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Editor’s Note

I. Editing Concepts
1. The language focuses on the practical, authentic, and functional aspects so students
can use what they’ve learned in everyday life.
2. Comprehensive language ability is the focus, with balanced development of the four
basic language techniques: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
3. The dialogues, sentences, traditional characters, grammatical structures and
their quantity and order
4. The vocabulary words and grammar progress by spiral upward from low to high level
and are very common and usable.
5. Interactive in-class games and task-based activities are used so the language learning
will be natural.
6. The workbook uses a constructive design and advances by steps to consolidate what’s
been learned in an easy way.
7. Reading and writing s traditional
characters. Hanyu Pinyin and simplified traditional characters are also taken
into account.
8. The volumes are tied together by common themes and progress from the narrow to the
broad, suitable for topic-based school teaching.
II. Structure of the Teaching Materials
i. Book 1 includes A, B volume, each volume includes 6 lessons, total had 12 lessons, and
the major sections of each lesson are:
1. Learning core: dialogues, vocabulary words / phrase, traditional characters
(two subsections: recognizing / reading and practicing writing), origins of
traditional characters, and grammatical structures.
2. In-class practice: Includes recognition, reading, and writing practice of the lesson’s
traditional characters, as well as task-based activities, games, and pronunciation review.
3. Workbook: Every lesson includes four types of practice—listening, speaking, reading,
and writing— for take-home or after-class practice.
4. Vocabulary Words / Phrase index: All the vocabulary words of the book as appendix in
the last pages of the book.
ii. Learning contents of Book 1:
1. 156 Vocabulary words / Phrases.

2. 201 Traditional Characters.
3. 40 Sentence patterns / Grammatical structures.
III. Other Resources
1. Taiwanese Culture Units (one is included in each Part A and Part B for a total of two
units in each volume).
2. Activity word cards (attached at the end of the textbook).
3. Please download the audio files (files of lesson texts, vocabulary words / phrases,
grammatical structures, etc. and workbook listening exercises) from the huayuworld
website at www.huayuworld.org/upload/epaper/106/index.html.