The main features of "Short, Plain and Quick Chinese: Elementary Spoken Chinese 1" are: 1. Practicality: the main teaching content is the most commonly used and urgently needed communicative topic in students' daily life, emphasizing on training students' verbal communication skills of listening and speaking; 2. Conciseness: Choose the simplest and as simple basic sentence patterns and expressions as possible, which is not only easy for teachers to explain, but also conducive to students' understanding, induction, memory and application. 3. Integrity: highlight the integrity of syntax to cultivate students' ability to use complete sentences to express correctly; 4. Controllability: The number of vocabulary, grammar, length, and sentence length can be restricted in a controlled manner, and distributed more evenly in each part of each lesson, so as to meet the cognitive ability and Practical acceptability; 5. Repeatability: pay attention to improving the recurrence rate of the input language information; 6. Progressiveness: arrange grammar items from easy to difficult, from simple to complex. Try to make the sequences that are related before and after related to each other.