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A Nice Lady in Shanghai and Other Stories

Turquiose LevelFirst Edition| ©0 Zhy Yong

A Nice Lady in Shanghai 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...
A Nice Lady in Shanghai 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. 

A Nice Lady in Shanghai 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

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A Nice Lady in Shanghai and Other Stories by Zhy Yong - First Edition, 0 from Macmillan Student Store

A Nice Lady in Shanghai 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. 

A Nice Lady in Shanghai 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

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Table of Contents

1. What does "?" mean?
2. A naughty child
3. I am tired!
4. How would you choose?
5. Hugging—Not a Chinese custom
6. Sharing household chores
7. What “?” means upside down
8. Speed-walking for 30 minutes a day
9. The fox and the tiger
10. Training an explorer
11. Cute pandas
12. Deep-fried dough sticks
13. White lies
14. Icelanders’ longevity
15. The winner of an essay competition
16. A nice lady in Shanghai
17. Three funny stories
18. Meng: A Chinese family name
19. Qi Bishi
20. A bad host
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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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