Unit 1: DESCRIBING OBJECTS 描述物体特征.
Lesson 1: Colors and Shapes 颜色与形状.
Lesson 2: Forms of Objects 外形特点.
Lesson 3: Describing Visual Impressions 描述视觉印象.
Lesson 4: Describing a Scene or Space 描述场景与空间.
Unit 2: TALKING ABOUT PRODUCTS 谈论物品特点.
Lesson 1:Types of Products 物品种类.
Lesson 2: Materials and Specifications 材料与规格.
Lesson 3: Product Information 介绍产品特点.
Lesson 4: Comparing Products 比较物品.
Enrichment Unit 1: Products and Culture 物品与文化.
Unit 3: DESCRIBING PEOPLE 描述人物印象.
Lesson 1: Physical Features 生理特征.
Lesson 2: Apparel and Attire 穿着打扮.
Lesson 3: Describing Impressions of a Person 人物印象.
Lesson 4: Portraying a Person 描绘人物.
Unit 4: INTORDUCING PEOPLE 介绍人物简况.
Lesson 1: Industry and Profession 行业与职业.
Lesson 2: Identity and Position 身份与职务.
Lesson 3: Hobbies, Skills and Education 爱好、专长、学历
Lesson 4: Work Experience 工作经验
Lesson 5: Introducing a Person’s Profile 介绍人物简况
Enrichment Unit 2: People and Society 人与社会.
Unit 5: TALKING ABOUT NATURE 谈论自然现象.
Lesson 1: Nature and Weather 自然现象.
Lesson 2: Natural Disasters 自然灾害.
Lesson 3: Climate and Personal Feelings 气候与感觉.
Lesson 4: Disaster Report 灾害介绍.
Lesson 5: Comparing Climates and Reporting Natural Disasters 比较气候、报道灾情.
Enrichment Unit 3: Climate and Environment 气候与环境.
Unit 6: TALKING ABOUT GEOGRAPHY 谈论地理环境.
Lesson 1: Geographic Environment 地理环境.
Lesson 2: Natural Resources 自然资源.
Lesson 3: Characteristics of a Place 地方特色.
Lesson 4: Introducing an Area 介绍地区.
Enrichment Unit 4: Tapping into Natural Resources 开发自然资源.
Unit 7: TALKING ABOUT CITIES 谈论城市.
Lesson 1: In the City 城市设施.
Lesson 2: Urban Characteristics 城区特点.
Lesson 3: Changes and Development of a City 城市发展与变化.
Lesson 4: Introducing Cities 介绍城市.
Enrichment Unit 5: Development and Challenges 发展与挑战.
Dr. Phyllis Zhang is Associate Professor and Director of the Chinese Language Program at George Washington University. A native Chinese speaker, Dr. Zhang received a Doctorate of Education in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University in New York. She is the author of DAVID AND HELEN IN CHINA: AN INTERMEDIATE COURSE IN MODERN CHINESE (Yale University Press 1999, 2003) and DEVELOPING CHINESE FLUENCY (intermediate to advanced; Cengage Learning Asia 2010), and NI WO TA/ DEVELOPING CHINESE FLUENCY: AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE (Cengage Learning, 2015). She also is a certified tester of Chinese language proficiency by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).
Offers thematically organized word lists and grammatical structures for comprehensive treatment of five core areas: Objects, People, Nature, Geography, and City.
Develops fluency in each of the five areas in three progressive stages – (1) Building Core Vocabulary builds a strong vocabulary base essential for everyday conversations; (2) Building Expressive Power adds more sophisticated vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, set phrases and native speech patterns to elevate students’ expressive ability; and (3) Building Paragraph Discourse equips students with sentence connectives, transitional words and phrases for paragraph-length connected discourse.
Incorporates a stimulating array of interactive classroom tasks and technology-supported activities that develops fluency, promotes acquisition and reinforces learning.
Lessons are reinforced through exercises in the accompanying Workbook (printed and online)
Offers thematically organized word lists and grammatical structures for comprehensive treatment of five core areas: Objects, People, Nature, Geography, and City.
Develops fluency in each of the five areas in three progressive stages – (1) Building Core Vocabulary builds a strong vocabulary base essential for everyday conversations; (2) Building Expressive Power adds more sophisticated vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, set phrases and native speech patterns to elevate students’ expressive ability; and (3) Building Paragraph Discourse equips students with sentence connectives, transitional words and phrases for paragraph-length connected discourse.
Incorporates a stimulating array of interactive classroom tasks and technology-supported activities that develops fluency, promotes acquisition and reinforces learning.
Lessons are reinforced through exercises in the accompanying Workbook (printed and online).
The Book Companion Website offers additional student resources such as flashcards to help you review the vocabulary items of each lesson.