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Usage Advice: This set of textbooks is designed for developing Chinese reading skills, totaling six volumes to meet the needs of absolute beginners or learners at the intermediate and advanced levels. This is the third volume, suitable for intermediate-level learners of Chinese language or those who have already learned the second volume or the words of HSK Level 3. This book is composed of 12 lessons. The recommended teaching time for each lesson is 4-5class hours.

Level: Intermediate

College, Adults

Targeted at the training of reading skills of Chinese learners, this book is designed and compiled for the difficulties in Chinese reading for Chinese learners and the need to improve their reading skills, highlighting the characteristics of reading textbooks, and helping students improve their Chinese reading skills through specific training. It provides abundant useful learning and practice materials to improve learners' reading skills and develop teachers' reading skills training.


About the Author
Su Yingxia is Dean and Professor of the College of Intensive Chinese Training, Beijing Language and Culture University. She won the second prize in the Essential Teaching Skills Competition in the Literature and History Group for Young Teachers in Beijing, and got the title of "Beijing Language and Culture University Prominent Teacher". Her research areas include teaching Chinese vocabulary and grammar to non-native speakers and the compilation of Chinese textbooks.

Features of the textbook:(1) Clear positioning and distinctive characteristics. This textbook takes reading skills training as the core,attaches importance to the cultivation of reading comprehension skills, and basically does not design language output exercises such as oral expressions.(2) Abundant materials for learning and practicing. The first and second volumes of the textbooks are the beginningstage of reading, which focus on the learning of characters and theaccumulation of vocabulary, supplemented by sentence and paragraph reading, soas to lay a foundation for further reading training. Starting from Volume 3,each lesson has three major sections: “Knowledge Bank”, “Skills Training” and“Reading Practice”, and provides the corresponding reading materials for closereading, skimming and checking, which can fully meet the needs of languageknowledge accumulation, reading skills training and reading practice forstudents to improve their Chinese reading ability. (3) Diverse genres and themes. In orderto make learners familiar with Chinese reading materials of different genresand themes, this textbook pays attention to the diversification in theselection of text genres and themes. The genre includes narration, practical writing, and argumentative writing and so on. The themes involve learning,life, nature, science and technology, society and culture and so on. In the"Live Reading" section, it also provides students with signboards,posters, notes, online posts and other text materials that can be seen everywhere in daily life. (4) Cleartraining hierarchy. The style design of the textbook attaches importance to the scientificity and hierarchy of skills training, and develops progressively from knowledge to skill and then to practice. Reading guide is designed in the text part, and targeted reading comprehension exercises are designed for each step,which are convenient for teachers and students to use.

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