The second volume has richer themes and is closer to contemporary life. It selects aspects that American high school students are more concerned about and interested in, truly showing the appearance of contemporary China and highlighting the "reality".
The second volume adds 600+ new words based on the 400+ new words in the first volume. After studying the second volume of the textbook, students have mastered more than 1,000 new words. According to the "International Chinese Education Chinese Proficiency Standards", students' Chinese proficiency will be able to reach the elementary Chinese level 2, and they will be able to basically understand simple language materials, conduct effective social communication, and complete topic expressions in daily life, study, work, social interactions, etc.
The practice forms are richer and more comprehensive, focusing on vocabulary practice
Different from the first volume which focuses on pinyin and Chinese character writing exercises, the second volume of teaching materials goes from textbook to exercise book and pays more attention to students' practice of words, sentences, and paragraph expressions.
In the textbook, the major modules are basically the same as those in the first volume. The whole book is divided into 10 lessons, each lesson contains 8 modules: learning objectives, text one (text simplified Chinese, text pinyin, vocabulary list, grammar), text two ( Text, Pinyin, vocabulary list, grammar), I learned it, pass level, vocabulary challenge, reading ladder and cultural corner. The difference from the first volume is that as students’ Chinese proficiency improves, the “Chinese Character Challenge” module becomes It has become a "vocabulary challenge". The main question types include Vocabulary Categorization, Vocabulary Expansion, Imposter Search, Antonyms, Word Search, etc., which are more adaptable. students’ learning needs.
Among the exercise books, the second volume mainly focuses on four major modules, listening, speaking, reading and writing, with more emphasis on chapter reading ability and paragraph expression, that is, exercises.
