In-depth Explanation of "New Horizon College English" Reading and Writing Coursebook 3

Author: Chen Xiaoming
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: To help learners better master the content of New Horizon College English (Reading and Writing Course), cultivate their comprehensive language proficiency and test-taking skills, we have compiled the book Comprehensive Explanation (Reading and Writing Course). The significant 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 focus on practicing in each unit. Based on provided examples, it conducts targeted training on the core content. By adopting the method of integrating theory and practice, it reinforces learned material and accelerates the acquisition of new knowledge. Through unit tests and CET-4 mock tests, students can assess their mastery of the text, achieving the effect of learning by analogy. This is an innovative aspect of this series of textbooks—assessing learning outcomes, seeing progress, and identifying gaps, thereby boosting motivation to learn.
2. Expanded Content, Assisting and Guiding Learning: It broadens the scope of knowledge and enhances students' analytical skills. Long and complex sentences in the text are analyzed and translated, helping students grasp the structure of the text from a discourse analysis perspective to better understand the original content. It also provides knowledge related to reading and writing skills, as well as background knowledge, cultural comparisons, and humorous short essays on relevant topics, laying 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 clear emphasis on key points in each chapter, making it easy to find. Additionally, each unit of this book provides synchronous self-assessment questions at the end to consolidate the content learned in each unit, helping learners improve their reading skills, master test-taking techniques, and comprehensively review frequently appearing vocabulary, phrases, and grammatical structures in exams. The vocabulary selected for the synchronous tests is extensive, the grammar is targeted, and the reading passages are familiar, normative, and of moderate difficulty.
This 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, complex sentence breakthrough, text translation, answers and explanations to text exercises, text exercise self-assessment, synchronous intensive tests, and a toolbox. It is suitable for college students currently using New Horizon College English (Reading and Writing Course), as a reference for college English teachers, and for self-study by English learners.