Cambridge International English Course: 2 Video Activity Book

Author: Richards (USA)
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Features: New Interchange is one of the most popular and influential English textbooks internationally. It summarizes the classroom teaching experience from the past 8 years and has undergone comprehensive improvements and enhancements based on extensive feedback from students and teachers. The main revisions include: new conversation exercises (Conversations), new cultural snippets (Snapshots), new reading exercises (Readings), more extensive grammar explanations and activities (GrammarFocusmodelsandactivities), 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 textbook designed for learners in non-English-speaking countries. The content covers the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, as well as pronunciation training and vocabulary expansion. It particularly emphasizes the development of 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 particular country, region, or culture. Instead, it reflects the richness and diversity of English as a global lingua franca. This textbook is divided into four levels: Introductory, Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3.
Introductory Level: Designed for "true" beginners with no English foundation, it explains basic grammar structures, vocabulary, and language functions.
Level 1: Aimed at learners with a basic level of English, it further develops grammar, vocabulary, and pragmatic skills to help learners reach a low-intermediate level.
Level 2: Aimed at learners with a low-intermediate level of English, it further develops grammar, vocabulary, and pragmatic skills to help learners reach an intermediate level.
Level 3: Aimed at learners with an intermediate level of English, it cultivates the ability to communicate in relatively fluent and accurate English.
This textbook, through a variety of thought-provoking and challenging exercises, enables students to further consolidate and develop their ability to communicate in English. In addition to applied skills exercises, the textbook also includes advanced discourse comprehension exercises. Listening exercises include: listening to narratives, listening to advertisements, listening to discussions, and listening to interviews. Reading activities include: cross-cultural communication themes, lifestyle themes, themes of different values, etc., using authentic reading passages.
After completing all four levels, learners can reach a high-intermediate level.