New Edition College English Comprehensive Textbook (2) Student Book (with CD-ROM)

Author: Li Yinhua
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Publish Date: 2008-01-01
Features: To meet the new requirements of college English teaching in the new era, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press proudly presents the "College English" series of integrated teaching materials: textbooks, audio cassettes, multimedia CDs, online systems, question banks, and more are fully equipped. "New College English" (Comprehensive Course Student Book 2) features an authoritative and strong writing team: the entire series is co-authored by experienced professors and English teaching experts from renowned universities and publishing institutions such as Fudan University, Peking University, East China Normal University, University of Science and Technology of China, South China University of Technology, Nanjing University, Wuhan University, Nankai University, Renmin University of China, and Sun Yat-sen University. Comprehensive and reasonable course combination: The series consists of four types of textbooks—Comprehensive, Listening & Speaking, Reading, and Fast Reading—as well as a grammar manual. Additionally, a preparatory-level textbook is available for students with lower starting levels. Each textbook is interconnected, forming an organic whole. Comprehensive cultivation of applied skills: Each unit revolves around a theme reflecting contemporary life, while also integrating language knowledge, practical skills, learning strategies, and cross-cultural communication. This approach guides students to deeply acquire and master language and cultural knowledge related to each theme, as well as rich language materials, and fully trains and practices their comprehensive language skills, especially listening and speaking skills. Innovative and complete integrated support system: The series is accompanied by audio cassettes, multimedia teaching CDs, a question bank, and the "New Concept College English Online Teaching System." This "System" is funded by the Ministry of Education, meticulously designed and developed according to the "College English Teaching Requirements," and has been unanimously approved by Ministry of Education expert review teams. The entire system is comprehensive, helping teachers create new classroom teaching models and providing students with autonomous and interactive learning environments to meet the needs of diversified, networked, and personalized English teaching. This book is the second volume of the "Comprehensive Course," and the four parts of each unit are briefly introduced as follows:
Part I provides an audio recording closely related to the unit theme, requiring students to preview it before class. The text of this recording is appended at the end of the book for reference. This activity aims to activate students' existing knowledge schemas, guide them into the topic, and prepare them for learning the text.
Part II consists of the main text, a glossary, and exercises. The text annotations use footnotes, and the exercise section mainly includes the following aspects: 1) Text comprehension; 2) Text structure; 3) Language awareness cultivation; 4) Language practice.
Part III also consists of the supplementary text, a glossary, and exercises. The text annotations are also in the form of footnotes, and each unit's glossary lists 20 CET-4 words and phrases as reusable vocabulary for practice. Other new words and phrases should be looked up in the appended glossary. The exercises include multiple-choice questions related to the text content, translation of text sentences, and word filling. The answers to these exercises are also appended at the end of the book.
Part IV is an advanced, comprehensive oral and written practice activity. It is conducted after students have studied the main and supplementary texts and undergone a series of language practices, assuming they have mastered the content and language expressions related to the topic. It mainly consists of group discussions and classroom writing. The latter is based on the former, and an example essay is provided in the appended exercise answer key for reference.