Erya Chinese: Topics in Contemporary China

This textbook is designed based on topics, each including warm-up activities, teaching objectives, texts, new words, cultural notes, exercises, and oral expressions. The textbook involves 17 hot topics in contemporary China, such as “high-speed rail”, “employment attitudes”, and “mobile phone culture”, etc., all of which correspond to the background of the times, so they can arouse wide discussions and make students come up things to say; the new words include Pinyin, notes and typical example sentences, which take full consideration of students’ vocabulary learned. The cultural notes, which are designed after the new words, observe the principle of combining language teaching with cultural teaching; the exercises check how well students learned the texts; and the oral expressions include discussions, speeches and debates, all of which are closely related to the texts, aiming to improve students’ oral expression ability.