Cambridge International English Course (1) (Student)

Author: Jack C. Richards [Author]
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Publish Date: 2001-02-01
Features: New Interchange, the Cambridge International English Course, is one of the most popular and influential English textbooks internationally. It summarizes the classroom teaching experience from the past 8 years, improves and refines the original material Interchange through extensive feedback from students and teachers. The main revisions include: new conversation exercises (Conversations), new cultural snippets (Snapshots), new reading exercises (Readings), more comprehensive grammar explanations and exercises (Grammar Focus Models and activities), and richer listening materials. At the same time, the teacher's book, workbook, and video content have also been extensively revised. New Interchange is a large-scale English course specifically designed for learners in non-English-speaking countries. The course content includes the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, as well as pronunciation training and vocabulary expansion, with a particular emphasis on developing listening and speaking skills. The primary goal of this book is to cultivate English communicative competence, i.e., the ability to flexibly use English based on communicative contexts, purposes, and audiences. The book primarily uses American English, but its content is not limited to any single country, region, or culture. Instead, it reflects the richness and diversity of English as an international language of communication.