Feiyue Intermediate Chinese, a set of two student's textbooks
and oneteacher's book, is intended for English-speaking students in
college and highschool. Feiyue means to fly forward and serves here
as a metaphor for theprogression that will occur in students'
Chinese proficiency levels after activelyworking through the
meticulously designed exercises and activities in
thesetextbooks.
These textbooks have the
following features:Lead-in pictures for each lesson which highlight
their subject matter and thekey words.Each lesson consists of a
dialog and a narrative passage in both simplifiedand traditional
characters.For each new word, in addition to a pinyin tran*ion
and an Englishexplanation, parts of speech and examples of usage
are also provided.Each lesson integrates an array of exercises and
activities in listening,speaking, reading, writing, and typing
Chinese.Character components are illustrated; explanations of
language points aresimple, precise and practical.Pictures and
real-life materials accompany the lessons.SDs in MP3 format are
provided for all texts and listening exercises.