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Discovering Chinese series is for the beginning young adult with no prior exposure to Chinese. This 4-volume, 48-lesson curriculum builds student’s understanding of Chinese language and culture with themes and subjects that are relevant to their daily lives.
Through 12 lessons per volume, students will build up their language skills to SAT 2 level, while becoming acquainted with relevant Chinese cultural lessons such as idioms, origins of Chinese characters, and typing Chinese on computers. High-quality situational illustrations and online lessons make learning fun and effective, while frequent recycling of previously-learned material, both within volumes and between series, ensures long-term language retention.
Animated Lessons Online: Students can review what they learned in the classroom, play additional exercises and watch level-appropriate stories, making learning Chinese relevant and fun! In addition, parents can participate in the learning progress at home.
Supportive Teacher/Parent’s Guide: Focusing on interpersonal, interpretational, and presentational skills, the teacher’s guide includes task-based assessments for lesson planning and goal setting.
Additional Learning Tools: Flash cards, other level-appropriate story CD-ROMs, supplementary books and online stories further facilitate and enhance Chinese language and cultural knowledge.
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Discovering Chinese is designed for middle to high school students at the beginner level. The spiral-up approach allows students to review past lessons as they advance through the volumes in the series! (Lessons in Discovering Chinese parallel the lesson progress in My First Chinese Reader, so students who began their Chinese learning with the My First Chinese Reader series can easily switch to Discovering Chinese once they enter middle school. ) Discovering Chinese is currently used in 200+ schools.
For daily lessons/sessions (1-hour per session): Educators are recommended to teach 1 lesson per school week. Each volume contains 12 lessons. We recommend middle school students to complete each volume in 1 academic year (approximately 32 weeks) with teachers supplementing additional cultural and extracurricular learning, such as Chinese Festivals, Chinese Yo-Yo, Chinese Hockey Sack, etc. For high school students, we recommend students to complete each volume in 1 academic semester with additional cultural activities and learning.
For fewer than 2 weekly sessions: In learning environments in which students have 2 or less sessions per week, teachers are recommended to complete 1 lesson in 2-3 weeks with additional cultural activities and learning. This series is recommended for 1 to 2+ academic years depending on learning objectives and goals.
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