Chinese Life: Intermediate Spoken Chinese (Volume 2)

Author: Lian Jie'e, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This series of textbooks was compiled based on years of teaching experience, taking into account the actual situation of ethnic minority students. It follows the patterns of oral Chinese communication, organically integrating grammar, semantics, and context. With the communicative functions of Chinese as the main thread and situational dialogues as the platform, it strives to organically blend various factors such as ideas, scenarios, and culture into the texts and exercises. The language is vivid and the content is engaging, enabling students to communicate proficiently, appropriately, and flexibly according to different communication subjects, occasions, and purposes. This series of textbooks is accompanied by audio cassettes. The teaching objectives and tasks of this book are to train ethnic minority students' Chinese language skills and communicative abilities. The entire series consists of 65 lessons, with 33 lessons in the upper volume and 32 lessons in the lower volume. Each lesson focuses on a specific function and is composed of five parts: text, vocabulary, annotations, expressions, and exercises.
1. Text
Each lesson consists of two dialogue segments, each set around a different scenario to practice oral communication skills related to a specific function. The scenarios cover a wide range of social life areas while remaining close to real-life situations, featuring interesting content and language that adheres to practical daily communication standards.
2. Vocabulary and Annotations
We select the new words from the text, provide phonetic annotations and Uyghur translations, and offer annotations and examples for difficult words or idioms to help students better understand the text.
3. Expressions
We highlight the fixed expressions commonly used in oral Chinese communication, explaining their meanings and usage with examples to help students master special Chinese expressions.
4. Exercises
The exercises still focus on the lesson's communicative function, covering vocabulary, expressions, and sentence practice. What stands out is that the exercises also include numerous flexible scenarios, giving students room for creativity and further strengthening practical oral language training. Additionally, to enliven the classroom atmosphere and spark students' interest in learning, we have selected songs, humor, tongue twisters, illustrations, riddles, and other culturally rich and stylistically diverse content from various newspapers, magazines, and books to insert after each lesson's exercises.
This textbook is suitable for use in preparatory courses. Teachers can adapt it flexibly based on actual conditions. Intermediate and advanced classes can complete one lesson per class, while lower-level classes can take two classes to cover one lesson. It is recommended that teaching focus on students' practical situational dialogue training, emphasizing hands-on practice.