There are four volumes of New Concept English. The first volume, first come, first served, is suitable for students with zero foundation. It selects common daily life scenes, and through a lot of dialogues and exercises, makes learners familiar with various common topics and gain preliminary listening and speaking ability.
The second volume, Practice and Progress, is a preparatory course before learning the primary text and entering the intermediate level. Based on 96 short stories, each story is between 80 words and 180 words in length. New concept 2 focuses on cultivating the ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing, and at the same time lets students systematically master basic grammar such as clauses and tenses.
The third book, Developing Skills, is an intermediate course and the most classic one in the whole new concept series. There are 60 texts in the third volume of New Concept English, and the length of the texts has changed from the initial 250 words to the last 500 words. The overall difficulty of the article is equivalent to CET-4 and CET-6.
The fourth volume "Fluent English" is the highest stage of this book. There are 48 texts in this volume, including famous essays, newspaper articles, scientific and technological expositions, etc. , there is a certain difficulty. The fourth volume focuses on cultivating students' ability to master the language and think independently in English.
Methods of learning new concept English
Before studying, you can choose teaching materials according to your own foundation. Beginners can learn from the second book, and CET-4 and CET-6 can start from the third book. Students who want to further improve their English can study Book Four.
Because the new concept textbook is equipped with complete English and American pronunciation reading audio, it can be used to practice reading and listening at the same time. When using, don't read the original text first, read the text roughly according to the audio, then do intensive reading exercises, find out unfamiliar words and sentences, focus on learning, refer to grammar books, and understand the grammar knowledge points appearing in the text. For interested sentence paragraphs, you can also recite or do imitation exercises.
Generally speaking, after learning new concept 2, the vocabulary can be around 4000, after learning new concept 3, it is around 7000, and after learning new concept 4, it can be close to 10000. If you can study the whole set of textbooks carefully, you will gain a solid English foundation and have the ability to further improve yourself, such as increasing your vocabulary by reading foreign periodicals and original books independently, training your listening by listening to foreign news, and expressing your thoughts more accurately through writing.