New Horizon College English: Reading and Writing Course (1)

Author: Chen Xiaoming et al. (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: To help learners better master the content of New Horizon College English (Reading and Writing Course), cultivate their comprehensive language proficiency and exam-taking skills, we have compiled the book Comprehensive Guide (Reading and Writing Course). The distinctive features of this book are:
1. Emphasis on Key Points, Integration of Theory and Practice: The book lists the key words, phrases, and sentence patterns that students should master and practice in each unit. Based on provided examples, it focuses on core training. The method adopted is to teach and practice simultaneously, integrating theory with practice. Through continuous practice, learners can reinforce what they have learned and accelerate the acquisition of new knowledge. Unit tests and CET-4 mock tests allow students to assess their understanding of the text, achieving the effect of learning from examples. This is an innovative aspect of this series of textbooks, which is to evaluate learning outcomes, see their progress, identify gaps, and boost learning motivation.
2. Expanded Content, Assisting and Guiding Learning: Broaden the scope of knowledge and enhance students' analytical skills. The book analyzes and translates long and difficult sentences in the text, helping students grasp the structure of the passage from a discourse analysis perspective to better understand the original text. It also provides knowledge related to reading and writing skills, background knowledge of relevant themes, cultural comparisons, and humorous short essays to lay a solid foundation for reading comprehension and English writing.
3. Closely Aligned with the Textbook, Convenient to Use: This textbook corresponds to each unit of the textbook, with each chapter clearly highlighted for easy reference. Additionally, each unit of the book provides synchronous self-assessment tests at the end, especially to consolidate the content learned in each unit and help learners improve reading skills, master test-taking techniques, and comprehensively review vocabulary, phrases, and grammatical structures commonly encountered in exams. The selected vocabulary for the synchronous tests covers a wide range, the grammar is highly targeted, and the reading passages are familiar in theme, standardized in language, and of moderate difficulty. The book is organized into 10 units, with each unit consisting of background knowledge, core vocabulary and phrases, word explanation, phrase explanation, text summary, discourse analysis and writing, difficult sentence analysis, text translation, answers and explanations to text exercises, text exercise self-assessment, synchronous intensive tests, and a toolbox.
This book is suitable for college students currently using New Horizon College English (Reading and Writing Course), can be used as a teaching reference for college English teachers, and is also available for self-learners of English.