Pay attention to cultivating students' English communicative competence, and consolidate, deepen and expand the language knowledge learned in middle schools. This textbook is the first set of national five-year English planning textbooks for higher vocational colleges by the Ministry of Education, and it is a supporting book for the first volume of English courses (books for students). Each unit has background knowledge materials, pronunciation difficulties, vocabulary, text translation and practice answers. Teaching materials pay attention to practicality and strengthen listening. Teaching material construction is an important part of the whole higher vocational education. Since the reform and opening up, with the joint efforts of educational administrative departments at all levels, schools and relevant publishing houses, a number of teaching materials for higher vocational education have been published in various places. However, on the whole, teaching materials with the characteristics of higher vocational education are extremely scarce, and many colleges are still borrowing undergraduate or technical secondary school teaching materials, and the construction of teaching materials still lags behind the development needs of higher vocational education. Therefore, from 65438 to 0999, the Ministry of Education organized and formulated the Basic Requirements for the Teaching of Basic Courses in Higher Vocational Education (hereinafter referred to as the Basic Requirements) and the Training Objectives and Specifications for Professional Talents in Higher Vocational Education (hereinafter referred to as the Training Specifications). Through recommendation, bidding and selection, a group of teachers with high academic level, rich teaching experience and strong practical ability were organized, and a writing team of "Planning Textbooks for Higher Vocational Colleges of the Ministry of Education" was formed. With the active cooperation of relevant publishing houses, a number of "Higher Vocational Planning Textbooks of the Ministry of Education" have been published. The Ministry of Education plans to publish 500 kinds of planning textbooks for higher vocational colleges, which will take about 5 years to complete. The published textbooks will cover the basic courses and major professional courses of higher vocational education. It is planned to be carried out for 2-3 years, and on the basis of inheriting the original teaching material construction achievements of higher vocational colleges, junior colleges and adult colleges, it will fully absorb the successful experience of various schools in recent years in exploring and cultivating technical application professionals to solve the teaching material problems of higher vocational colleges under the new situation; Then, in 2-3 years, based on the research of the project "Project Plan for the Reform and Construction of Talents Training Mode and Teaching Content System of Higher Vocational Education in the New Century", through research, reform and construction, a large number of higher vocational education textbooks of the Ministry of Education were launched, thus forming an optimized supporting higher vocational education textbook system. The Textbook of Higher Vocational Education Planning compiled by the Ministry of Education is based on the requirements of Basic Requirements and Training Specifications, which fully absorbs the successful experience and teaching achievements of higher vocational colleges, junior colleges and adult colleges in exploring and cultivating technical application-oriented professionals, and is suitable for secondary vocational and technical colleges and private colleges organized by higher vocational colleges, junior colleges, adult colleges and undergraduate colleges.