NewGerman Intensive Course Intermediate I (Second Edition)

Author: Compiled by the Goethe Institute of Tongji University, affiliated with the Ministry of Education
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Publishing Date: 2003-09-01
Features: The "New Precision German Intensive Course" (Revised Edition) consists of five volumes: Basic 1, Basic 2, Intermediate 1, Intermediate 2, and Advanced Course. This book is the third volume, equivalent to the Intermediate Level II level specified in the "Outline for Intensive German Teaching for Study Abroad Personnel," and is suitable for learners who have completed the basic German course (540 hours). This textbook takes into account the characteristics of short-term intensive training and corrects the traditional textbooks' shortcomings of overemphasizing grammar while neglecting practicality in both language knowledge transmission and communicative competence training. In terms of material selection, the book considers the needs of learners' lives, studies, and social interactions abroad. The selected texts cover these three major communicative contexts, and also include some texts introducing Chinese history and culture to foreign countries, enabling learners to develop certain bidirectional cross-cultural communication skills. In terms of exercise formats, the book strives for diversity and a balance of difficulty, focusing on developing learners' 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 exercises are adapted to the themes, allowing for more review of relevant contexts and vocabulary, preparing learners for the transition to the second stage of intermediate studies. All listening texts in this book are accompanied by corresponding audio cassettes.