This is Volume Two of Very Good: Spoken Chinese for Beginners series. In coherence with Volume One, this volume organizes the texts based on the school life with the four characters running through the whole book. Twelve topics such as offering suggestions, talking about recent plans, the city flower, the national flower, change, cross-culture communication (visiting a Chinese middle school), ordering dishes, transportation, holidays, weather, hope, etc., are provided in humorous language. The exercise emphasizes the practice of the four language skills, with particular focus on the students' oral skill development.
After completing finishing this volume, the students will achieve the mastery of 104 sentence patterns, 634 words and be able to conduct simple daily conversations in Chinese.
The other authors are all experienced teachers of TCFL from Peking University.
