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Bicycle Kingdom and Other Stories
Turquoise LevelFirst Edition| ©2011 Zhu Yong
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...
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
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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
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Bicycle Kingdom and Other Stories
First Edition| ©2011
Zhu Yong

Bicycle Kingdom and Other Stories
First Edition| 2011
Zhu Yong
Table of Contents
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
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Zhu Yong

Bicycle Kingdom and Other Stories
First Edition| 2011
Zhu Yong
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