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Brand Background

McGraw-Hill Group (NYSE: MHP) was founded in 1888. It is a renowned Ivy League company in the United States, one of the Fortune Global 500 enterprises, and an internationally leading educational, informational, and financial services organization. The group provides information services for markets in finance, education, commerce, and other fields. It is the largest and oldest educational publishing institution in the U.S., as well as the most important publisher of basic education textbooks and English learning materials in the entire country. McGraw-Hill is dedicated to offering products across various areas such as teaching evaluation, early childhood education, primary school, secondary school, university, vocational education, and lifelong learning, making it one of the most critical resource providers for basic education and English learning in the U.S.

McGraw-Hill Education Publishing Company in China ("Best Friends")

In 1999, McGraw-Hill Education Publishing Company established its representative office in China. Through cooperation with prestigious Chinese publishers such as Tsinghua University Press, Higher Education Press, and China Financial & Economic Publishing House, as well as direct teaching services provided to college and university faculty, the company has contributed to the internationalization of Chinese education. They successfully created the first set of customized learning materials specifically designed for Chinese students by renowned international English education scholars—"Olympic English." Additionally, they actively participated in the "New Curriculum Standards for Primary and Secondary School English Teaching in China" project, providing Chinese teachers with resources such as "Application of English Teaching Standards in Classroom Teaching" and "Standard-Based Course Teaching Evaluation."

Textbook Introduction

The Best Friends series is a brand-new comprehensive English skills course specifically written for non-English speaking countries' children, targeting elementary school students, and featuring a contemporary approach. By stimulating students' strong interest in English, it guides children to actively learn language skills and master fundamental English abilities. It abandons traditional adult-oriented teaching models and closely integrates with the standardized curricula used in regular schools, further reflecting the latest curriculum standards. The Best Friends textbook consists of six volumes. Based on a child's daily life, it systematically incorporates knowledge points throughout the lessons, progressively advancing through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This allows children to naturally acquire knowledge and enhance their practical English communication skills in a relaxed environment. It adopts the "Immersion Environmental Teaching Method," organically combining language acquisition with knowledge learning. Suitable for ages 6-12.

Volumes 1-2: Focuses primarily on cultivating students' listening and speaking abilities, emphasizing oral skill development. It fully reflects the communicative and instrumental nature of language. Conversational content combines games and songs to stimulate interest in learning English. Traditional rigid grammar teaching is broken down, introducing grammatical structures through context. Learning content centers on five major cognitive areas: family, school, pets, animals, and food, emphasizing the integration of English with real-life situations, with the aim of English entry-level learning.

Volumes 3-4: Intensively reinforces listening and speaking practice, gradually fostering students' ability to communicate fluently under English thinking patterns. Learning domains expand into Western humanities, culture, and technology. Contextualized conversational exercises are introduced, increasing reading volume and gradually forming good reading habits. Grammar instruction focuses on tense changes and sentence structure variations, presenting advanced grammar concepts.

Volumes 5-6: Extensive listening and speaking training strengthens accurate English expression. While enhancing reading skills, it transitions organically into writing. Reinforces English thinking patterns, cultivating English thinking abilities. Strengthens the comprehensive application of four English skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing—to enable free and accurate communication through both spoken and written English.

Accompanying Teaching Materials

● Student Book (Student Book)

Best Friends has six levels suitable for children aged 6-12. Each level contains ten units, each unit divided into four lessons (Units 5 and 10 are review units, each divided into two lessons). The Best Friends student book includes nine sections: dialogues, reading, listening, grammar, spelling, phonetics, games, paper-cutting, and interdisciplinary education.

● Workbook (Workbook)

The workbook has six levels. Each unit has three lessons, including coloring, paper-cutting, connecting dots, reading, writing, and short stories. Students can freely express themselves during the exercise activities, breaking away from fixed patterns, enhancing imagination and creativity, and stimulating interest in learning; synchronized with the student book, it helps review and reinforce learned knowledge.

● Teacher’s Book (Teacher’s Book)

The teacher’s book contains all the contents of the student book and provides explanations, suggestions, activity designs, and step-by-step course settings for each part of the student book. Each lesson clearly shows teaching objectives, teaching aids, and new sentence patterns. The grammar hint section specifies how and when to teach grammar. Fun and Games proposes appropriate teaching activities for reference. Listening scripts are clearly marked with unit, lesson, page number, and exercise number. After each unit, there is a test question page to check students' learning outcomes.

● Class Audio CD

Each level is accompanied by a CD that includes songs, dialogues, phonetics, and listening exercises from the student book. The CD features authentic American pronunciation, aiding both classroom teaching and home revision/preparation.

● Teaching Poster (Poster)

Teaching posters are colorful and feature adorable and interesting plots, helping attract students' attention during lessons and providing convenience for teachers. Displayed in classrooms, they create a learning atmosphere, facilitating students' revision and preview. Additionally, posters can be useful for parent visits and promotional purposes.

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