Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Chinese, Premium Second Edition

Preface
I 1 Pronouns · Simple sentence structure · Nations and nationalities
2 The verb (I) to have · Family
3 Questions with · Fruits
4 Adverbs and · Food
5 Sentences with a verbal predicate · Time words and daily activities
Review 1 Lessons 1–5
II 6 Questions with an interrogative pronoun · Beverages
7 Numbers 1–100 · Arithmetic expressions
8 Sentences with a nominal predicate · Expressing age · Telling time
9 Years, months, dates, days of the week · Expressing dates
10 Numeral measure words · Demonstratives with a numeral measure word · Clothing · Verbs for put on/wear
Review 2 Lessons 6–10
III 11 Sentences with an adjectival predicate · Elliptical questions with · Greetings and descriptions
12 Affirmative-negative questions · Moods and tastes
13 Alternative questions · Occupations
14 Attributives · Demonstratives and noun phrases · The school
15 The de phrase · Questions with ba · Colors and more clothing
Review 3 Lessons 11–15
IV 16 The verb (II) indicating existence · More measure words · The classroom
17 Location words · Verbs indicating existence
18 Verb reduplication · Tag questions with · Activities and chores
19 The complement of state · Classroom activities
20 Sentences with subject-predicate as predicate · Adjective reduplication · Parts of the body
Review 4 Lessons 16–20
V 21 Pivotal sentences · Sentences with double objects · Entertainment
22 Prepositional phrases with · Public places
23 Adverbials · Sentences with serial verb phrases · Daily Routines
24 Auxiliary verbs (I) · Sports and games
25 Events that are going to take place · Future plans
Review 5 Lessons 21–25
VI 26 The sentence-final particle · Shopping
27 The perfective particle · Expressing completed actions
28 The sentence-final particle · Auxiliary verbs (II) · Weather conditions
29 Comparative constructions · Quantity complement · Making comparisons
30 The progressive aspect of an action · Expressing actions in progress
Review 6 Lessons 26–30
English-Chinese glossary
Chinese (Pinyin)–English glossary
Answer key
Translations of Do you know?