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Учебник для развития речи для студентов достигших HSK6. Все тексты представлены в 2-х вариантах: в полных иероглифах и упрощенных.
На английском языке написано предисловие, в поурочных списках слов в полных и упрощенных иероглифах есть перевод на английский язык. Примеры предложений в комментариях к тексту также переведены на английский. Фоормулировки заданий записаны только упрощенными иероглифами.
Speaking Out: Issues and Controversies 各抒己见 is an advanced Chinese language textbook that explores topics such as human nature, moral values, mass consumption, Western influences, and technological innovation. In presenting subjects that reflect major concerns in contemporary China, the book invites students to reflect upon the forces shaping modern Chinese society.
This textbook presents ten lessons in five units entitled “Constancy and Change,” “Joy and Sorrow,” “Right and Wrong,” “Chinese Tradition and Western Influence,” and “New and Old.” These pairs of opposites conjure up an ever-changing world of ebb and flow, a world that stimulates learners’ imaginations and arouses their enthusiasm for open dialogue and lively discussion.
Concise in language and with lessons in both simplified and traditional characters, the textbook is a valuable aid for university students interested in passing the HSK Level VI or attaining ACTFL advanced-level proficiency.
Введение
In North America, there is a dearth of instructional material for advanced Chinese language students. To create their course packs, instructors often assemble material from a hodgepodge of sources, including the few advanced Chinese language textbooks currently available. Although these textbooks typically provide useful background material on Chinese culture and society, they do not directly address pressing contemporary concerns. Furthermore, most advanced textbooks emphasize reading, listening and writing over speaking.
It was against this background that we compiled Speaking Out: Issues and Controversies.
Nine of the ten lesson essays in this textbook center around a contemporary social or cultural topic. We recognize that China is changing so rapidly that any textbook that deals with contemporary issues is bound to become dated in some respects eventually. With that in mind, we tried our best to include essays that highlight either timeless ethical or moral questions (for example, the nature of human goodness, the conflict between altruism and selfishness) or social and cultural phenomena which are likely to persist and remain relevant for some time to come (for example, mass consumption and the tension between traditional and Western values).
This textbook’s emphasis on speaking also distinguishes it from other advanced textbooks currently in use. Debate exercises are an essential feature of this book. These exercises teach students how to present convincing arguments and engage debate opponents in Chinese. They provide questions or hints for both sides to consider in formulating their arguments. Three lessons give examples of how to defend a position; five lessons present examples of how to argue both sides of an issue. In our fourth-year Chinese course at the University of Toronto, the debates have been the activities that our students have most welcomed and enjoyed.
This textbook could serve equally well as either a primary or a supplementary textbook at the university level. In North America, a fourth-year Chinese language course typically has three or four hours of instruction per week, three hours in a fifteen-week semester or four hours in a twelve-week semester. The ten lessons of this textbook, each of which takes roughly four hours to complete, could therefore serve as the primary instructional material in either. Alternatively, each lesson could supplement other instructional material. It is our hope that this textbook will not only contribute to students’ understandings of the “whys” and “hows” of China’s economic transformation, but also serve as a stimulus to open dialogue and lively discussion.