DetailsTarget Audience(Age): College, AdultsTarget Audience(Language): IntermediateThe “New Standard Chinese UndergraduateSeries” is a set of Chinese undergraduate textbooks based on the Chinese ProficiencyGrading Standards for International Chinese Language Education, adhering to the integration of “structure-function-culture” andupholding comprehensive quality training featured “language+professionalism”throughout. Aiming at better meeting the needs of Chinese language teaching forinternational students coming to China for undergraduate studies under the newstandard, this series is based on the concepts of “diversification,three-dimensionality, innovation and intelligence”, and is mainly tailor-madefor international students coming to China for undergraduate studies in Chineselanguage. Meanwhile, it can be used in relevant training courses at home andabroad, and meet the learning needs of long-term advanced students andself-learners coming to China to study Chinese. The whole set is divided intothree levels (elementary, intermediate and advanced) and two sequences(horizontal and vertical). The horizontal sequence is divided into four majorsections, including Chinese language skills and knowledge, cultural knowledge,translation between Chinese and foreign languages, and business Chinese, whilethe vertical sequence is based on comprehensive teaching materials,supplemented by teaching materials for listening, speaking, reading and writingskills, which are used throughout the first to the fourth year of undergraduateeducation, so that the ratio of general skills courses with professional skillsand knowledge courses at all levels can be balanced to ensure that students canobtain in-depth and balanced learning effects at all stages of study.Intermediate Chinese Comprehensive Course is a series of intermediate comprehensive textbooks with 2 volumesin total. This book is the second volume.Intermediate Chinese Comprehensive Course II includes 12 lessons intotal, each consisting of the learning focus, warm-up, the text, a word list,key words, language points, comprehension and expression exercise of the text,extended reading and exercises, and general knowledge of the language andculture. The topics involved cover changes in times (or things), culturaldifferences between the East and the West, humans and animals, socialphenomena, study and work, science and technology and life, games and life, humanand space, and Chinese culture. Through the study of this textbook, studentscan master such communicative skills as describing an animal, expressingpersonal opinions about new things, explaining the commonalities and differencesbetween two things, telling personal emotional stories about someone orsomething, explaining the reasons behind a certain social phenomenon andreflecting on a certain social phenomenon, describing the situation ofadulthood or post-marriage living in one’s own country or region, simulatinginterviews, imitating the writing of a paragraph, and applying interrogativesentences.Editorial Review: The Intermediate Chinese ComprehensiveCourse highlights “four combinations” in writing:The combination of language skillstraining and critical thinking skills development. The professional development concept of “language skills training + criticalthinking skills development” is implemented. On the basis of vocabulary andlanguage point learning, the “Text Comprehension and Expression Exercise”section is set up in conjunction with the topic of the lesson. Through a seriesof graded and diversified practice activities, learners are helped to developtheir ability to express in paragraphs and, at the same time, to develop theircritical thinking skills through visualized tools and diversified tasks.The combination of practicality and fun. The topics of the texts are close to life, allowingstudents to have something to say, have the ability to say, and say it well.The content of the topic gives students subtle and positive guidance in thecognitive, behavioral and other dimensions. The exercises are set up in adiversified and hierarchical manner, and at the same time, the games, crafts,simulations and other fun activities are integrated.The combination of coherence andsystematicness. As the key link of the series, the IntermediateChinese Comprehensive Course is the bridge between the elementary andadvanced levels. The involved vocabulary focuses on Levels 5 and 6 of the GradingStandards, with volume 2 exploring forward to the higher levels andfocusing on vocabulary repetition. Grammar points cover Levels 4, 5 and 6 ofthe Grading Standards, and reinforce in-depth explanations of elementarylanguage points and lay the groundwork for advanced language points. In termsof style, the two textbooks focus on narrative language materials andexpository and argumentative texts respectively, helping students to graduallyadapt to the transition from short narrative texts at the elementary level to professionaland academic texts at...
