This is a series of readers matching Textbooks 1-4 of Easy Steps to Chinese.For each of the four textbooks, there are five readers, consisting of 15 stories.The readers describe the adventures of a secondary school student called Tiantian.
Goals:
The readers aim to create a motivating environment, in which students can revise, practice and consolidate the vocabulary, sentence structures and language points they have leamed from the textbook.
Features:
1.The language used strongly focuses on progression and continuity.
The lengths of the stories are as follows:
Level 1 stories each have 100-200 characters;
Level 2 stories each have 300-500 characters;
Level 3 stories each have 600-800 characters;
Level 4 stories each have 1200-1600 characters.
2.The stories, being humorous and entertaining, closely resemble the life of the target audience in a coherent and consistent way.
3.The stories are written in simple language, which enables the target audience to understand Chinese culture.
4.Teachers can use the stories to design classroom activities.
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