该套教材分读写和听说两种,每种三册,每册配备教师参考书和课件光盘。读写教材主要覆盖以下四个方面的内容:
一、阅读和写作。语言是交际工具,英语学习就是要把英语作为交际工具来学习。从教学的角度讲,就是要培养学生运用英语进行交际的能力。阅读、理解一篇文章是一种交际行为,在有一定输入的基础上引导学生写作也是一种交际行为,它是学生运用语言进行积极思维活动的更高层次的交际行为。对于很多大学生来说,一方面,要提高他们的阅读理解能力就必须让他们阅读大量的英语语言材料;另一方面,由于他们的基础还不是很牢固,因此在基础阶段语言材料的选择上更注重趣味性,练习形式注重活泼与多样性,并在大量阅读提高语感的基础上设计一些紧扣阅读文章内容的翻译和写作活动,以提高他们的语言复用能力和表达能力。
二、词汇。词汇是语言学习的基石,也是学生感到最棘手的方面。其困难主要在两个方面:记住单词难,记住之后在具体语言环境中运用更难。因此本教材除了承袭以往教材给单词注音、标汉语意义的特点外,还在每个四级单词后给出一个例句,为学生学习该单词提供具体的“语言环境”。本教材在词
Unit 1 Language Learning
Part One In-Class Reading
Want to Learn a Language? Dont Make It a Mount Everest
Part Two After-Class Reading
Passage Ⅰ Reading——the Most Important Way to Learn Engli
Passage Ⅱ Improving Your Reading Strategies
Part Three Video Program My Fair Lady
Part Four Grammar 词类和句子成分
Unit 2 Education
Part One In-Class Reading
Part Two After-Class Reading
Passage Ⅰ Bill Gatesl: Education Does Count
Passage Ⅱ Standardized Tests?
Part Three Video Program lts Up to You!
Part Four Grammar 基本句型
Unit 3 Tales of People
Part One In-Class Reading
Part Two After-Class Reading
Passage Ⅰ The Bottom Line
Passage Ⅱ Who Was Mary?
Part Three Video Program A Place of Our Own
Part Four Grammar 动词的时态
Unit 4 Touring Around the World
Part One In-Class Reading
Beautiful Moscow
Part Two After-Class Reading
Passage Ⅰ Finland
Passage Ⅱ Roaming in Hong Kong
Part Three Video Program The Magic of Cuba
Part Four Grammar 动词的语态
Test One
Unit 5 Psychology
Part One In-Class Reading
Personality and Your Health
Part Two After-Class Reading
Passage Ⅰ Howto Handle Stress, Anxieties and Worries
Passage Ⅱ Searching for Smiles
Part Three Video Program Stress and Health Problems
Part Four Grammar 非谓语动词 (——)——不定式
Unit 6 Animal Kingdom
Part One In-Class Reading
Endangered Species
Part Two After-Class Reading
Passage Ⅰ Interesting Facts About Ants
Passage Ⅱ Cats and Dogs
Part Three Video Program The Wonderful Dogs
PartFour Grammar 非谓语动词(二)——动名词
Unit 7 Special Festivals
Part One In-Class Reading
The History of Thanksgiving Day
Part Two After-Class Reading
Passage Ⅰ Christmas in America
Passage Ⅱ Spring Festival
Part Three Video Program Thanksgiving Day
Unit 8 High Technology
Test Two