This is the traditional Chinese characters version of Book 7 of Easy Steps to Chinese, a series of Chinese textbooks for middle school students who are non-native speakers of Chinese. The book is full-color printed and includes an MP3 CD.
The book is composed of five units, each with three lessons, encompassing such everyday topics as “college application, students’ union election, summer jobs”, "family, film, differences between Chinese and Western cultures”, "the advantages and disadvantages of the Internet, technologies and life, food and drinks”, "Hangzhou, entertainment, fast food”, "education, lifestyle, environment protection”. In each lesson, there are two texts focusing on middle school students’ real life. It has brief explanations of grammatical points and abundant exercises such as warming-up exercise, speaking exercise, writing exercise, reading comprehension, etc.

Yamin Ma, B.A. in English Language and Literature, and M.A. in Education, is currently a Chinese teacher in Island School, Hong Kong. Ma has gained years of experience in teaching Chinese as a foreign language and she actively keeps up with the trends of AP Chinese Test in U.S. and the IB Chinese Test in Europe. Her research covers English language teaching, Chinese language teaching and educational psychology. She has read and published a number of papers in international conferences.