Developing Chinese (3rd Edition) is a set of systematic Chinese language teaching materials foradults that embodies the teaching concept of “development” and adopts the modelof “integrating comprehensive language ability cultivation with specializedlanguage skills training”, which can be divides into three levels (elementary,intermediate and advanced) and six series (comprehensive, speaking, listening,reading, writing and elementary reading and writing), with a total of 28volumes.
Developing Chinese (3rd Edition) Intermediate Listening Course (Ⅱ) is alistening textbook in the Developing Chinese series, suitable forlearners who have completed Developing Chinese Intermediate Listening Course(Ⅰ) or equivalent elementary Chinese textbooks and have reached theentry-level of intermediate Chinese. With the aim of improving learners’ability to comprehend intermediate-level Chinese, this textbook consists of twovolumes: “Exercises and Activities” and “Texts and Answers”, totaling 28lessons. The content of the texts is closely linked to real life, and someinvolve cross-cultural communication, such as discussions on how to buy booksonline, how to address strangers, as well as accounts of social issues,scientific knowledge, and life stories. Each lesson is composed of three parts:Pre-task, While-task, and Post-task. In Pre-task, the “Free Talk” section isdesigned for full warm-up, activating background knowledge and removinglanguage barriers to increase the proportion of content that can be understood.In While-task, through exercises that progress from easy to difficult, learnersare guided to use correct listening strategies and gradually achievecomprehension of the texts. Post-task deepens the content and focuses onlanguage forms, including discussions on in-class topics or after-classsurveys, as well as consolidation exercises for the language knowledge learnedin the lesson. After completing this textbook, learners will be able to graspthe main content and viewpoints of familiar conversations or speeches, identifythe main content and key information in dialogues or conversations withinspecific materials, and understand the speakers’ intentions, comprehend thegeneral meaning of narrative and argumentative discourses at the intermediateentry level, roughly understand longer stories on familiar topics, and conductgeneral communication with native Chinese speakers on common topics.
· Centering on carefully designed listening materials, it conductsthorough listening training in a structured and hierarchical manner.
· Enhances listening practice intensity by combining full-textlistening, segmented listening, and sentence-by-sentence listening, as well asintegrating audio listening with teacher-led reading.
· Integrates listening and speaking, extending teaching content toreal-life scenarios.
· Combineslistening training with exam preparation, seeing that the “Language ProficiencyTest” module simulates single-sentence or dialogue exercises in the HSKlistening test.
The textbook is suitable for learners who have completed DevelopingChinese (3rd Edition) Intermediate Listening Course (Ⅰ) or equivalent intermediate Chinese textbooks and havereached the entry-level of intermediate Chinese.
The textbook consists of 28 lessons in total, and eachlesson is suggested to finish in 2 class hours. The textbook is divided intotwo parts: “Exercises and Activities” and “Texts and Answers”, which can beused in conjunction during teaching.
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