Bicycle Kingdom and Other Stories
Turquoise LevelFirst Edition ©2011
Bicycle Kingdom is part of the four-level Tian Tian Zhongwen series, a carefully graded Mandarin Chinese language reader series for upper-elementary to upper-intermediate Chinese language learners. The book contains a selection of 20 colorful and enjoyable stories and art...
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Enjoyable readings for the Chinese language learner.
Bicycle Kingdom is part of the four-level Tian Tian Zhongwen series, a carefully graded Mandarin Chinese language reader series for upper-elementary to upper-intermediate Chinese language learners. The book contains a selection of 20 colorful and enjoyable stories and articles about China. A wide range of topics is covered, including modern China, ancient fables, history, culture, lifestyle, the Chinese language and more. Besides gaining a greater insight into China, the stories help learners increase their Chinese reading and Simplified Chinese character recognition skills through meaningful and stimulating contexts. Each illustrated story contains vocabulary boxes with translations of difficult vocabulary, a Language Points section explaining key grammar used in the story, and comprehension questions to check students’ understanding. The book is packaged with an audio CD containing recordings of each story, as well as English language translations to aid understanding.
Bicycle Kingdom belongs to the Turquoise Level of the Tian Tian Zhongwen series, and is designed for low-intermediate level learners. The vocabulary amount is limited to the most commonly used 1,000 Mandarin Chinese words.
More information about the series can be found at www.mydiscoverchina.com
Table of Contents
1. The blind man’s lantern
2. Pronouncing Chinese
3. The meaning of “hao”
4. Poor monk, rich monk
5. Bargaining
6. Bicycle kingdom
7. Sightseeing or photography
8. Funny drunks
9. Whet the axe
10. Taxis in Beijing
11. The chimp that quit smoking
12. Measure words and nouns
13. A ten-yuan bike
14. “Where, where?
15. Einstein’s handiwork
16. The horse’s eyes
17. A midnight call
18. A diary of her love
19. A sad story
20. The best news
2. Pronouncing Chinese
3. The meaning of “hao”
4. Poor monk, rich monk
5. Bargaining
6. Bicycle kingdom
7. Sightseeing or photography
8. Funny drunks
9. Whet the axe
10. Taxis in Beijing
11. The chimp that quit smoking
12. Measure words and nouns
13. A ten-yuan bike
14. “Where, where?
15. Einstein’s handiwork
16. The horse’s eyes
17. A midnight call
18. A diary of her love
19. A sad story
20. The best news
Authors
Zhu Yong
Mr. Zhu Yong is a professor of the School of Chinese of Beijing Foreign Languages University. He has been teaching graduate courses such as Second Language Learning Research, Teaching Reading & Research, and courses for overseas students like Comprehensive Chinese, Oral Chinese and Reading, etc. Zhu Yong taught at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies from 2005 to 2007. From 2010 to present, Zhu Yong has been the Chinese Director of the Confucius Institute of Rome University in Italy. His research interests are CSL vocabulary, teaching reading, and development of teaching materials. He has published over 20 articles in journals like Chinese Teaching in the World, Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies. He is also the editor-in-chief of over ten textbooks including Tiantian Zhongwen Readers.
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