New Concept English 4

Author: Alexander, Ho Sicong
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This edition is the first new version released since the first publication of New Concept English. This classic textbook, as always, provides readers with a complete, proven English learning system, enabling students to maximize their potential in the four basic skills of English—listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The new edition retains all the fundamental principles that have made New Concept English a world-renowned English course while incorporating the following important features: All timely content related to current events in the texts and exercises has been updated. Outdated texts have been replaced with new texts and accompanying new exercises and illustrations. The original teaching method has been adjusted to better enhance students' communicative competence. Effective listening training is arranged from the very beginning. The textbook is more concise and streamlined, with sentence pattern drills and written exercises that were previously published as supplementary materials now omitted, with their essence integrated into the main course. To assist Chinese English learners, the new edition includes a bilingual glossary (English-Chinese), text notes, brief explanations of exercises, and reference translations of the texts. The format has been enlarged, and where possible, each lesson is relatively independent to facilitate classroom teaching. New Concept English is a world-renowned English course, and this edition is the only new version personally revised by the authors in 30 years since its publication. This classic textbook, through a complete English learning system, helps students master the four basic skills of English—listening, speaking, reading, and writing—enabling them to maximize their potential in their studies. In addition to retaining the essence of the original version, the new edition also includes the following important features: Adapted specifically for Chinese English learners, with vocabulary lists, text notes, exercise explanations, and reference translations of the texts added to meet the needs of Chinese readers; outdated content has been removed, with replaced texts accompanied by entirely new exercises and illustrations; the original teaching method has been adjusted to better enhance students' communicative competence; the content is more concise and streamlined, with cumbersome supplementary materials previously published separately now integrated into the main textbook; the format has been enlarged for easier handling, with each lesson relatively independent to facilitate classroom teaching.