Today's World II - Select Readings of Chinese Spotlight News [Textbook+Workbook]. ISBN: 9787301279731 9781681940076

Format: textbook + workbook
English Title: Today's World II - Select Readings of Chinese Spotlight News
Chinese Title: 今日世界面面观 汉语焦点新闻选读 (下册)
ISBN-13: 9787301279731/9781681940076
Author: WANG, Yong (王颖)
Binding: softcover
Pages: 232
Shipping Weight: 650g
Size: 210mm x 285mm
Language: simplified Chinese, pinyin, English
Year of Publication: 2017
Publisher: Peking University Press (北京大学出版社)

Today's World: Select Readings of Chinese Spotlight News
This is a set of books designed for a newspaper reading class offered by Chinese programs in the United States and American study-abroad language programs within China. The whole set includes two volumes; each volume contains eight topics, and each topic has a main text and a supplementary text, discussions, new words, and explanations of morphemes, function words and sentence patterns.

In material selection and content, this set of books also grasps long-lasting hot topics such as environmental pollution, economics, cultures, social events, sports, technology. Therefore it is highly useful for deep and extensive discussion and study both inside and outside the classroom. 

Target users of Today's World are students who have completed two and half years of Chinese (or those who have completed the first semester of third-year Chinese) in a regular Chinese program from an American or any other English-speaking university.

According to ACTFL (the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages):
- Today's World Volume 1 is suitable for intermediate-high to advanced-low learners;
- Today's World Volume 2 is suitable for advanced-mid to advanced-high learners.

Please note:
audios are provided by scanning the QR codes in the lessons.