This series of textbooks is designed for short-term students of Chinese, both in China and abroad. It addresses three levels of study---fundamental, intermediate and advanced. Each level has a listening and speaking book and a reading and writing book. These six books are connected through topics, themes and vocabulary of increasing levels of difficulty, and thus are linked as a whole, giving students a full range of training. This book is the supplementary textbook for the intermediate level. It encourages students to talk and discuss the topics of family life and society discussed in the reading and writing book. Each lesson contains a Warm-up section before the main text which introduces the topic for discussion, as well as some speaking and listening exercises that are connected to and complementary to each other.
