New Life Chinese: Intermediate Spoken Chinese (Volume 1)

Author: Lian Jie'e, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: New Life Chinese - Intermediate Speaking summarizes years of Chinese teaching experience and is written in line with the actual situations of international students. This series follows the patterns of oral Chinese communication, organically integrating grammar, semantics, and context. With communicative functions as the main thread and situational dialogues as the platform, it strives to blend various factors such as ideas, scenarios, and culture into the lessons and exercises. The language is vivid and engaging, enabling students to communicate skillfully, appropriately, and flexibly based on different communication contexts, purposes, and audiences. It includes 2 CDs. The teaching objectives and tasks of this book are to train ethnic minority students' Chinese language skills and communicative competence. The entire series consists of 60 lessons, with 30 lessons in the upper volume and 30 in the lower volume. Each lesson focuses on a specific function and is composed of five parts: Text, Vocabulary, Notes, Expressions, and Exercises.
1. Text
Each lesson consists of two dialogue segments, each set in a different scenario to practice oral communication around a specific function. The scenarios cover a wide range of social life while remaining close to real-life situations, full of interest, and using language that aligns with practical daily communication.
2. Vocabulary and Notes
We select new words from the text, provide phonetic annotations and Uyghur translations, and offer explanations and examples for difficult terms or idioms to help students better understand the content.
3. Expressions
We highlight common and fixed expressions used in oral Chinese communication, explaining their meanings and usage with examples to help students master special Chinese expressions.
4. Exercises
Exercises still focus on the lesson's communicative function, covering vocabulary, expressions, and sentence structures. What stands out is the inclusion of numerous flexible scenarios in the exercises, giving students room for creativity and further strengthening practical oral language training. Additionally, to enliven the classroom atmosphere and spark students' interest, 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 their students' needs. Intermediate and advanced classes can complete one lesson per class, while lower-level classes can cover one lesson in two classes. It is recommended that teaching focus on situational dialogue training and emphasize students' practical application.