This workbook is designed for use with the Elementary Mandarin Chinese Textbook and offers a wealth of carefully-designed practice activities to help you solidify every aspect of your Chinese skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It includes extensive interactive drills, exercises and other practice materials. Online audio files are available for use in the relevant exercises.
The lessons in this workbook correspond to the 24 lessons in the Elementary Mandarin Chinese Textbook. The materials in this workbook are meant to be completed by students outside of class to strengthen and consolidate their understanding of the materials in the textbook.
Lessons 1 and 2 of the Workbook contain exercises to learn to read and pronounce the Pinyin alphabet along with simple classroom expressions. They also introduce 48 basic Chinese characters. Beginning with Lesson 3, each lesson of the workbook contains two parts. Each part has two sets of listening comprehension exercises, one translation exercise, one character practice sheet, and one reading and writing exercise. Lessons 13 and 24 of the textbook are review lessons and therefore have no corresponding workbook materials.
Preface |
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Lesson 1 Orientation to the Study of Chinese |
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9 | (12) |
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Lesson 2 Common Classroom Expressions |
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21 | (10) |
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31 | (8) |
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39 | (8) |
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Lesson 5 Asking about Name and Nationality |
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47 | (8) |
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55 | (8) |
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Lesson 7 "How Many Students in Your Class?" |
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63 | (8) |
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71 | (8) |
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Lesson 9 Numbers, Dates, and Time (I) |
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79 | (8) |
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Lesson 10 Numbers, Dates, and Time (II) |
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87 | (8) |
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Lesson 11 Locating Persons, Places, and Things (I) |
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95 | (8) |
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Lesson 12 Locating Persons, Places, and Things (II) |
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103 | (16) |
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Lesson 14 Conversation with a Six-year-old Ill |
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Lesson 15 Chat at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial |
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119 | (8) |
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Lesson 16 Biographical Information |
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127 | (8) |
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Lesson 17 More Biographical Information |
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135 | (8) |
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Lesson 16 "How Do I Get to the Beijing Hotel?" |
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143 | (8) |
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Lesson 19 Calling for a Taxi to the Airport |
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151 | (8) |
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Lesson 20 Lost in Beijing |
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159 | (8) |
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Lesson 21 By Bus and Street Car to the Summer Palace |
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167 | (8) |
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Lesson 22 A Weather Forecast |
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175 | (8) |
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Lesson 23 Talking about the Weather in Your Hometown |
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Cornelius C. Kubler, Ph.D is Stanfield Professor of Asian Studies at Williams College, where he teaches Chinese and for many years chaired the Department of Asian Studies. He was formerly Chinese Language Training Supervisor and Chair of the Department of Asian and African Languages at the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, where he trained American diplomats in Chinese and other languages, and he served for six years as Principal of the American Institute in Taiwan Chinese Language & Area Studies School. Kubler, who has directed intensive Chinese language training programs in the U.S., mainland China, and Taiwan, has been active in Chinese language test development and has authored or coauthored over 13 books and 50 articles on Chinese language pedagogy and linguistics. He lives in Williamstown, MA.