This is a major language book in the Western Medicine subseries, including a total of 15 lessons divided according to the implicit topics and medical subjects corresponding to the “Listening and Speaking” course book. Each lesson is composed of six parts—“Learning objectives”, “Warming-up activities”, “Preparations for this lesson”, “Texts and new words”, “Post-reading activities” and “Learning of specific language skills”. Each lesson includes three texts increasing in difficulty and showing different emphases; the new words are mainly medical terms which keep appearing in the book; the part of specific language skills focuses on the learning of word-building rules of medical terms and some common sentence patterns. The book reveals the features of medical Chinese teaching from different aspects.
This is a main course book of "Chinese for Traditional Chinese Medicine". It is composed of 6 chapters, namely "Fundamental Theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine", "Basic Diagnostics in Traditional Chinese Medicine", "Basic Knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicines", "Basic Knowledge of Acupuncture and Moxibustion", "Basic Knowledge of Health Preservation in Traditional Chinese Medicine" and "Comprehensive Theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine", each of which has 5 lessons, totaling 30 lessons. All the lessons share the same structure, including such parts as "Learning objectives", "Review", "Warm-up", "Browse through the text and fill in the blanks", "Learn and do exercises on the new words", "Learn and do exercises on the TCM terms/sentence patterns/knowledge", "Learn the text", "Retell the text", "Classroom discussion", "Extended reading", "Traditional Chinese medicine in daily life" and "Summary". Suggestions regarding the duration of each section and the use of the book are provided at the very beginning of the book.