Level of Students

By 'intermediate', we refer to the typical Chinese curriculum in the United States, i.e. the second semester of the second year at five hours a week of classroom instruction. It can follow or be used concurrently with an intermediate conversational textbook, such as Talk about China, and should precede the introduction of authentic materials at the third year level. We have tailored the language used in this volume so that it can serve as a bridge between 'textbooks' and 'authentic materials'.

A typical semester in the U.S. lasts fifteen weeks, but trimming the semester by vacations, holidays and examinations leaves twelve solid weeks of instruction. Hence there are twelve lessons in this book. Where semester schemes vary, instructors will find this book quite expandable by working extensively with the supplementary materials included at the end of each lesson.

　

Tunghai University
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
National Taiwan Normal University
The Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

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