New Practical Chinese Reader (3rd Edition) Textbook 1is composed of two preparatory lessons of Introduction to Phonetics and ten main lessons, including rich teaching content and tasks and activities on phonetics, vocabulary, grammar, Chinese characters and culture.

（1）Maintaining the features of the brand：Based on the characteristics of Chinese language teaching and the aim to solve the problem of “Chinese being difficult to learn”, the series sticks to the pedagogical idea of “combining structure, function and culture”. With the teaching of language structures as its basis, the series emphasizes the teaching of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and Chinese characters, and the language points are arranged in a way that strives to be scientific, systematic, progressive and repetitive so that students can master them easily. 

（2）An overall update of the content：The texts are more up-to-date, practical and fun. The texts in Textbook 1 have basically been rewritten, the functions being intensified, the topics more focused and the situations highlighted. As for the selection of new words, common words are paid more attention to and supplementary words are arranged in a theme-based way.

（3）Stimulating independent learning：Two new sections, the pre-lesson “Warm-up” and post-lesson “Self-evaluation”, have been added. Classroom activities are given more emphasis and more communicative and task-based activities are included. Discovery learning and interactive learning are embodied to encourage students to summarize certain linguistic rules on their own.

（4）Intensifying practice and application：The exercises are more pertinent to the language points. In every lesson, there are pronunciation drills, conversation practice, listening and repeating, reading comprehension, task and activity, writing exercise, etc., incorporating training in comprehensive language skills such as listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating and combining mechanical, communicative and task-based exercises in a more organic manner.