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This textbook aims to improve learners’ ability to listen andcomprehend intermediate Chinese. It consists of two volumes, “Exercises &Activities” and “Texts & Answers”, with a total of 28 lessons. The contentis closely connected to real life, covering areas such as common lifeknowledge, life stories, social issues, encyclopedic knowledge, news,interviews, novels, and academic speeches, with the goal of exposing learnersto a wide variety of language materials as much as possible.
Each lesson is composed of three parts: Pre-task, During-task, andPost-task. The Pre-task part allows learners to fully warm up through sectionslike “Free Talk”, “Life in Pictures”, and “Filling Out Questionnaires”—it helps activate their backgroundknowledge and eliminate language barriers, thereby increasing the proportion ofcontent they can understand. In the During-task part, learners graduallyachieve a comprehensive understanding of the text through exercises thatprogress from easy to difficult. The Post-task part deepens contentcomprehension and focuses on language forms, including both discussions onin-lesson topics and consolidation exercises for the language forms learned inthe lesson.
After completing this textbook, learners will be able to understandarticles, dialogues, discussions, or speeches that cover a wide range of topicsand have relatively complex content and language. For topics in variouscontexts, such as social themes, language and characters, general comments, socialetiquette, psychology and emotions, professional courses, technology, andculture, they will be able to summarize key points, grasp details accurately,understand logical structures, and analyze and infer implied information.Additionally, learners will be able to understand the meaning of unfamiliarwords in context, comprehend Mandarin with a slight accent, and develop theability to take simple notes while listening and retell the heard contentrelatively completely based on their notes.

Editor's Recommendation◎ Centering oncarefully designed listening materials, it conducts thorough listening trainingin a structured and hierarchical manner.
◎ It enhancesthe intensity of listening practice by combining whole-text listening,segmented listening, and whole-sentence listening, as well as integrating audiolistening with listening to teachers’ readings.
◎ Itintegrates listening and speaking, extending the teaching content to real-lifescenarios.
◎ It combines listeningpractice with exam preparation: the exercises at the end of each lessonsimulate the discourse training in the HSK listening test.


Abouth the Author
Li Quan, Editor-in-Chief, is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Chinese Studies and Cultural Exchange, Renmin University of China. Professor Li is also a member of the National Steering Committee for Postgraduate Education of International Chinese Language Education, vice president of the Beijing Language Association, executive director of the International Society for Chinese Language Teaching, and editorial board member of various journals such as Chinese Teaching in the World and Applied Linguistics.

Usage Suggestion
This textbook is suitable for learners who have completed Developing Chinese (3rd Edition) Advanced Listening Course (I) or other advanced Chinese textbooks of equivalent proficiency, and have reached the entry-level of advanced Chinese speaking.
This book contains 28 lessons, and it is recommendedthat 2 class hours be allocated for each lesson. The textbook consists of twovolumes: “Exercises & Activities” and “Texts & Answers”, which can beused in conjunction with each other during teaching.