<b>Usage Advice: </b>This is a series of readers matching Textbooks 1-4 of <a href="http://www.purpleculture.net/easy-steps-to-chinese-bs-538/">Easy Steps to Chinese</a>.<br/>
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<b>Level: </b>Beginner,Elementary<br/>
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For Primary School, Middle School<br/>
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The Stories of Tiantian is a series of readers matching Textbooks 1-4 of <a href="http://www.purpleculture.net/easy-steps-to-chinese-bs-538/">Easy Steps to Chinese</a>. For each of thefour levels, there are five readers, each telling three stories, matching thethree lessons in each unit of Easy Stepsto Chinese. The readers describe the adventures of a secondary schoolstudent called Tiantian. The readers aim to create a motivatingenvironment, in which students can revise, practice and consolidate thevocabulary, sentence structures and language points they havelearned from the textbook.<br/>
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<b>About the Author</b><br/>
Ms.Ma Yamin holds a B.A. of British Language and Literature and an M.Ed. inCurriculum Design and Development. She is now teaching Chinese as a foreignlanguage in an international school in Hong Kong. With many years’ experiencein teaching Chinese as a foreign language, she has done a thorough research fora long time on the Chinese AP test in the USA and Chinese IB test in Europe.Her research interests include English Language Teaching, Chinese LanguageTeaching and Pedagogical Psychology. Her academic papers have been read andpublished for many times in international seminars.<br/>
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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 1200-1600characters. 2. Thestories, being humorous and entertaining, closely resemble the life of thetarget audience in a coherent andconsistent way. 3. The storiesare written in simple language, which enables the target audience to understandChinese culture.