Everyday
Chinese—Chinese Course Book for Middle Schools in Thailand is a series of
country-specific textbooks designed for middle schools in Thailand. In
accordance with the “Standards for Middle School Chinese Teaching” in Thailand,
this series has been designed along three lines—communicative functions,
linguistic structures, and cultural contents, and has incorporated the
vocabulary, grammar points, functions and topics in the HSK Guideline. It is
suitable for Thai students from first year in junior high to last year in
senior high. Novice learners will reach the level of HSK 4 after learning this
series.
This is Book 7 in the
series, with 30 lessons, covering 24 communicative tasks, 31 grammar points and
84 new words. There are altogether five units, focusing on five topics—“school
life”, “after-class activities”, “shopping”, “leisure and entertainment”, and
“travel experiences”; each unit contains six lessons—three “communicative
texts”, one “reading and narration” lesson, one “expansion and communication”
lesson, and one “review and culture” lesson. At the end of the book is a test
paper.
This book is characterized
by simple, interesting and practical content, beautiful, concise and colorful
design, and abundant supportive resources (including courseware, images,
audios, videos, etc.). Learners can scan the QR code to listen to the
recordings on the back cover or download the audio files.
Zhu Ruiping is the executive dean of
College of Chinese Language and Culture, Beijing Normal University, and the
deputy executive director of Beijing Center for International Chinese
Education, whose research interests include Chinese philology, international
Chinese education, collation of ancient books, and Chinese culture, etc. Mr.
Zhu has published more than 40 academic papers, more than one million Chinese
characters of edited works, and more than 300,000 Chinese characters of
monographs. He has hosted or participated in several big national and
international projects.
Feng
Liping, professor in the College of Chinese Language and Culture, Beijing
Normal University, mainly engages in the studies of Chinese language cognition
and L2 Chinese learning and teaching, and has hosted several research projects
sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Hanban.