40 Days to Conquer the College English Test Band 4 - Writing & Translation Workbook

Author: Jiang Tao, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: This book is structured by days, providing a daily learning plan for you. Not only does it include explanations of knowledge and techniques, but it also prepares ample exercises for you to improve and gradually build confidence through practice. The four units are as follows:
Unit 1: Basic Skills. Many teaching institutions focus on writing templates and emphasize the importance of long sentences. Since this is an unavoidable issue, let’s face it head-on and address them all in this section. I have categorized many excellent templates and sentence patterns for the CET-4 and CET-6, providing detailed explanations and exercises to help you master their usage effortlessly.
Unit 2: Organization and Structure. After mastering basic skills, we must focus on how to organize them into coherent writing. In this section, we will spend 4 days learning about the internal structure of paragraphs, through practice, to grasp the writing methods of English paragraphs. The next 6 days will divide CET-4 essays into 6 major patterns, analyze them, and provide practical templates related to these patterns. The goal is to enable candidates to handle any CET-4 writing style with ease, construct clear frameworks, and write in an orderly and structured manner.
Unit 3: Exam Sprint. After mastering the ability to organize writing, we should carefully grasp the characteristics of the CET-4 exam to strive for excellence and score the highest possible points based on our abilities. After all, the CET-4 is a testing method, and any test has its inherent logic. In the first 4 days of this section, we will discuss the requirements, scoring methods, and common mistakes of the CET-4 writing section, as well as analyze the latest exam questions and share many high-scoring techniques. The next 6 days will require you to write one essay each day, compare your work with model answers, analyze your weaknesses, and further improve. Additionally, you will memorize two model essays and be provided with some beautiful works for appreciation.
Unit 4: Translation. Combining the study of writing, we will further explore one type of question in the CET-4 exam—translation—by learning the problem-solving methods and techniques.