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 B......Page 2 Classroom Expressions......Page 4 Table of Contents......Page 5 Preface......Page 12 Unit Five: Classroom and Classes......Page 17 Lesson 13: Introduction (III), Greetings (II) & Leave-taking......Page 18 Lesson 14: Classroom & Class Schedule......Page 31 Lesson 15: Classroom Activities......Page 46 Unit Six: Various Activities......Page 65 Lesson 16: Holidays & Festivals......Page 66 Lesson 17: Daily Routine......Page 78 Lesson 18: Your Favorite Activities & Sports......Page 93 Unit Seven: Our Campus......Page 112 Lesson 19: On Campus......Page 113 Lesson 20: Around the Campus......Page 126 Lesson 21: Campus Life......Page 140 Unit Eight: Completed Actions, Past Events & Experiences......Page 160 Lesson 22: Completed Actions......Page 161 Lesson 23: Past Events......Page 178 Lesson 24: Past Experiences......Page 193 Appendix I......Page 209 Appendix II......Page 221 Workbook B......Page 233 Table of Contents......Page 234 Preface......Page 239 Unit Five: Classroom and Classes......Page 240 Lesson 13: Introduction (III), Greetings (II) & Leave-taking......Page 241 Lesson 14: Classroom & Class Schedule......Page 252 Lesson 15: Classroom Activities......Page 268 Unit Six: Various Activities......Page 291 Lesson 16: Holidays & Festivals......Page 292 Lesson 17: Daily Routine......Page 305 Lesson 18: Your Favorite Activities & Sports......Page 321 Unit Seven: Our Campus......Page 350 Lesson 19: On Campus......Page 351 Lesson 20: Around the Campus......Page 365 Lesson 21: Campus Life......Page 379 Unit Eight: Completed Actions, Past Events & Experiences......Page 403 Lesson 22: Completed Actions......Page 404 Lesson 23: Past Events......Page 416 Lesson 24: Past Experiences......Page 431 Appendix: Answer Key......Page 455