Intermediate Chinese Comprehensive Course Ⅱ

The “New Standard Chinese Undergraduate Series” is a set of Chinese undergraduate textbooks based on the Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education, adhering to the integration of “structure-function-culture” and upholding comprehensive quality training featured “language+professionalism” throughout. Aiming at better meeting the needs of Chinese language teaching for international students coming to China for undergraduate studies under the new standard, this series is based on the concepts of “diversification, three-dimensionality, innovation and intelligence”, and is mainly tailor-made for international students coming to China for undergraduate studies in Chinese language. Meanwhile, it can be used in relevant training courses at home and abroad, and meet the learning needs of long-term advanced students and self-learners coming to China to study Chinese. The whole set is divided into three levels (elementary, intermediate and advanced) and two sequences (horizontal and vertical). The horizontal sequence is divided into four major sections, including Chinese language skills and knowledge, cultural knowledge, translation between Chinese and foreign languages, and business Chinese, while the vertical sequence is based on comprehensive teaching materials, supplemented by teaching materials for listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, which are used throughout the first to the fourth year of undergraduate education, so that the ratio of general skills courses with professional skills and knowledge courses at all levels can be balanced to ensure that students can obtain in-depth and balanced learning effects at all stages of study. Intermediate Chinese Comprehensive Course is a series of intermediate comprehensive textbooks with 2 volumes in total. This book is the second volume. Intermediate Chinese Comprehensive Course II includes 12 lessons in total, 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 and culture. The topics involved cover changes in times (or things), cultural differences between the East and the West, humans and animals, social phenomena, study and work, science and technology and life, games and life, human and space, and Chinese culture. Through the study of this textbook, students can master such communicative skills as describing an animal, expressing personal opinions about new things, explaining the commonalities and differences between two things, telling personal emotional stories about someone or something, explaining the reasons behind a certain social phenomenon and reflecting on a certain social phenomenon, describing the situation of adulthood or post-marriage living in one’s own country or region, simulating interviews, imitating the writing of a paragraph, and applying interrogative sentences.