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Integrated Chinese: Level 1, Part 1 Workbook
Cheng & Tsui's best-loved Chinese textbook series is new, revised, and better than ever! The third edition of the Integrated Chinese workbook has been updated to meet the needs of today's students with a new, clearer, user-friendly design, updated vocabulary, more communicative tasks and open-ended exercises, and more authentic materials throughout.
This workbook provides graduated individual practice for the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. For maximum teaching flexibility, each lesson is divided into two parts corresponding to the two sections of the lesson in the textbook. Recordings for listening exercises are available on the Integrated Chinese audio CDs.
The third edition workbook includes many spoken and written exercises that simulate daily life with topics and themes that are relevant and personal to each student. Revised and new exercises reflect the language used in real life and build skills students need to communicate in today's rapidly changing world.
The Integrated Chinese series is a two-year course that includes textbooks, workbooks, character workbooks, audio CDs, multimedia resources, and teacher resources. Student materials are available in both simplified and traditional character versions. With its emphasis on practicing a broad range of written and verbal communication skills and building cultural understanding, Integrated Chinese is ideally suited for students who want a comprehensive grounding in the Chinese language.
This workbook provides graduated individual practice for the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. For maximum teaching flexibility, each lesson is divided into two parts corresponding to the two sections of the lesson in the textbook. Recordings for listening exercises are available on the Integrated Chinese audio CDs.
The third edition workbook includes many spoken and written exercises that simulate daily life with topics and themes that are relevant and personal to each student. Revised and new exercises reflect the language used in real life and build skills students need to communicate in today's rapidly changing world.
The Integrated Chinese series is a two-year course that includes textbooks, workbooks, character workbooks, audio CDs, multimedia resources, and teacher resources. Student materials are available in both simplified and traditional character versions. With its emphasis on practicing a broad range of written and verbal communication skills and building cultural understanding, Integrated Chinese is ideally suited for students who want a comprehensive grounding in the Chinese language.
184 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1999
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June 22, 2021
This a great source for learning Mandarin Chinese. However it is a classroom-based textbook and is designed as such. Each chapter is a specific lesson designed for partner dialogue practice drills, vocabulary lists, exercises for reading comprehension, grammar lessons, and cultural highlight lessons. Topics of each chapter include greetings, family, dates & times, hobbies, visiting friends, making appointments, studying Chinese, school life, shopping, transportation.
The book starts with an introduction (tones, pronunciation), an overview of the Chinese writing system, common Chinese radicals, stroke order, and useful expressions in a classroom setting (How are you, teacher? Open your book, Please repeat after me, etc.). In the back there is a vocabulary index, grammar index, and index on simplified characters.
The authors show the 6 categories of how Chinese characters are developed:
1. Pictographs, pictographic characters
2. Self-explanatory characters
3. Associative compounds
4. Pictophonetic characters (with one element indicating meaning and the other sound)
5. Mutually explanatory characters
6. Phonetic loan characters
I would suggest this even for someone who does self-study. There is an audio CD (which I don't have) and this addresses unaspirated/aspirated stops, nasals, fricatives, voiced continuants, and monosyballic/bisyballic sounds. All words are accompanied with the Pinyin transliteration and that is helpful. Thanks!
The book starts with an introduction (tones, pronunciation), an overview of the Chinese writing system, common Chinese radicals, stroke order, and useful expressions in a classroom setting (How are you, teacher? Open your book, Please repeat after me, etc.). In the back there is a vocabulary index, grammar index, and index on simplified characters.
The authors show the 6 categories of how Chinese characters are developed:
1. Pictographs, pictographic characters
2. Self-explanatory characters
3. Associative compounds
4. Pictophonetic characters (with one element indicating meaning and the other sound)
5. Mutually explanatory characters
6. Phonetic loan characters
I would suggest this even for someone who does self-study. There is an audio CD (which I don't have) and this addresses unaspirated/aspirated stops, nasals, fricatives, voiced continuants, and monosyballic/bisyballic sounds. All words are accompanied with the Pinyin transliteration and that is helpful. Thanks!
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