How the Course Is Organized
   The subtitle of this course "A Modular Approach" refers to overall organization of the materials into MODULES which focus on particular situations or language topics and which allow a certain amount of choice as to what is taught and in what order. To highlight equally significant features of the course the subtitle could just as well have been "A Situational Approach" "A Taped-Input Approach" or "A Communicative Approach."
Ten situational modules form the core of the course:

Talking about who you are and where you are from.
Talking about your background family studies and occupation and about your visit to China.
Making purchases and changing money.
Asking directions in a city or in a building.
Taking buses taxis trains and planes including finding out schedule information buying tickets and making reservations.
Arranging a business meeting nr a
social get-together changing the time of an appointment and declining an invitation.
Talking about families relationships between people cultural roles in traditional society and cultural trends in modern society.
Making travel arrangements and visiting a kindergarten the Great Wall the Ming Tombs a commune and a factory.
Talking about daily life in Beijing street committees leisure activities traffic and transportation buying and rationing housing.
Talking about government and party policy changes described in newspapers: the educational system. agricultural policy international policy ideological policy and policy in the arts.

Each core module consists of tapes a student textbook and a workbook.