NewGerman Intensive Course Intermediate 1 (Second Edition)

Author: Ministry of Education
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: "The NewGerman Intensive Course" (Revised Edition) consists of five volumes: Beginner 1, Beginner 2, Intermediate 1, Intermediate 2, and Advanced Course. This book is the third volume, equivalent to the Intermediate Level II level stipulated in the "Outline for Intensive German Teaching for Study Abroad Personnel," and is suitable for students who have completed the beginner's German course (540 hours). This textbook takes into account the characteristics of short-term intensive training and corrects the shortcomings of traditional textbooks that overly emphasize grammar while neglecting practicality in both language knowledge transmission and communicative competence training. In terms of material selection, the textbook considers the needs of students' lives, studies, and social interactions abroad. The selected texts cover the three major communicative contexts—life, study, and social interaction—and include some texts introducing Chinese history and culture to foreign countries, enabling students to develop certain bidirectional cross-cultural communication skills. The textbook strives for diverse and balanced exercise formats, focusing on developing students' ability to transition from sentence-level to text-level expression while cultivating the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Most of the exercise content is adapted to the themes, allowing for more review of relevant contexts and vocabulary, preparing students for the transition to the second stage of intermediate studies. All listening texts in this book are accompanied by corresponding audio cassettes.