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New English File: Elementary Level

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New English File, as its name suggests, is the new and improved version of English File. Unlike the original English File, which came in four levels (Beginner, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate and Upper-Intermediate), the new version is a revision of the first two levels (Beginner and Pre-Intermediate.)
Unlike the original English File 1, which is divided into 10 files or units, the new version has 9 files for both levels. Also unlike the previous version, where you would encounter several sections on each file from A to (sometimes) H, the files in the new edition only have four sections: A, B, C and D.
A new addition to the new version is the MultiROM, which contains both an audio CD (in the original edition refered to as the "Listen and Speak" cassette/CD) and a CD-ROM, which the original English File did not have. The CD-ROM part of the CD contains the videos from the New English File video program available in both DVD and VHS format. If you play the MultiROM on a regular CD player, one of the sections will be the Mini-Phrasebook, in which, when you hear a sentence, you respond to it. Here's an example of how the Mini-Phrasebook works:

YOU HEAR: Hello, how are you?
YOU SAY: Fine, thanks or OK, thanks or whatever you use to say when asked that question in public.

Also, there has been a change on the number of cassettes/CDs for the Class Audio Program. Whereas English File 1 had 3 cassettes or 4 CDs for the Class Audio Program, New English File has 3 Cassettes/CDs for the Class Audio Program.


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I gave this a 3 for "Unknown." Why is there so brief of a description? Possible buyers would like to know more about any book than is given here. What is the point of the word "file" in the title. I would guess that there might be something special or at least different in this ESL book, but the author and publisher have chosen to use the silent approach.