Standard Chinese

Standard Chinese is a whole set of Chinese teaching materials published by the People’s Education Press. With the support of the Ministry of Education of China and under the guidance of the Office of State Leading Group to Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, the Curriculum and Teaching Materials Research Institute has organized textbook specialists and special-ranked teachers to compile there teaching materials. They are prepared for the Children of the Chinese students studying in the USA and Canada as well as for those young people who are willing to study Chinese.

Standard Chinese consists of textbooks, exercise-books and teacher’s guide books, etc. They are graded into three levels. Each level has three textbooks and every book has 30 lessons. The grammar points are arranged from the easy to the difficult and in a way of developing in spirals, combining with the training of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The textbooks have a large format of sixteenmo in color printing with beautiful illustrations and photos. Beautifully designed and beautifully printed, they are very popular among the teachers, parents and students. CD-ROMs for textbooks of level one have been completed.

The textbooks of Level One have Chinese Phonetic Alphabet for all the texts. Most of the texts are dialogues with characters and situation, close to the children’s life.

The textbooks of Level Two have more and more fairy tales, stories and poems, etc. and the texts have novel, rich and readable contents. In textbooks of Level One and Two, in addition to texts, every lesson has basic sentences, new words, phrases and exercises. Vocabulary and phrases are attached at the end of the book.

On completion of studying Standard Chinese Levels One and Two, the students can learn 2150 frequently-used Chinese words, about 4200 terms and 300 basic sentences with a preliminary capability of listening, speaking, reading and writing one or two paragraphs simple letters and keeping a diary.

The textbooks of Level Three are for junior high school students. Instead of exercise-books, they have Chinese Reader. The textbook in this level is divided into six integrated units. Every lesson has a text, new words and terms, illustrative phrases and exercises. The textbooks are suited to the characteristics of t he students’ age and metality, having variety of text contents and practical and interesting exercises, with special attention paid to develop the students’ learning ability and creativity.