China Focus is a set of comprehensive Chinese teaching materials specially designed for the Chinese audiovisual-speaking course. The video clips are extracted from contemporary Chinese social hot issues, feature programs, news, sitcoms, documentaries, talk shows, interviews, entertainment programs, films and TV plays, micro films, advertisements, songs, etc. Using abundant online video resources, it builds a natural-language-based classroom teaching environment, giving full play to the Chinese audiovisual-speaking course's function of being a window to the society, and promoting the integration of language learning and cultural understanding.
This set of materials is divided into six levels, each of which is composed of several themes, encompassing society, economy, culture, education, life, love, and art. Several course modules are designed under each theme. The intermediate level, volume 2, includes 10 volumes, each taking 4 class hours and covering the communication functions and scenes commonly used in the elementary level, intermediate level and advanced level. Teachers can develop a personalized assortment of teaching materials based on the themes they are interested in, which can either be independently used in an audiovisual-speaking course, or as exercise materials in a comprehensive class, speaking class, listening class and other classes.
《中国微镜头》是一套专门针对汉语视听类课程设计的立体化综合语言教材。视听素材选自当代中国社会热点、专题片、新闻、生活情景剧、访谈、娱乐节目、微电影、广告、歌曲等内容，利用丰富的线上视频资源，为学习者搭建基于自然语言的课堂教学环境。发挥视听说课程的“社会窗口”作用，促进语言学习与文化理解的有机融合。
该系列教材根据视听材料的难度分为6级，涵盖社会、经济、文化、教育、生活、爱情、艺术等多个主题，主题下设若干专题，每个专题独立成册。中级下首批出版10个分册，每册教学容量约4课时，语言方面覆盖初、中、高各级常用交际功能与场景。师生可根据需要自由组合感兴趣的专题内容形成个性化教材，既可用于独立开设的视听课程，也可作为视听教学材料用于综合课、口语课或听力课等课型。
Book Titles:
Culture 文化篇
Travel 旅行篇
Commerce 商贸篇
Vocation 职业篇
Family 家庭篇
Personages 人物篇
Society 社会篇
Art 艺术篇
Cartoons 动漫篇
Variety Shows 综艺篇
By Tao Wang, Paperback, Simplified Chinese characters, 25-33 pages/book, 9.25"x7"
