A Brief Introduction to Cambridge Children's English Textbooks

Cambridge Children's English Test is an open test, which is suitable for children who have participated in their own courses all over the world. Its teaching and examination adopt the same syllabus and are designed into four grades. Cambridge Children's English is specially designed for children aged 6~ 12 in China to learn English. This textbook not only fully meets the teaching requirements of Cambridge Children's English Syllabus, but also refers to the English Syllabus (Syllabus for Nine-year Compulsory Education Full-time Junior High School published by People's Education Press) and the representative children's English teaching standards at home and abroad. It embodies children's cognitive ability and psychological characteristics in content and form, and highlights the characteristics of vividness, interest, relaxation and continuity. Cambridge Children's English is compiled by the Chinese-English Educational Measurement Academic Exchange Center of the Examination Center of the Ministry of Education, Mr. Qiu Yaode, a senior training officer for children's English in Cambridge, China, and Ms. Wang and Ms. Liang Qing, a training base for children's English teachers in Cambridge. In addition to the unified review by the Cambridge Children's English Expert Committee, it has also been reviewed by Ms Melanie Williams, an expert from Cambridge Examinations Committee, Mr Marilyn Burke, an Australian expert, and Mr Gong Yafu, director of the People's Foreign Languages Office. After review, the above experts agreed that the teaching content of the new textbook is closer to the training goal of children's English in Cambridge, and the teaching method is more flexible and conforms to children's psychological characteristics. The whole teaching process can stimulate children's interest in learning English and lay a solid foundation for continuous improvement in the future.

Chen Zhili, Minister of Education, prefaced Cambridge Children's English, and the governor wrote the title after Comrade Bin Liu. Mr. Michel halsted, Chairman of the Examination Committee of Cambridge University, UK, specially addressed readers of children's English in Cambridge. Illustrated with pictures and texts: exquisite illustrations, bright colors and close combination with words can easily arouse children's interest and enthusiasm in learning. Audio-visual combination: lively animation, standard and authentic pronunciation, catchy children's songs and beautiful music enable children to master the most basic communication terms in a relaxed and happy atmosphere. Systematic guidance: each unit of children's learning content is provided with clear guidance steps, teaching content, teaching objectives, dialogue exercises, English games and learning evaluation, which is convenient for parents to guide and urge their children to learn English. This textbook is Cambridge Children's English Level 1: Through the theme teaching of 30 units, learn 26 English letters, common colors, fruits, animals, vehicles, bodies and nearly 60 English words; And simple oral English such as "I have ..." and "I like ...", introduce yourself, ask your age and express your birthday.

Language standard, the textbook is compiled by English experts who have many years of experience in teaching English to Asian children. Its layout design fully considers the characteristics of children's learning, and skillfully integrates relatively boring vocabulary, grammar, pragmatics and pronunciation knowledge. Vivid and standard language lays a good foundation for children's introductory learning.

The content of the textbook is close to life and truly reflects the actual situation of children's life in Asia. Conversations, exercises, songs and games are all loved by children in life, which are easy to understand and accept. This painting and its essays are excellent.

The illustrations in the textbook are exquisite, closely matched with the text, and the pictures are lively, which can easily arouse children's interest and enthusiasm in learning.

Timbre characteristics. Standard language and beautiful music will run through listening, speaking and reading, so that children can master the most basic communication terms in a relaxed and happy atmosphere.

Teaching reference materials and books for teachers and parents are very instructive. Each unit provides the author's design ideas and required teaching AIDS, highlighting the key and difficult points of teaching, the arrangement of classroom activities and the answers to exercises, so as to facilitate teachers and parents to guide, supervise and check their children's English learning.

The teaching arrangement and unit design of teaching materials are completely in accordance with the progress of primary and secondary schools, which is convenient for arranging courses and organizing teaching according to the semester.

This textbook is divided into Preparatory, Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4 (Note: Cambridge Children's English has only Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 exams), all of which are distributed. Each level includes two volumes of books, four listening tapes and a VCD CD introducing Cambridge children's English learning system, so that readers can understand Cambridge children's English learning system and its national unified examination form and process. Cambridge Children's English also provides convenient and colorful teaching AIDS for students, teachers and parents. In addition to teaching materials, there are audio tapes published in the same period, books for teachers and parents, teaching wall charts, word cards and so on. Course introduction, Cambridge children's English is an introductory course. This textbook is a guide and enlightenment for children's English in Cambridge. Starting with the 26 English letters of comics, each letter is accompanied by a nursery rhyme and 34 common words, as well as 20 English songs and a set of alphabet exercises. Combining simple oral communication with English compulsory actions aims at developing children's left and right brains, improving children's comprehensive quality and cultivating children's interest in learning English.

The teaching goal is to cultivate English learning habits and establish self-confidence and honor in English learning.

