ABSTRACT
Perform Suzhou has been developed to help you raise your level of sophistication in interacting with the local people while staying and studying in Suzhou. As the core material for the spoken development course at the intermediate and high levels, Perform Suzhou adopts the approach of the particular with community-specific and contextually-defined performances. Performance is the key concept in Perform Suzhou. A performance is a communicative event situated in a particular time and place with specified roles for the people directly engaged in the event and other people, either present or absent, who influence the event. By deliberately practicing the carefully selected performance scripts presented in this material and following the learning procedure we suggest, you are expected to:
