Discovering Chinese series is for the beginning young adult with no prior exposure to Chinese. This 4-volume, 48-lesson curriculum builds student’s understanding of Chinese language and culture with themes and subjects that are relevant to their daily lives.
Through 12 lessons per volume, students will build up their language skills to SAT 2 level, while becoming acquainted with relevant Chinese cultural lessons such as idioms, origins of Chinese characters, and typing Chinese on computers. High-quality situational illustrations and online lessons make learning fun and effective, while frequent recycling of previously-learned material, both within volumes and between series, ensures long-term language retention.
Animated Lessons Online: Students can review what they learned in the classroom, play additional exercises and watch level-appropriate stories, making learning Chinese relevant and fun! In addition, parents can participate in the learning progress at home.
Supportive Teacher/Parent’s Guide: Focusing on interpersonal, interpretational, and presentational skills, the teacher’s guide includes task-based assessments for lesson planning and goal setting.
Additional Learning Tools: Flash cards, other level-appropriate story CD-ROMs, supplementary books and online stories further facilitate and enhance Chinese language and cultural knowledge.
Volume 1 contains 12 lessons with the following features:
- A spiral-up, step-by-step approach that reinforces and builds upon material from previous lessons, and emphasizes speaking and comprehension.
- A comprehensive selection of characters and sentence patterns.
- Highly-relevant topics with daily, useful vocabulary, covering school, family, daily life, sports, etc.
- Vivid illustrations, detailed cultural and grammatical introductions.
Chapters:
1. Hello!
2. What Is Your Name?
3. How Old Are You?
4. What Is Your Nationality?
5. I Go To Dahua Elementary School
6. I Love My Family
7. Where Do You Live?
8. What Date Is Today?
9. What Day Is It Today?
10. What Is in The Backpack?
11. I Like Fruits?
12. What Do You Want To Eat?
