Real-Life Practice of Elementary Chinese

Introduction:

•  The Reasons for Compiling This Textbook?

This textbook is designed primarily for beginners whose native language is English.

In recent years, there has been a rise in the number of short-term students from western countries. According to the statistics of American Institute of International Education in 2002, 50% of American students abroad were short-term students. These students were mostly beginners. Not only does the book aim at communication success of CFL students in China, but also lays a stable foundation for their long-term learning of the language.

The textbook has twenty units. If one has four hours of class every day, five days a week, this book can be used for at least a month. In addition, the book can be used as a supplement to other textbooks for beginners.

•  Specific Features

•  Systematic Pronunciation Practice

Pronunciation is a key to CFL learning and communication success outside classroom. Accordingly, Unit one has a systematic introduction of pinyin. From unit four on, every unit's pronunciation exercise is designed as a dialogue to promote communicative learning.

•  interesting Content for Students

to attract Western students, the content is mainly based on the needs of their daily lives. Meanwhile, the psychological and cultural habits and personal factors of Western students are taken into consideration to arrange the sequence of texts and content. Each unit is also accompanied with many real-life photos.

•  Exercises

Memorizing sentence patterns alone is far from adequate in meeting the communication challenge in reality. Therefore exercises in each unit include the practice of dialogues without students looking at the textbook, questions and answers about students'daily, as well as dialogues about real-life photos.

•  User-Friendly Features for Adult learners

•  Children and adults learn a language in remarkably different ways. The latter have developed a capacity of logical thinking. Accordingly, the sequence of new words in each unit follows a logical order: either by association of meaning or parts of speech or both.

Each unit is also divided into two or three dialogues.

Textbook 1 Price: US$ 27.95