Advanced Chinese Audiovisual-Speaking Course is a multi-dimensional comprehensive language teaching material prepared to meet the urgent demand for intermediate and advanced Chinese audiovisual-speaking materials for front line teaching. It can be used in intermediate and advanced audiovisual-speaking courses, as well as in intermediate and advanced integrated courses, speaking courses, listening courses and other courses as teaching materials.

The course is divided into two volumes, each based on a popular Chinese TV drama series - “A Little Reunion” and “Twenty Your Life On”. The content is basically arranged in the order of the episodes, so that learners can gradually become familiar with the characters and events in the dramas and improve their comprehensive language skills. The courses truly reflect the latest situation of China. Moreover, the videos are dialogues of different scenes of the characters, which are realistic and natural, with a moderate speed of speech and rhythmic intonation. The main dialogue is in Mandarin, with a small amount of slang and colloquialisms, and contains all kinds of commonly used sentences, which can meet the learners’ different communicative needs.

This volume is Advanced Chinese Audiovisual-Speaking Course (Twenty Your Life On), which has 4 major topics: workplace jobs, life conflicts, personal feelings and life decisions. Each topic contains 2 lessons, with a total of 8 lessons. Each lesson contains seven parts: learning objectives, warm-up, pre-class preparation, video and text learning, post-class investigation, comprehensive exercises and activities, and cultural connections, with each lesson equipped with teaching materials and each exercise provided with QR codes, which are convenient for learners to scan the code to watch the video at any time, thus helping learners to make use of the fragmented time to watch the teaching resources repeatedly, and carry out pre-class preparation and post-class review. The appendix of the textbook contains the vocabulary list, video texts, reference answers to exercises, etc., making it easy for learners to retrieve and understand the content of the videos and text information.

Chen Tianxu, Ph.D. of Carnegie Mellon University, USA, is now an associate professor and the head of the international undergraduate department of the College of International Education, Minzu University of China, as well as the deputy director of the Open Research Center for Language Teaching, Cognition and Acquisition. Professor Chen has been engaged in international Chinese language education for many years, and has taught Chinese language in many universities at home and abroad, including Beijing Language and Culture University, University of South Carolina, and Carnegie Mellon University. He has published more than 20 research papers in domestic and international journals, and has participated in the compilation of five textbooks on Chinese as a foreign language, including the textbook Watching the Movie and Learning Chinese - Shower, College Chinese: Listening and Speaking (Volume 2), and Special Chinese for Pre-school in Xinjiang of BLCUP.

This is one of the greatest textbooks among international Chinese audiovisual teaching materials in recent years - a unique set of advanced Chinese audiovisual-speaking teaching materials that lead learners to listen, watch and feel in real scenes, and to appreciate the real social landscape of China while learning.

1. The video materials are both authentic and contemporary.

The video materials of this textbook are extracted from the popular TV dramas in recent years. Learners can really feel the reality of Chinese society in various aspects through two popular TV dramas (urban family education TV drama “A Little Reunion” and urban growth inspirational TV drama “Twenty Your Life On”) in recent years, and learn about the latest situation in China, which will promote learners to learn Chinese language and perceive the Chinese culture.

2. The chosen topics are broad and varied.

The textbook is not confined to a single topic. The first volume covers job hunting, family education, intergenerational concepts and school life, while the second book covers workplace jobs, life conflicts, personal feelings, life decisions, and many other dimensions, which helps learners perceive a diversified and multi-dimensional image of China.

3. The selected language points are typical and cultural.

This textbook is in line with the Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education, and selects vocabulary and language points at level 5 and above, and explains words and common language expressions with cultural significance. Example sentences provide sufficient context to help learners understand and apply the language.

4. The exercises in each section are diverse and discursive.

This course is suitable for most universities in China whose classroom teaching arrangement is 16-18 teaching weeks (32-36 class hours) per semester. Overseas teachers can also freely choose the teaching contents and flexibly arrange the teaching schedule according to the actual needs.

This course is suitable for Chinese learners who meet Level 4 of the Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education.

It is recommended to complete one lesson in 4 class hours, including 2 class hours of audio-visual lessons and 2 class hours of activity lessons.

Each lesson is equipped with teaching courseware; QR code is provided near to each exercise, which is convenient for learners to scan the code to watch the video at any time, thus helping learners to make use of fragmented time to watch the teaching resources repeatedly, and carry out pre- and post-course review; the appendix of the textbooks contains the vocabulary list, video texts, reference answers to exercises, etc., which makes it easy for learners to retrieve and comprehend the contents of the video and the textual information.