姚保慧Yao Baohui

There are 15 units in this textbook comprising different topics. There are some new chapters in this 2015 printing and the English in them needs a good edit. The chapters carried over from the previous edition(s) are well polished but the quality of grammar in some of the new ones is quite poor and it is embarrassing to use the material in class. My students also find this textbook too difficult even though they have completed books 1 and 2 in the series. It is quite a step up and this third book is less geared towards use both inside and outside the classroom. There is an appendix which includes "useful functional patterns" but it is not something students are confronted with weekly and so they take no notice. One the whole I would not recommend using this just because your students have already finished books 1 and 2.… (mere)