Bridge to China: An Integrative Approach to Beginning Chinese

Description

Bridge to China is a new, four-part Mandarin Chinese primer series for today’s North American college and high school students. The series opens with an introduction to Pinyin, the Chinese phonetic alphabet, which optimizes students’ ability to speak successfully as they learn. The first two books are for beginning students and emphasize pronunciation, listening, and speaking. Book 2 also incorporates reading skills. Books 3 and 4 target intermediate Mandarin Chinese learners and place equal emphasis on speaking and reading skills. The series offers well-chosen, high-interest topics for oral activities, lively situational dialogues, important grammatical structures, and select usages of modern Chinese. It also provides entertaining, culturally informative readings, supplementary vocabulary lists, and two-way vocabulary glossaries at the end of each book. Extensively class-tested, Bridge to China integrates the 5 Cs of language learning—communication, culture, comparisons, connections, and communities. It lays a solid foundation in the target language and successfully prepares students for advanced study. This series can be used in two-year college programs, four-year high school programs, and short-term intensives. Textbook Table of Contents ......Page 4 Preface ......Page 11 Preliminary Unit ......Page 16 I. A Brief Introduction to Chinese Phonetics ......Page 17 II. A Brief Introduction to the Chinese Writing System ......Page 29 Unit One: Introduction & Greetings ......Page 36 Lesson One: Introduction ......Page 37 Lesson Two: Introduction (II) ......Page 46 Lesson Three: Greetings (I) and Commands in Class ......Page 61 Unit Two: Time & Dates ......Page 78 Lesson Four: Numbers ......Page 79 Lesson Five: Asking the Time ......Page 92 Lesson Six: Calendar ......Page 108 Unit Three: Asking about Your Classmates ......Page 130 Lesson Seven: Countries, Nationalities, & Languages ......Page 131 Lesson Eight: Asking for Information ......Page 145 Lesson Nine: Personal Data ......Page 162 Unit Four: Descriptions ......Page 182 Lesson Ten: Colors and Clothes ......Page 183 Lesson Eleven: Parts of the Body (I) ......Page 199 Lesson Twelve: Description of A Person's Appearance ......Page 214 Appendix I ......Page 240 Appendix II ......Page 251 Workbook ......Page 263 Workbook Table of Contents ......Page 265 Preface ......Page 270 Preliminary Unit ......Page 271 I. A Brief Introduction to Chinese Phonetics ......Page 272 II. A Brief Introduction to the Chinese Writing System ......Page 277 Unit One: Introduction & Greetings ......Page 280 Lesson One: Introduction (I)......Page 286 Lesson Two: Introduction (II)......Page 294 Lesson Three: Greetings (I) and Commands in Class ......Page 313 Unit Two: Time & Dates ......Page 335 Lesson Four: Numbers ......Page 341 Lesson Five: Asking the Time ......Page 351 Lesson Six: Calendar ......Page 370 Unit Three: Asking about Your Classmates ......Page 393 Lesson Seven: Countries, Nationalities & Languages ......Page 394 Lesson Eight: Asking for Information ......Page 408 Lesson Nine: Personal Data ......Page 418 Unit Four: Descriptions ......Page 441 Lesson Ten: Colors and Clothes ......Page 442 Lesson Eleven: Parts of the Body (I) ......Page 457 Lesson Twelve: Description of A Person's Appearance ......Page 469 Appendix I: The Table of the 189 Radicals ......Page 493 Appendix II: Answer Key......Page 499