Learn Chinese with Me Workbook 2

Description

Learn Chinese with Me is a series composed of four volumes each of which contains a student’s book and Workbook designed for the students whose native language is English.

It emphasizes functional use of the language with sentence patterns and grammar in the context of everyday activities. The textbook includes plenty of exercises to keep students interested and to deepen their understanding of Chinese.

Learn Chinese with Me is a series designed for students of 15 to 18 years old whose native language is English. It guides the students from beginner to low-intermediate level. The topics in this series of textbooks have been carefully selected to meet the high school students’ interests and are arranged in accordance with the rules of learning a second language. The series is composed of four volumes each of which contains Student’s Book, Teacher’s Book, Workbooks, and phonetic and listening materials.

This workbook, in coordination with Learn Chinese with Me Student’s Book 2, consists of exercises suitable for both homework and classwork alike. There are altogether six units, each of which contains four lessons, with a total of 24 lessons in all. There are eight to ten exercises in each lesson. The exercises test the students’ knowledge of pinyin, Chinese characters, vocabulary, sentence patterns, etc. The students that this book is intended for have already acquired a certain level of Chinese. Therefore, when compiling these exercises we have kept in mind the following principles:

• Vocabulary: In accordance with the textbook, an exercise if provided that focuses on the recognition and pronunciation of the vocabulary introduced in the lesson. In this exercise the students are required to choose the correct Pinyin for the given words and be able to write important characters and words. They are also required to translate the English words into Chinese and vice versa. Unlike Workbook 1 there are no more exercises on sound discrimination or tone practice.
• Chinese Characters: This workbook, in accordance with the textbook, emphasizes the basic structures, common components, basic strokes and stroke order of Chinese characters. There is one such exercise in each unit, thus six in all.
• This workbook tried to make the exercise interesting, when the knowledge of Chinese Language has been compiled in an integrated and systematical way.