Life Chinese: Intermediate Spoken Language

Author: Lian Jie'e
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: The teaching objectives and tasks of this book are to train the Chinese language skills and communicative skills of ethnic minority students. The entire set 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, notes, expressions, and exercises.
1. Text
Each lesson consists of two dialogue segments. These are two different situational dialogues set around a functional theme, each designed for oral communicative training based on the thematic function. The situational content strives to cover a broad range of social life areas while remaining close to real-life scenarios, being engaging, and using language that adheres to practical daily communication standards.
2. Vocabulary and Notes
We select the new words from the text, provide phonetic annotations and Uyghur translations, and offer annotations and examples for words, idioms, and other terms that students may find difficult to understand, helping them better grasp the text.
3. Expressions
We highlight the habitual and fixed expressions commonly used in spoken Chinese communicative interactions, explaining their meanings and usage, and providing examples to help students better master some special Chinese expressions.
4. Exercises
Exercises still revolve around the lesson's thematic function, focusing on vocabulary, expressions, and sentence training. What stands out is that a large number of flexible situational exercises are also set up, giving students room for free expression and further strengthening practical oral language training. At the same time, to enliven the classroom atmosphere and spark students' interest in learning, some songs, humor, tongue twisters, illustrations, riddles, and other easily expressible Chinese content with different cultural colors and styles are selected from various newspapers, magazines, and books and inserted after each lesson's exercises.
This textbook is suitable for use in the preparatory stage. Teachers can flexibly adapt it based on actual conditions. Intermediate and advanced classes can complete one lesson per class, while lower-level classes can take two classes to complete one lesson. It is recommended that teaching focus on students' actual situational dialogue training and emphasize practical hands-on experience.