Language Skills Category - English Listening, Speaking, and Viewing Tutorial (Teacher's Book)

Author: Lu Zhihong
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: This book is compiled based on the higher and more rigorous requirements of the "Teaching Requirements for College English Courses (Trial)" issued by the Ministry of Education. It is a national-level planning textbook for the "11th Five-Year Plan" in general higher education. This is an English multimedia and three-dimensional textbook meticulously designed, planned, written, filmed, and recorded to meet the needs of the times and teaching reform, while addressing the current English speaking proficiency of Chinese college students and the issues arising from cultural differences between the East and the West in language learning. The textbook integrates the author's years of teaching experience, research achievements, and observations of life in both Eastern and Western cultures. Compared to similar textbooks, the greatest feature of this book is its unique design of content and form from the perspective of cultural differences, providing rich background cultural information, and integrating humanistic education throughout the language learning and training process. The scenarios in this textbook include airports, homes, campuses, classrooms, dormitories, libraries, shops, restaurants, parks, and more. The background cultural short videos are compiled from the author's life materials shot in the United States. Due to the design of a central character—Wang Xin, a student studying in the United States—who runs through the entire textbook, each scenario is organically connected. Additionally, the conversational content is universal, and the language is practical, providing Chinese students with a comprehensive and authentic language learning environment and the "authentic" language used by different characters in real-life scenarios. This helps students broaden their horizons and improve their communication and adaptability skills in real-world situations. The textbook focuses on combining knowledge points with students' weak areas and interests in both content and language, integrating language knowledge, skills, and Eastern and Western cultures into every scene dialogue and related cultural introduction. It consistently emphasizes the cultivation of students' cultural literacy through various communication activities, while also creating a relaxed and lively learning atmosphere. Through vivid language, interesting content, and convenient interactive exercises, the textbook aims to spark students' interest in learning English and help them improve their listening and speaking skills progressively and effortlessly. The textbook includes a student's book, a multimedia CD-ROM, and a teacher's book. The paper-based textbook primarily emphasizes textual information, while the CD-ROM maximizes the effects of sound, images, and graphics. From the writing philosophy, cultural perspective, overall structure, content arrangement, and media integration of the paper-based textbook's communicative activity design to the functional design, technical synthesis, interactive function implementation, and media material presentation on the CD-ROM, from text to sound, images, and graphics, the textbook ensures a unified and complete structural system. The textbook and CD-ROM complement each other and have distinct features, achieving comprehensive innovation in three-dimensional teaching materials. The design of the textbook is based on a computer and classroom-based English multimedia teaching model, emphasizing personalized teaching and focusing on cultivating students' language application skills and autonomous learning abilities.