Discover China is a four-level Mandarin Chinese course, specially designed for beginners to intermediate students and employs a communicative approach to learning Chinese. Emphasis is placed on pair work, group work and on a wide variety of speaking and listening activities to help students become confident
Chinese language speakers.
As a complement to the Student’s Book for both in-class and self-study use, the Workbook offers exercises that follow the structure of the Student’s Book and consolidate the key language points and skills from the corresponding units.
·Clear learning objectives presented at the start of each lesson give students a clear outline of the language points they will practise through each activity.
·Extensive listening practice is offered by additional listening materials and topic-related conversations recorded by native speakers of Mandarin Chinesespeaking at a natural but comprehensible speed.
·Extra reading passages, gradual removal of pinyin and focused skill development make for scaffolded reading, boosting students’ character knowledge to over 3000 characters and vocabulary knowledge to over 2300 words by Workbook 4.
·Structured writing skill is developed throughout the Workbook, moving from strokeby-stroke writing practice to extended real-life writing tasks, which expands students’character knowledge beyond the requisites of the Student’s Book.
·Extra grammar and vocabulary activities help students consolidate and extend what they have learned from the Student’s Book.
·Personalised self-assessment at the end of each unit helps students reflect on their individual progress and identify areas for further review.