Preface
Academic Committee
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Unit Eleven:"Haven''t We met before?"
似曾相识
Getting to know people better
1:Greetings and introductions:Review and expansion
FYI Personal relationships in China:Welcome to guanxi关系/關係
FYI Titles galore
GRAMMAR BlTS A liale lesson on 了/e
2:Building a relationship by exchanging personal details
FYI Getting personal
FYI "Spelling" in Chinese
3:Haking a brief narrative statement about yourself
●Skills and interests
●Sports
GRAMMAR BITS How an action is performed
FYI "Arf, arf meow,meow" now heard increasingly in China
4:Asking for and providing information about a third party
5:Giving and deflecting compliments
6:Taking your Ieave:Review and expansion
●Unit Rap
7:Reading and writing
●Reading familiar sentences in Chinese characters
GRAMMAR BITS The many faces of de in Chinese
●Reading real-life texts
Jackie Chan entry on baldu.com
●Learning to write characters
客,气/氣,答,问/問,题/題,写/寫,谈/談,找,新,
爱/愛,老,师/師,学/學,朋,友,恭,发/發,财/財
●Filling out a form
CULTURAL BITS Physical characteristics and social expectations
RECAP
●Grammar
Fiuing/eintoyourlanguage·de,de,de,andmorede
●Vocabulary
●Checklist of "can do" statements
Unit Twelve:"Food is fundamental"
民以食为天
Shopping for food
1:Setting up a food-shopping excursion
FYI Food shopping in China
2:Naming different kinds of fruit
GRAMMAR BITS Commenting on the performance of an action:Review and expansion
3:Naming food items,flavors,and other characteristics of food
●Flavors.
●Other qualities
●Categories of food
4:Discussing vegetables
GRAMMAR BITS的the little modifier that could:Review and expansion
5:Putting together a meal
6:Shopping for food in a supermarket
FYI Five foods to live by
●Unit Rap
7:Reading and writing
GRAMMAR BITS More on coverbs
●Reading familiar sentences in Chinese characters
GRAMMAR BITS Yet another coverb-把
●Reading real-life texts
Supermarket ads
●Learning to write characters
果,菜,香,蕉,瓜,桃,酸,甜,苦,辣,蔬,绿/綠,
色,肉,牛,猪/豬,鸡/雞,鱼/魚,鲜/鮮,味,超,市
●Haking a shopping list
CULTURAL BITS Shopping for food
RECAP
●Grammar
Two kinds of de·More on coverbs:Double-duty verbs·The coverb把6古
●Vocabulary
●Checklist of“can do”statements
Unit Thirteen:"A simple,home-cooked meal"
家常便饭
Eating at the home ofa friend
1:Offering and accepting invitations
FYI Paying for a meal
GRAMMAR BITS Verb+measure word+object
GRAMMAR BITS G#i给/给:Review and expansion
FYI Gift-giving-song/Two送礼物/送禮物
2:Declining an invitation
3:Arriving at someone''s home and starting a meal
FYI What to expect in a home-Cooked Chinese meal
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Unit Fourteen: "A tasty meal at good price"
Unit Sixteen: "Study hard and improve day by day"
Unit Seventeen: "East, west, home is best"
Unit Nineteen: "Boundless as the sea and sky"
Unit Twenty: "Live to old age; learn to old age"
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