📖 No one could claim that learning Chinese is easy. Discover China recognizes the challenges that face students of the Chinese language and applies teaching and learning approaches to make learning effective, meaningful and enjoyable.
Discover China is a four-level Mandarin Chinese course specially designed for beginner to intermediate level students and employs a communicative approach to language learning. 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.
A focused companion to the Student's Book for both in-class and self-study use, with exercises that follow the Student's Book structure and consolidate the key language and skills from the corresponding units.
Clear learning objectives presented at the start of each lesson to give students a clear outline of the language aspects they are practising through each activity.
Extensive listening practice through additional listening material and topic-related conversations recorded by native speakers of Mandarin Chinese speaking at a natural but comprehensible speed.
Scaffolded reading practice with extra reading passages, gradual removal of pinyin and focused skill development, boosting students' character knowledge to over 3000 characters and vocabulary knowledge to over 2300 words by Workbook 4.
Structured writing skill development throughout the Workbooks, moving from stroke-by-stroke focus to extended real-life writing tasks, and substantially expanding students' character knowledge beyond the requisites of the Student's Book.
Extra grammar and vocabulary activities helps students consolidate and extend what they have learned from the Student's Book.
Personalized self-assessment sections at the end of each unit help students reflect on their individual progress and Identify areas for further review.