The goal of this book is to let preschool and school-age children with zero foundation have a certain vocabulary accumulation and can have simple conversations in English. At the same time, we should pay attention to cultivating children's interest in learning English and lay a good foundation for their future English learning in a relaxed and lively atmosphere. Course introduction, this textbook contains 6 14 words including color, animals, food, fruit, family, people, school, friends, organs, oneself, sports, amateur activities, birthday parties and so on. The use of key sentence patterns and daily expressions in each class makes English learning closer to life, and the use of different themes and different scene settings in classroom teaching makes students feel more immersive.

The teaching goal is to know 6 14 new words and master their spelling rules, so as to improve children's vocabulary application ability. The flexible use of spelling in teaching makes students no longer afraid of new words in the article, and it is easier to recite words. Grammatical points involve plural nouns, simple present tense, use of different persons, present continuous tense, use of possessive pronouns, use of BE verbs, general interrogative sentences, special interrogative sentences, choice interrogative sentences, variant forms of gerund, imperative sentences, use of locative words and fixed collocation of verb phrases. Application: Students can simply describe family, school, friends, themselves, sports, shopping, favorite things, extracurricular activities and other topics in English, involving concepts such as age, appearance, color and shape. Course introduction, this textbook contains a series of words such as place, nominal subject pronoun, personal pronoun, adjective, weekly word, month word, preposition, clothing, verb past tense, cardinal word, ordinal number, modal verb, weather word, sports, color, animal, food, fruit, family, school, friends, organs, oneself, occupation, amateur activities and so on.

Teaching objectives and grammar points: changes in the general future tense, the general present tense, the general past tense and the present continuous tense caused by verb changes, flexible judgment of tense, flexible use of possessive pronouns, changes in BE sentence patterns, HOW sentence patterns, special interrogative sentences, affirmative sentences, negative sentences, contradictory interrogative sentences, adjective comparative degrees, superlative and general interrogative sentences, And master this level of 94.199619999695 requires students to master the spelling of key words and phrases in each unit, master the daily language in the book, the key sentence patterns and usage of each lesson, flexibly use the grammar points involved in this level, understand the dialogue, describe a thing with simple sentence patterns, express it in a basically coherent oral way, and correctly make the mandatory actions issued by teachers.

teaching method

Game teaching: let children improve their interest in learning through riddles and intellectual games, and gradually let children master listening skills.

Classroom performance: English stories make your children the protagonists in fairy tales and make your children speak English confidently.

Oral communication: English teaching will give your children more opportunities to contact English and improve their practical application ability.

Immersed in the environment: foreign teachers' classes can increase children's freshness and interest in learning English, and truly experience and enjoy the introduction of foreign life courses. A series of words such as weather words, healthy words, adjectives and verbs have been added to this textbook, including 1800 words with secondary vocabulary, including new grammatical points in secondary grammar: passive voice, present perfect tense, past continuous tense, conditional adverbial clauses and attributive clauses.

Teaching objectives: flexibly use 1864 words and grammar to tell what you see and hear in life, describe all kinds of things around you, people, animals and so on, pay attention to cultivating students' English writing ability, be able to write simple English diaries or short articles, and basically master all tenses. Establish students' English language thinking ability. Be able to read English essays and answer questions in English, so as to meet the requirements of junior high school graduation.

teaching method

English teaching: let children fully enjoy the joy of using English and cultivate the habit of learning and thinking in English.

Classroom performance: The wonderful English descriptions and meaningful English stories in the teaching materials enable your children to enjoy telling stories in English while learning and strengthen their English thinking ability.

Oral communication: The interaction between foreign teachers, China teachers and students in English class will enable your children to fully experience the fun of actually using English.

Immersion in the environment: English short film appreciation and English corner give your children more opportunities to communicate in English and enjoy the foreign language environment, so that your children can reduce their sense of English distance.

Pure pronunciation, solid English foundation, the starting point of success, the characteristics and differences of three levels of children's English in Cambridge

Reading and writing

This part is the written part, and the time is: 20 minutes (level 1) to 40 minutes (level 3). The text is very short and consists of some words and structures with fixed content. Candidates only need to do simple operations such as selecting strokes, filling in the blanks with words and phrases, and answering questions flexibly. The examination papers were sent to Cambridge University Examination Committee for grading.

listen attentively to

This part is also a text part. Time: 20 minutes (Grade I and III) and 25 minutes (Grade II). Like the reading and writing section, the content of the exam is limited to the content specified in the exam. Candidates listen to a short recording of a conversation between adults and children and perform simple operations, such as underlining, selecting, matching and coloring. The examination papers were sent to Cambridge University Examination Committee for grading.

Speak (speak)

This part is divided into face-to-face exams, which last about 5 to 10 minutes. The examination is conducted by experienced and well-trained qualified examiners. Candidates answer questions according to the examiner's visual prompts and provide their own simple situation.