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To the students

This book consists of five units; the previous three units (lesson 31 to lesson 45) are mostly dialogues and short passages. Except campus life, topics are based on daily life. The following two units (lesson 46 to lesson 55) are all short passages; the contents are more philosophical and literary. This design is to meet your studying needs according to your Chinese level: when you start to learn this book, you probably master about 500 vocabulary and some grammar knowledge, after finishing unit four, you might prepare for learning semi-intermediate Chinese, with emphasis on both language skill and expression skill on topics. Hope you can get used to the design and like it.

Here are some suggestions for learning this book; your collaboration is very much appreciated.

The basic learning sequence is: new words→text→language points→exercises.

The meaning and usage of new words are the two focal aspects. It is not literally translation between Chinese words and English interpretation. You have to listen to the paraphrase of teachers xarefully for understanding the accurate annotation and special usages of new words.

There are two parts of learning texts: to understand the content of text, to learn language points.

Reading aloud the text smoothly is the expected ability. In addition, in the previous three units, you are expected to understand the recording of CD after studying, in the following two units, you are expected to understand the main idea before studing the text, however, if you cannot do it, you can listen more after class.

There are exercises on language points and expression exercises in paragraph for each lesson; the exercises on language points require your comprehension, and the expression exercises in paragraph require your comprehension of the words and language structure learned from the texts.

In the previous three units, there is a Chinese characters exercises for each lesson, aiming at training your skill of identifying Chinese characters. In the following two units, "Fill in the blanks according to texts" is added for emphasizing some language points such as usages of preposition, conjunction and complement. Looking to the textbook when doing this exercise is not recommended.

In addition, there is a reading exercise after each lesson; some questions are designed for improving your reading skill and expanding vocabulary. You can challenge the aditional material if you successfully fulfilled the required learning tasks. However, this is not imperative.

If you can finish learning the book according to our suggestions, your Chinese can be expected to reach the three level of HSK. Hopefully this instruction can be helpful to you, and may you a great progress in your studies!

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