Developing Chinese (3^rd Edition) is a set of systematic Chinese language teaching materials for adults that embodies the teaching concept of “development” and adopts the model of “integrating comprehensive language ability cultivation with specialized language skills training”, which can be divides into three levels (elementary, intermediate and advanced) and six series (comprehensive, speaking, listening, reading, writing and elementary reading and writing), with a total of 28 volumes.

Developing Chinese (3rd Edition) Intermediate Listening Course (Ⅱ) is a listening textbook in the Developing Chinese series, suitable for learners who have completed Developing Chinese Intermediate Listening Course (Ⅰ) or equivalent elementary Chinese textbooks and have reached the entry-level of intermediate Chinese. With the aim of improving learners’ ability to comprehend intermediate-level Chinese, this textbook consists of two volumes: “Exercises and Activities” and “Texts and Answers”, totaling 28 lessons. The content of the texts is closely linked to real life, and some involve cross-cultural communication, such as discussions on how to buy books online, how to address strangers, as well as accounts of social issues, scientific knowledge, and life stories. Each lesson is composed of three parts: Pre-task, While-task, and Post-task. In Pre-task, the “Free Talk” section is designed for full warm-up, activating background knowledge and removing language barriers to increase the proportion of content that can be understood. In While-task, through exercises that progress from easy to difficult, learners are guided to use correct listening strategies and gradually achieve comprehension of the texts. Post-task deepens the content and focuses on language forms, including discussions on in-class topics or after-class surveys, as well as consolidation exercises for the language knowledge learned in the lesson. After completing this textbook, learners will be able to grasp the main content and viewpoints of familiar conversations or speeches, identify the main content and key information in dialogues or conversations within specific materials, and understand the speakers’ intentions, comprehend the general meaning of narrative and argumentative discourses at the intermediate entry level, roughly understand longer stories on familiar topics, and conduct general communication with native Chinese speakers on common topics.

· Centering on carefully designed listening materials, it conducts thorough listening training in a structured and hierarchical manner.

· Enhances listening practice intensity by combining full-text listening, segmented listening, and sentence-by-sentence listening, as well as integrating audio listening with teacher-led reading.

· Integrates listening and speaking, extending teaching content to real-life scenarios.

· Combines listening training with exam preparation, seeing that the “Language Proficiency Test” module simulates single-sentence or dialogue exercises in the HSK listening test.

The textbook is suitable for learners who have completed Developing Chinese (3rd Edition) Intermediate Listening Course (Ⅰ) or equivalent intermediate Chinese textbooks and have reached the entry-level of intermediate Chinese.

The textbook consists of 28 lessons in total, and each lesson is suggested to finish in 2 class hours. The textbook is divided into two parts: “Exercises and Activities” and “Texts and Answers”, which can be used in conjunction during teaching.