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INTRODUCTION
The primary goal of this series Chinese Made Easy for Kids is to help total beginners, particularly primary school students, build a solid foundation for learning Chinese as a second/foreign language. This series is designed to emphasize the development of communication skills in listening and speaking. The unique characteristic of this series is the use of the Communicative Approach, which also takes into account the differences between Chinese and European languages, in that the written Chinese characters are independent of their pronunciation. Chinese Made Easy for Kids is composed of 4 colour textbooks (Books 1 to 4), each supplemented by a CD and a workbook in black and white.

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COURSE DESIGN
Chinese Made Easy for Kids (Books 1 to 4) have been written to provide a solid foundation for the subsequent use of Chinese Made Easy (Books 1 to 5).

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Children at this age tend to learn vocabulary related to their environment. Therefore, the

chosen topics are: family members, animals, food, colours, clothing, daily articles, school facilities, modes of transport, etc. The topics, vocabulary and sentence structures in previous books will reappear in later books of this series to consolidate and reinforce memory.

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COURSE LENGTH
This series is designed for primary 1 to 6 students. With one lesson daily, able and highly motivated children might complete one book within one academic year. At the end of Book 4, they can move on to the series Chinese Made Easy (Books 1 to 5) previously published. As the four books of this series are continuous and ongoing, each book can be taught within any time span.

HOW TO USE Chinese Made Easy for Kids

Here are a few suggestions from the author: The teacher should:
provide every opportunity for the children to develop their listening and speaking skills. A variety of

speaking exercises included in the textbook can be modified according to the children s ability encouraged to pronounce new pinyin on their own

go over the phonetic exercises in the textbook with the students. At a later stage, the children should be emphasize the importance of learning basic strokes and stroke order of characters. The teacher should

demonstrate the stroke order of each character to total beginners. Through regular practice of counting strokes of characters, the children will find it easy to recognize the old and new characters memorization

guide the children to analyze new characters and encourage them to use their imagination to aid modify the games in the textbook according to children's abilities

the workbook can be used for both class work and homework

skip, modify or extend some exercises according to the children's levels. A wide variety of exercises in encourage children to recite times table attached at the end of Book 3 and 4 of this series. The

author believes that being able to recite the Chinese times table will facilitate the children's learning of multiplication.

The children are expected to:

trace the new characters in each lesson recite the rhyme in each lesson

memorize radicals and simple characters listen to the recording of the text a few times in Book 3 and 4, and tell the story if they can. As these texts

are in picture book form, the children should find them appealing.

The text for each lesson, the audio exercises, phonetic symbols and rhymes are on the CD attached to the textbook. The symbol indicates the track number. For example, is track one. 4

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Textbook 2

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Textbook 3

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Textbook 4

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Workbook 1

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Workbook 3

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Other books in the same series:

"Chinese Made Easy", books 1-5 (for secondary school students)

This series includes:

Textbook with CDs Workbook , Teacher s Book with CD

"Chinese Made Easy for Kids" adopts a new approach to teaching Chinese as a second/foreign language. It is designed for primary school students who start learning Chinese as total beginners. This series "Chinese Made Easy for Kids" (Books 1 to 4) is the foundation course accompanying the series "Chinese Made Easy" (Books 1 to 5) published previously. "Chinese Made Easy for Kids" comprises 4 books, each book consisting of one textbook with a CD and one workbook. After completing this series, students will be able to write from memory approximately 100 simple Chinese characters, recognize over 500 Chinese characters and develop listening and speaking skills from an early age. The focus of this series is: basic knowledge of pinyin basic knowledge of strokes and stroke order of characters listening and speaking skills a lively and free learning atmosphere of Chinese language learning through rhymes, pictures and story-telling tasks and activities designed for the target age group up-to-date topics relevant to primary school students. The topics included in this series: - Greetings - Classroom language - Personal introduction - Numbers and date - Countries and languages - Occupations and work places - Modes of transport - Colours and clothing Each book in this series consists of: Textbook with CD Workbook About the author: Ms. Yamin Ma has an M.Ed. in Curriculum Design and Development from Queens University, Canada. Her research interest lies in educational psychology, ESL, and Chinese language teaching and learning. She has taught both English and Chinese in China and Canada, and is currently teaching Chinese in an international school in Hong Kong. She regularly attends international conferences and publishes articles. - Daily routines - School subjects and facilities - Parts of the body and illness - Everyday articles - Stationery - Articles in the house - Animals - House and rooms

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