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 C......Page 2 Classroom Expressions......Page 4 Table of Contents......Page 5 Preface......Page 11 Unit Nine: Plans and Careers......Page 16 Lesson 25: Plans and Weather Forecast (I)......Page 17 Lesson 26: Careers......Page 32 Lesson 27: Ability and Permission......Page 43 Unit Ten: Residence......Page 65 Lesson 28: Houses and Rooms......Page 66 Lesson 29: Furniture and Electrical Appliances......Page 80 Lesson 30: Rental Housing......Page 93 Unit Eleven: Foods and Drinks......Page 110 Lesson 31: Meals and Beverages......Page 111 Lesson 32: Talking about Food......Page 124 Lesson 33: Restaurants......Page 139 Unit Twelve: Shopping and Various Errands......Page 161 Lesson 34: Numbers and Currencies......Page 162 Lesson 35: Shops and Shopping......Page 177 Lesson 36: Various Errands......Page 190 Appendix I......Page 206 Appendix II......Page 220 Workbook C......Page 234 Table of Contents......Page 235 Preface......Page 240 Unit Nine: Plans and Careers......Page 241 Lesson 25: Plans and Weather Forecast......Page 242 Lesson 26: Careers......Page 256 Lesson 27: Ability and Permission......Page 269 Unit Ten: Residence......Page 292 Lesson 28: Houses and Rooms......Page 293 Lesson 29: Furniture and Electrical Appliances......Page 306 Lesson 30: Rental Housing......Page 320 Unit Eleven: Foods and Drinks......Page 345 Lesson 31: Meals and Beverages......Page 346 Lesson 32: Talking about Food......Page 360 Lesson 33: Restaurants......Page 374 Unit Twelve: Shopping and Various Errands......Page 396 Lesson 34: Numbers and Currency......Page 397 Lesson 35: Shops and Shopping......Page 407 Lesson 36: Various Errands......Page 420 Appendix: Answer Key......Page 440