Learning Languages - Chinese - Ch. Activities

100 key items of vocabulary covering 8 everyday topics: at home; around town; clothes; parts of the body; the countryside; animals; opposites; useful expressions. Modern teaching methods: flashcards; matching games; memory games; joining exercises; word searches; etc. Review, round-up and tests: a final revision of all the 100 words together. 100 tear-out flashcards: help with whole word recognition.

his fun-filled reference book introduces children to Chinese by presenting familiar words in the context of everyday situations. Playing sports and music, eating at a restaurant, spending time at home--these common activities are entertainingly presented in colorful scenes with every key object labeled in both English and Chinese. It's an ideal learning tool for home or classroom, providing hours of both independent reading pleasure and foreign language sharing with family and friends.

This practice pad provides an enjoyable and motivating way for learners to practise writing Chinese characters. It is in the form of a memo block containing basic instructions, plus 365 numbered sheets: one per day for a year of learning or more than one per day for faster progress! Each sheet presents a single Chinese character in the form currently used, together with its pronunciation and meaning.

Building on the success of Volume 1, A Chinese Character A Day Practice Pad Volume 2 further extends and consolidates the difficult task of memorizing hundreds of unfamiliar Chinese characters. Students can master one character a day by spending only a few minutes of practice time writing it. Designed in the form of a numbered tear-sheet and packaged as a convenient memo block, there are 365 sheets for a year's worth of practice.

Part of Tuttle's best-selling page-a-day line, this new edition teaches useful everyday phrases and words. The sequence of phrases is structured to help you build your vocabulary gradually over the months. Each page includes a Chinese phrase; a short culture note; a brief, interesting fact or tip about Chinese culture; and an on-line audio aspect that features native speakers.

Children will learn everyday foreign language words in a flash with these illustrated cards, featuring art from the popular "Adventures with Nicholas" series. 50 cards teach the words kids need to know: numbers, colours, animals and more...This proven learning activity builds vocabulary, word recognition, memory and confidence. The four-colour, engaging illustrations provide visual clues and the cards are durable to allow for frequent handling.

Whether on a train from Beijing to Shanghai or sitting under a tree in Berkeley, you can be practicing your Chinese with this quick and easy-to-use set of flashcards. Chinese in a Flash Volume 1 has a full range of features to help beginners and intermediate learners through character recognition, vocabulary recognition, revision, and testing. It includes indexes by radical, stroke count, and alphabetically by pinyin romanization.

Chinese in a Flash Volume 2 is an excellent new language learning resource for travellers and those who want to learn Chinese quickly and easily. Following on from Volume 1, it consists of a complete boxed set of flashcards for Chinese character recognition, vocabulary learning and testing. It has a full range of features to help beginners and intermediate learners.

Chinese in a Flash Volume 4 continues to provide more resources for beginning, as well as intermediate learners of Chinese who want to learn the language quickly and easily. This unique set of flashcards enables learners to acquire more Chinese words and their derivatives in an easy-to-use manner, at a pace to be set by the learners themselves. Common idiomatic expressions are widely distributed among the cards; learners who master these will come to appreciate the beauty of the Chinese language by using a few words to say a thousa... read more

Teachers, you won’t have to rack your brain trying to think of ways to keep your students motivated! Chinese Treasure Chest is an unprecedented collection of ready-to-use games, songs, craft projects, delightfully illustrated student worksheets and teacher-directed activities to help elementary students learn Chinese as a foreign language.

This imaginative teaching resource (two-volume set) contains hundreds of reproducible pages of activities designed around themes in the elementary curriculum and organized into 12 mo... read more

Topics
Telling Time 时间, Fruits/Chinese Food 水果/中国菜, Animals/Insects 动物/昆虫, Sports/Hobbies 运动/爱好, Shopping 购物 , Public Places 公共场所 , Community Helpers 好邻居 , Health 健康

Cultural Themes
Chinese New Year 农历新年 , Valentine’s Day 情人节 , Tomb Sweeping Day 清明节 , Dragon ... read more

This is a brand new set of flashcards for use at home or in the classroom. Flashcards are a great learning resource for young children, helping them master simple vocabulary. The cards can be used to play games, for self-testing, or simply be propped up around the house or classroom as useful reminders. The cards are durable and robust, to survive repeated use by little hands.

Children will enjoy coloring a water buffalo, a Tibetan monk and lion dancers, as well as learning interesting facts about each picture.

Includes a bonus activity guide for learning extensions
32 pp.
8½ x 11"

Learn to speak Chinese in 40 lessons with this set of revised textbooks focusing on communication and presenting the 301 most essential conversational sentences for quick learning. The 40 lessons and 8 review activities encompass 30 communicative functions such as ''Greetings'' and ''Making an Acquaintance''. Each lesson is divided into six parts - Sentences, Conversation, Substitution, New Words, Grammar and Exercises with 800 new words and fundamentals of Chinese grammar explained. The exercises are numerous and detailed and will... read more

Intended as an intensive course for those who have just started to learn Chinese. The book consists of 40 lessons and eight reviews. The 40 lessons encompass nearly 30 communicative functions, such as 'Greeting' and 'Making an Acquaintance', about 800 new words and the fundamentals of Chinese grammar. Each lesson is divided into six parts: Sentences, Conversation, Substitution and Extension, New Words, Grammar, and Exercises. The book lays emphasis on improving the ability of the learner to use Chinese for communication. It integra... read more

This title contains four new additions to the best-selling "First Hundred Words Language" series. These books are an excellent way to encourage language learning for beginners. Each book contains an online pronunciation guide through the Usborne Quicklinks website. With 100 everyday words combined with pictures, this is a valuable vocabulary building tool for young children.

* 1000 everyday words illustrated with busy scenes and labelled pictures to help children learn key vocabulary.
* Written in Mandarin Chinese with a standard 'pinyin' pronunciation guide in Roman letters.
* Readers can listen to every word read by a native Chinese speaker at the Usborne Quicklinks Website.
* With an Usborne yellow duck to find on every double page.

The key features of Hao Ji Le! include: Presents a variety of fun and engaging self-paced activities for students in the middle years of schooling Covers all strands of language learning (speaking and listening, reading and writing) Contains topic-based units that are non-sequential and common to language classroms Introduces new structures and vocabulary gradually, while reinforcing previous material Includes four appealing characters - John, Sophie, Tiantian and Xiaomei - who contextualise the learning Allows students to wo... read more

Learning words in Mandarin Chinese becomes a fun game for kids when they open this brand-new addition to Barron's "Hide & Speak "series. The book features vertical half-page flaps that extend from the top of the back cover. Kids use the flaps to cover either half of any right-hand page, on which a column of color illustrations adjoins a column of Chinese words that name the illustrated objects. The words column presents the phonetic spelling for each Chinese word as well as a simplified Chinese character to match each picture. Afte... read more

Students love to play games, and games offer engaging, motivating and fun ways to learn and consolidate language in purposeful contexts. This collection of 38 games is an indispensable resource for language teachers. The games represent a full repertoire of excellent teaching and learning strategies. The games are clearly set out and easy to follow. Implementation is made simple by organising the games as follows: Grasping Grammar Successful Script Maximising Memory Creative Communication. Teachers can readily pho... read more