Unit 1
Topic: Dealing with cultural differences and getting used to the local customs

Grammar: the “把” sentence, the adverbs “更” and “最” used to express comparisons, separable disyllabic verbs and the construction “一边…, 一边…”

Unit 2

Topic: The traditional Chinese festival – Mid-Autumn Festival & chinese gift giving customs
Grammar: Using the verb “有/没有” to express comparisons, the rhetorical question, sentences containing a series of verbs and “上/开” as the resultative complements

  Unit 3
Topic: “modesty” as a worthy trait in the Chinese culture
Grammar: Sentences indicating existence or emergence, the reduplication of adjectives, the structural particle “地” and the “把” sentences

 Unit 4
Topic: the recreational activities of Beijing residents

Grammar: sentences indicating existence or emergence, “了” indicating a change of situation, the complement of state and the construction “又…又…”

  Unit 5
Topic: general information about China such as its size and population
Grammar: Enumeration of the numbers over 10,000, approximate numbers, pivotal sentences and the construction “只要…就…”

Unit 6
Topic: the different cultural views on privacy

Grammar: Structural particles “的、地、得”, summary of the “把” sentence and the adverbs “就” and “还”

  Unit 7
Topic: Environmental issues
Grammar: Potential complement, extended use of “出来”, the reduplication of nouns, measure words and numeral-measure word phrases and the construction “既…又…”

 Unit 8
Topic: A boat tour of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River

Grammar: Sentences with a subject-predicate phrase as the predicate, interrogative pronouns of indefinite denotation, “着” and “住” as the resultative complements and the subjectless sentence  

Unit 9
Topic: Generation gap and different ideas on consumption

Grammar: Interrogative pronouns of general denotation, fractions, percentages and multiples, the construction “一…也/都+没/不…” and the construction “就是…也…”

 Unit 10
Topic: The distinct features of different regions in China

Grammar: Potential complement, extended use of “起来”, the construction “一…就…” and the construction “除了…以外, 还/都/也…”

Unit 11
Topic: Who is going to pay the bill

Grammar: The extended use of “下去”, interrogative pronouns of general denotation, making comparisons by using the preposition “比”

 Unit 12
Topic: Chinese wedding customs

Grammar: Types of complements, flexible uses of interrogative pronouns and the adverbs “再” and “又”