Comprehensive Course (Third Edition)

Author: Wang Xuewei
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: "Comprehensive Course" is part of the "New Era Adult English Series Textbooks," a set of English textbooks designed for adult English teaching in higher education institutions. This series of textbooks takes the comprehensive improvement of students' English application skills as its starting point and breaks through the conventional model of general language textbooks in terms of overall structure. The series consists of three volumes, each containing 10 units. Each unit is composed of 10 key features: Text A (In-depth Text Explanation); Word Study (Basic Vocabulary Explanation); Grammar (Key Grammar Explanation); Word Building (Introduction to Common Word Formation Rules); Supplementary Exercises (Synonym Discrimination and Exercises; Preposition and Adverb Collocation Practice); Text B (Extra-curricular Reading); Reading Skill (Reading Skill Explanation); Writing (Writing Knowledge Introduction); Communication (Dialogue Practice and Discussion of Hot Topics); Hot Words (Hot Words Related to the Unit). Each volume also includes two self-assessment tests and a comprehensive vocabulary list of the words introduced in the volume. This series of textbooks can serve as teaching materials for night schools, correspondence courses, and higher vocational and technical colleges in higher education institutions, as well as for self-study use by English learners at the same level.