beautiful patterns. These patterns are skillfully and naturally drawn by wisdom and experience, without any forced artificiality. Surprise Number Four: Handling heavy burdens with ease, natural and exquisite words. A good story is lively and never lets the reader guess the ending; a good vocabulary list is rigid, and we always know the next word. The story writers must ensure that words appear in the story in order while also telling a good story. After all, "you can’t have your cake and eat it too," but they successfully combined the liveliness of the story with the rigidity of the vocabulary list. The vocabulary difficulty and depth increase in steps across the 11 books, and the story content is different, but the words are cleverly embedded within them, as if they were naturally meant to be in that article. In short, the process of learning vocabulary through stories is like a journey full of surprises. This reminds us of the story of Columbus conquering the world: cracking an egg and standing it on a table. It turns out that there are no insurmountable challenges in the world; the key is whether we can find the right key to overcome them. Learning vocabulary through stories is just such a key prepared for everyone to conquer the challenges of vocabulary.