Both students and teachers appreciate this unprecedented collection of ready-to-use games, songs, craft projects, delightfully illustrated student worksheets and teacher-guided activities to help elementary age Chinese language learners. This resource contains hundreds of activity pages organized into 12 monthly sections. Themes include introduction, greetings, numbers, family, telling time, body parts, food, colors, school, hobbies, animals, weather and feelings.
Volumes 1 and 2 (second edition)
Retained most of the content in the first edition of Volumes 1 and 2 and added new content. Significant improvements include:
- Revised teacher notes that provide useful teaching strategies and suggestions;
- Exciting new activities, worksheets, songs and rhymes to complement the most popular ones from the first edition, such as adding a new song and a rhyme for the 12 zodiac animals, activities on making food bowls and plates, and including a times table for advanced learners;
- Updated content to reflect current culture, such as replacing the flip phone activity with a smartphone, replacing Yao Ming with Jeremy Lin, adding Youyou Tu and updating Elaine Chao to the lesson about famous Chinese women;
- Additional Chinese New Year worksheets, projects and songs that students will love;
- New project samples of recent student work.
- Cross references to contents in our upcoming Volumes 3 and 4 that will provide teachers with an abundance of additional materials about related themes;
Vol. 3 and 4 are new books (first edition). No content from the first 2 volumes is used in these two volumes. Volumes 3 and 4 contain new content:
- Pre-Literacy - This section introduces the initials and finals in pinyin and provides pinyin and vocabulary practice for our young learners;
- Thematic Units - These units are relevant to the topics in Volumes 1 and 2. They relate to themes such as school, life cycles, the environment, etc. Each unit provides new vocabulary and related activities in the same format, but extends these topics in a way that allows students to communicate more about each one;
- STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) Projects - Our new STEAM section provides innovative ways to tie in STEAM with the Chinese culture/language experience;
- Hot Topics - This section provides reading passages that address current topics of interest in China, such as the Belt and Road Initiative, bike sharing and Chunyun (春运);
- Songs, tongue twisters, Tang poems, riddles, miniskirts and more.
E-books for each volume are available for purchase.
- E-books are valid for one year
- E-books are not meant to be printed
- Printing is limited to two pages
- Watermarks will occur during the printing
- Copy and paste function is disabled
- No credit will be provided once the codes are redeemed
Table of Contents 目录:
V1 V2 V3 V4
Paperback, Simplified or Traditional Chinese characters, Pinyin and English, 320 pages/book, 11"x8.5"
