English Recitation Classics: 1

Author: Zhang Rui et al
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Publishing Date: 2006-03-01
Features: The High School Edition of English Recitation Classics takes the perspective of recitation to advocate a brand-new English learning method across the country. Specifically, we have three main principles:
1. Innovative Preparation: Recitation is the key to learning English well. We should recite more, which is a consensus shared by everyone, whether teachers, students, or parents. This view seems to have been silenced in the traditional practice of rote memorization of textbooks or the monotonous sea of exercises. However, English Recitation Classics High School Edition can, to some extent, awaken people's awareness of textual recitation.
2. Know Thyself and Thy Enemy: Victory in a hundred battles comes from knowing oneself and the enemy. In recent years, the selection of passages in the English college entrance examination papers has maintained relative stability in terms of content, difficulty, and principles. English Recitation Classics High School Edition stands at the forefront of college entrance examination question-setting and accurately grasps its pulse.
(1) Content Selection: The genres are diverse, and the themes are broad, mainly including the following ten categories: prose, stories, inspirational, biographical, cultural, humorous, scientific, argumentative, review, and poetry. In recent years, the cloze tests in the college entrance examination have focused more on prose or stories.
(2) Difficulty Selection: It is basically consistent with the difficulty level of passages required by the New English Curriculum Standards and the College Entrance Examination Syllabus. In terms of reading, students are expected to understand short written materials on familiar daily topics. They should be able to "grasp the main ideas; understand specific information; infer the meaning of unfamiliar words from context; make simple judgments and inferences; understand the basic structure of the text; and grasp the author's intent and attitude."
(3) Selection Principles:
(1) Readability: It can attract students' interest, help them acquire relevant information and knowledge, and truly make learning worthwhile.
(2) Aesthetic Value: The passages are rich in content, clear in theme, elegant in language, and natural in expression.
(3) Thoughtfulness: After reading, students should be moved and inspired, gaining enlightenment and education.
(4) Cultural Value: It helps students understand topics related to daily life, hobbies, historical background, customs, and scientific and cultural knowledge in countries like the UK and the US.
(5) Practicality: It focuses on topics related to the growth and education of adolescents.
English Recitation Classics High School Edition selects over 60 representative college entrance examination passages from the past two years across the country, forming a small college entrance examination question bank. By reciting these passages, students can accurately grasp the mindset of the question-setters and achieve significant improvements in their test scores.
3. Double Benefits, Classic Collection: English Recitation Classics High School Edition not only meets the extracurricular leisure reading needs of high school students but also fulfills the urgent requirements of teachers, parents, and students for college entrance examination preparation.
On one hand, the content of English Recitation Classics High School Edition is very broad, with fresh topics, short passages that can be read in ten minutes, a vocabulary list, explanations of high-frequency exam vocabulary, idioms, and fixed expressions, and bilingual (Chinese-English) comparisons. High school students can easily understand and achieve the goals of leisure reading.
On the other hand, the content, difficulty, and principles of selection in English Recitation Classics High School Edition accurately reflect the trends and dynamics of recent college entrance examinations in English. Overall, it has two distinct features:
(1) Classic: It embodies the requirements of quality-oriented education, compiling the best college entrance examination passages from across the country and provinces/municipalities, making it a valuable collection for exam review.
(2) Forward-Looking: It captures the pulse of recent college entrance examination question-setting, selecting passages from the latest newspapers and magazines that match the difficulty level of the exams, helping students generalize and truly improve their reading skills, thereby overcoming the challenges of textual comprehension in the college entrance examination.
Therefore, this book is suitable for extracurricular reading for high school students and can also be used as a collection for exam review, especially for senior high school students preparing for the college entrance examination.