Longman English Fun Stories for Middle School.7

Author: Yang Feng
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: Modern language teaching theory holds that reading is the process of cultivating students' abilities to find, process, store, and retrieve information. At the same time, the selection of reading materials emphasizes thematic focus, interest, and appropriate difficulty. Guided by this philosophy, the authors have collaborated with Pearson Education Group, a world-renowned English education publishing institution, to jointly launch the Longman Middle School English Interest Stories, enabling students to improve their English reading skills more easily and quickly. The Longman Middle School English Interest Stories is a treasure for students, jointly created by Jijin and Longman. This collection of stories is humorous, lively, rich in content, and beautifully designed. Below, the authors introduce the philosophy, approach, and features of this series:
1. Unique Themes
This series selects 135 classic humorous short stories from Western countries (15 stories per book, 9 books in total). Each story is witty and profound, subtly improving readers' reading skills while they laugh. At the same time, it allows readers to fully appreciate the sophisticated Western "blue humor" without leaving their country, experiencing differences in Chinese and Western cultures, lifestyles, leisure, and society.
2. Innovative Sections
The design of the sections follows the principles of being fashionable, novel, clear, and practical, with four small sections:
1. Vocabulary Express: New words appear progressively and repeatedly in the text to aid memory. They align with the vocabulary requirements of the new English curriculum standards, featuring bilingual definitions and example sentences to overcome reading barriers.
2. Grammar Tips: This section provides detailed explanations of key vocabulary and concise descriptions of common grammar, perfectly matching readers' actual levels.
3. Skill Tests: The exercises in this section are diverse, closely aligned with middle and high school exams while also extending training content, making them both practical and exam-oriented.
4. Translation Appreciation: Each short story comes with a translation. The translated text is concise, appropriately worded, and humorous, offering a reference for readers to enjoy.
3. Rich Exercises
After each short story, a set of exercises tailored to the needs of Chinese students is provided, including:
1. Multiple-choice questions to test comprehension of the story.
2. True-or-false questions to test understanding of sentence structures.
3. Matching questions to test mastery of sentence meaning and structure.
4. Vocabulary exercises to test memory.
5. For younger students, the authors have specially designed spelling exercises in the first three books of the series.
6. Fill-in-the-blank exercises to help master specific grammar points.
7. Writing exercises to improve writing skills.
4. Gradual Difficulty
This collection of interest stories is meticulously designed by authoritative experts and scholars in China. The stories progress from simple to complex, vocabulary and language from easy to difficult, and skill training in a step-by-step manner, allowing readers to advance effortlessly.
5. Unique Design
The packaging of this series is exquisite, and the content is rich, offering a fresh and engaging experience. English education has entered the era of Jijin, and the authors proudly present the Longman Middle School English Interest Stories, enabling readers to improve their English skills while enjoying humorous stories.
Modern language teaching theory holds that reading is the process of cultivating students' abilities to find, process, store, and retrieve information. At the same time, the selection of reading materials emphasizes thematic focus, interest, and appropriate difficulty. Guided by this philosophy, the authors have collaborated with Pearson Education Group, a world-renowned English education publishing institution, to jointly launch the Longman Middle School English Interest Stories, enabling students to improve their English reading skills more easily and quickly. The Longman Middle School English Interest Stories is a treasure for students, jointly created by Jijin and Longman. This collection of stories is humorous, lively, rich in content, and beautifully designed. Below, the authors introduce the philosophy, approach, and features of this series:
1. Unique Themes
This series selects 135 classic humorous short stories from Western countries (15 stories per book, 9 books in total). Each story is witty and profound, subtly improving readers' reading skills while they laugh. At the same time, it allows readers to fully appreciate the sophisticated Western "blue humor" without leaving their country, experiencing differences in Chinese and Western cultures, lifestyles, leisure, and society.
2. Innovative Sections
The design of the sections follows the principles of being fashionable, novel, clear, and practical, with four small sections:
1. Vocabulary Express: New words appear progressively and repeatedly in the text to aid memory. They align with the vocabulary requirements of the new English curriculum standards, featuring bilingual definitions and example sentences to overcome reading barriers.
2. Grammar Tips: This section provides detailed explanations of key vocabulary and concise descriptions of common grammar, perfectly matching readers' actual levels.
3. Skill Tests: The exercises in this section are diverse, closely aligned with middle and high school exams while also extending training content, making them both practical and exam-oriented.
4. Translation Appreciation: Each short story comes with a translation. The translated text is concise, appropriately worded, and humorous, offering a reference for readers to enjoy.
3. Rich Exercises
After each short story, a set of exercises tailored to the needs of Chinese students is provided, including:
1. Multiple-choice questions to test comprehension of the story.
2. True-or-false questions to test understanding of sentence structures.
3. Matching questions to test mastery of sentence meaning and structure.
4. Vocabulary exercises to test memory.
5. For younger students, the authors have specially designed spelling exercises in the first three books of the series.
6. Fill-in-the-blank exercises to help master specific grammar points.
7. Writing exercises to improve writing skills.
4. Gradual Difficulty
This collection of interest stories is meticulously designed by authoritative experts and scholars in China. The stories progress from simple to complex, vocabulary and language from easy to difficult, and skill training in a step-by-step manner, allowing readers to advance effortlessly.
5. Unique Design
The packaging of this series is exquisite, and the content is rich, offering a fresh and engaging experience. English education has entered the era of Jijin, and the authors proudly present the Longman Middle School English Interest Stories, enabling readers to improve their English skills while enjoying humorous stories.