To Teachers and Parents Chinese for Children is an elementary textbook designed especially for the teaching of Chinese to children abroad of pre-school age. There are three volumes in all, each consisting of twenty lessons. Volume I is aimed at teaching children Chinese pronunciation and the four tones by means of plenty of pronunciation drills; volumes Ⅱand Ⅲ deal mainly with basic sentence patterns which are simple and easily understood by children. Each volume includes appendix of teachers notes. This set of books takes a practical approach, presenting the children with words and phrases most useful in their everyday life. The topics chosen for each text are interesting to children because they focus on a childs world: it is children, Chinese and foreign, who speak in the text, and talk about childrens games such as playing doctor, and tell stories such as the Monkey King and even of a journey to the moon in their dreams. The texts are in the form of dialogue, enlivened with riddles, nursery rhymes, games and drawings. Its colourful language, together with large number of illustration, make this book most appealing to children. After completing this set of books children will have a basic knowledge of the Chinese language: pronunciation, a 340-character vocabulary, and some basic sentence patterns, thus laying a solid foundation for future study of the Chinese language. To help your children pronounce Chinese correctly, we have also produced the cassette tapes to accompany the texts.
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