Huanying vol.3 - Textbook

The Huanying, Volume 3 textbook covers the third year of study at the secondary school level. Like Volume 1, the textbook includes 4 units and covers topics such as Running for Class President, Grandma and Grandpa, Freedom and Responsibility, Learning to Drive, and International Culture Day. Each unit has Learning Goals, includes 5 lessons plus one unit review, and a Self-Assessment checklist. Each lesson includes, two dialogues/texts, a New Words section with vocabulary in simplified and traditional characters, pinyin, and English, Language Notes that discuss grammar and usage structures through explanation and example, Extend Your Knowledge (supplemental vocabulary), A Glimpse into Chinese Culture, and a Do You Know? section that offers additional cultural information. While the core of the textbook is in simplified characters, the vocabulary is also presented in traditional characters both in the main body of the text as well as in the Chinese-English, English-Chinese, and proper noun indexes at the back of the book. Dialogues are also presented in traditional characters in a special index at the back to facilitate dual-character learning. Volume 3 introduces approximately 360 new characters with an additional estimated 200 supplementary vocabulary terms.