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This book is designed to provide teaching preparation references forteachers using the Easy Steps to Chinese (2nd Edition) series oftextbooks. Additionally, it offers answers to most exercises in the textbookand workbook. When guiding teachers on using the textbook and workbook forinstruction, we have also provided supplementary materials for some exercisesto enable teachers to strengthen practice when needed.

At the beginning of each unit, teaching objectives and key pointsare listed to help teachers grasp the focus during lesson planning andinstruction, so as to achieve the unit’s teaching goals. To comprehensivelytest students’ mastery of unit content, relevant language knowledge, andlanguage skills, we have designed quizzes for listening, speaking, reading, andwriting. These unit quizzes refer to the question formats of public Chineselanguage examinations in various countries, striving to assess students’authentic command of Chinese knowledge and communicative competence.

In the teaching process, if teachers do not have sufficient time totest students’ four skills after completing each unit, testing two of them isalso a good approach. For example, teachers can prepare listening and writingtests after the first unit, and examine speaking and reading abilities afterthe second unit. In short, teachers can assess students’ comprehensive orindividual skills as needed, while also evaluating teaching effectiveness.

Each volume of theTeacher’s Book provides audio recordings for listening quizzes. Teachers canscan the QR code on the first page of each unit quiz to obtain the listeningaudio for that unit, and download and print the unit quizzes for student use.Teachers can determine the score for each question and the total score of theunit quiz according to actual circumstances.

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Easy Steps to Chinese (2nd Edition) refers to the vocabulary and grammar syllabi, language and skillrequirements, and examination formats of major international mainstream tests,assisting students in preparing for various public exams and achievingexcellent results. The content design is meticulously structured in thefollowing aspects:

Pinyinappears on top of characters at an early stage and is gradually removed as thestudents develop their Chinese profi-ciency. The teaching of pronunciation withcorresponding exer-cises is designed systematically and scientifically.

Theseries stresses the importance of teaching basic strokes and compound strokes,stroke order, radicals and character structures. Character writing exercisesare provided to reinforce the learning of characters.

Inorder for the students to better understand and more easily memorize the newwords and phrases, an attempt has been made to ensure that only one characterin each phrase is new, and only one meaning of this new character is given. Foreach lesson, new words and phrases are listed generally according to the orderthat they appear in the text; however, some phrases containing the samecharacter are listed together for ease of learning.

Vocabularyexpansion is made possible through a good under-standing of the meaning of eachcharacter in a phrase. Some of the words that appear in earlier stages arerepeated and prac-ticed in later stages to reinforce and consolidate thelearning.

Grammaticalrules are explained in a simple manner, followed by practice exercises incontexts.

Themesare varied and relevant to students’ real life, and are carefully selectedaccording to students’ age group, interest and level of Chinese in each stage.

Listeningexercises are evenly spread out in each lesson. The listening script uses thesame topic and vocabulary as in the lesson, while adding some new words thatappropriately chal-lenge the students.

Speakingexercises take various forms that are interesting and relevant to students’life so that the students are able to develop communication skills in real-lifesituations.

Readingmaterials cover a wide range of topics, such as daily life, humanities, arts,history, geography, new technology, en-vironmental protection, etc. The themesof reading are varied and the texts are authentic in nature.

Writing training starts at the outset and remains afocal point throughout the series. The students are expected to use differentstyles and apply what they have learned in the course to write appropriately, precisely,logically and coherently.

Abouth the Author

Ms. Yamin Ma has an M.Ed. in Curriculum Design and Instruction from Queen’sUniversity, Canada. She used to teach English at both secondary and universitylevels in Shanghai (China), Hong Kong (China) and Kingston (Canada) for over 10years and has taught Chinese at primary and secondary levels in Hong Kong(China) for more than 20 years. Ms. Ma has been the Head of the ChineseDepartment in Island School (located in Hong Kong, China) for over two decadesand has taught IGCSE, AS/A-Levels and IB Language B courses.

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For use with Textbook 5 and Workbook 5 of Easy Steps to Chinese (2nd Edition)

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