Discover China 1 Student’s Book

Discover China recognises the challenges involved in learning Chinese and helps make learning and teaching effective, meaningful and enjoyable.

Discover China is a four level course designed for young adult and adult beginners and employs a communicative approach  to language learning. Emphasis is placed on pair-work, group work and on a variety of speaking and listening activities to help students become confident Chinese language speakers.

Some of the Features of Discover China:

• A communicative approach lets students learn by using the language in real-life situations, providing them with the tools they need to communicate in Chinese naturally
• Language in context presents key vocabulary and language points in situations where students will encounter them in real life
• Structured, effective learning based on the sequence : “presentation, practice and production” has activities move from controlled practice to personalized tasks, which facilitates effective learning of the language
• Inductive grammar teaching encourages students to discover the language rules of Chinese for themselves by identifying the patterns in targeted language samples
• Meaningful and integrated character writing practice through grouping characters with common radicals to give ‘clues’ to the meaning — these high frequency characters are presented within the context of the unit theme
• Insights into Chinese culture with “Cultural Corner” sections in each unit, promoting a deeper understanding of this remarkable country and its language
• Extra pair work activities for each unit, providing additional communicative speaking practice
• Supported by abundant resources including workbooks, teacher’s books, assessment tasks, MP3 downloads and extra speaking activities – the support materials allow both teacher-guided learning in the classroom and self-teaching at a pace suited to the individual student

Components of Discover China Levels 1, 2, 3 and 4:

• Comprehensive Student’s Book with regular review units, vocabulary extension activities, extra speaking practice and detailed grammar explanations
• Audio CD of all dialogues, reading passages and pronunciation activities
• Workbook + Audio CD to further develop students’ reading, writing and listening skills and enhance their grammar and vocabulary knowledge
• Supportive resource website www.mydiscoverchina.com
• for students: MP3 audio downloads, cumulative wordlists and further practice
• for teachers: a downloadable Teacher’s Book (PDF format), Power Points and lesson plans