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 INTRODUCTION
The primary goal of this series Chinese Made Easy for Kids is to help total
beginners, particularly primary school students, build a solid foundation for
learning Chinese as a second/foreign language. This series is designed to emphasize
the development of communication skills in listening and speaking. The unique
characteristic of this series is the use of the Communicative Approach, which also
takes into account the differences between Chinese and European languages, in that
the written Chinese characters are independent of their pronunciation.
Chinese Made Easy for Kids is composed of 4 colour textbooks (Books 1 to 4), each
supplemented by a CD and a workbook in black and white.

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 COURSE DESIGN

Chinese Made Easy for Kids (Books 1 to 4) have been written to provide a solid
foundation for the subsequent use of Chinese Made Easy (Books 1 to 5).

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Children at this age tend to learn vocabulary
related to their environment. Therefore, the
chosen topics are: family members, animals,
food, colours, clothing, daily articles, school
facilities, modes of transport, etc. The topics,
vocabulary and sentence structures in previous
books will reappear in later books of this series
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 COURSE LENGTH
This series is designed for primary 1 to 6 students. With one lesson daily, able
and highly motivated children might complete one book within one academic year. At
the end of Book 4, they can move on to the series Chinese Made Easy (Books 1 to 5)
previously published. As the four books of this series are continuous and ongoing,
each book can be taught within any time span.

HOW TO USE Chinese Made Easy for Kids

Here are a few suggestions from the author:

The teacher should:

provide every opportunity for the children to develop their listening and speaking skills. A variety of
,
speaking exercises included in the textbook can be modified according to the children s ability
go over the phonetic exercises in the textbook with the students. At a later stage, the children should be
encouraged to pronounce new pinyin on their own
emphasize the importance of learning basic strokes and stroke order of characters. The teacher should
demonstrate the stroke order of each character to total beginners. Through regular practice of counting
strokes of characters, the children will find it easy to recognize the old and new characters
guide the children to analyze new characters and encourage them to use their imagination to aid
memorization
modify the games in the textbook according to children's abilities
skip, modify or extend some exercises according to the children's levels. A wide variety of exercises in
the workbook can be used for both class work and homework
encourage children to recite times table attached at the end of Book 3 and 4 of this series. The
author believes that being able to recite the Chinese times table will facilitate the children's learning of
multiplication.

The children are expected to:

trace the new characters in each lesson
memorize radicals and simple characters
recite the rhyme in each lesson
listen to the recording of the text a few times in Book 3 and 4, and tell the story if they can. As these texts
are in picture book form, the children should find them appealing.

The text for each lesson, the audio exercises, phonetic symbols and rhymes are
on the CD attached to the textbook. The symbol indicates the track number. For
example, is track one.

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Textbook  1

5
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Textbook  2

7
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10
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Textbook  3

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Textbook  4

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Workbook  1

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Workbook  3

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Other books in the same series:
"Chinese Made Easy", books 1-5 (for secondary school students)

This series includes:

Textbook with CDs
Workbook
,
Teacher s  Book with CD
"Chinese Made Easy for Kids" adopts a new approach to teaching Chinese as a second/foreign language. It
is designed for primary school students who start learning Chinese as total beginners. This series "Chinese
Made Easy for Kids" (Books 1 to 4) is the foundation course accompanying the series "Chinese Made Easy"
(Books 1 to 5) published previously.

"Chinese Made Easy for Kids" comprises 4 books, each book consisting of one textbook with a CD and one
workbook. After completing this series, students will be able to write from memory approximately 100 simple
Chinese characters, recognize over 500 Chinese characters and develop listening and speaking skills from
an early age.

The focus of this series is:

basic knowledge of pinyin
basic knowledge of strokes and stroke order of characters
listening and speaking skills
  a lively and free learning atmosphere of Chinese language learning through rhymes, pictures and story-telling
tasks and activities designed for the target age group
up-to-date topics relevant to primary school students.

The topics included in this series:

- Greetings - Daily routines
- Classroom language - School subjects and facilities
- Personal introduction - Parts of the body and illness
- Numbers and date - Everyday articles
- Countries and languages - Stationery
- Occupations and work places - Articles in the house
- Modes of transport - Animals
- Colours and clothing - House and rooms

Each book in this series consists of:

Textbook with CD
Workbook

About the author:

Ms. Yamin Ma has an M.Ed. in Curriculum Design
and Development from Queen’s University,
Canada. Her research interest lies in educational
psychology, ESL, and Chinese language teaching
and learning. She has taught both English and
Chinese in China and Canada, and is currently
teaching Chinese in an international school in
Hong Kong. She regularly attends international
conferences and publishes articles.

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