Two Children Seeking the Joy Bridge, Level 1: 300 Words Level - Couverture souple

Yuehua, Liu; Chengzhi, Chu

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 7301079214 ISBN 13 : 9787301079218

Editeur : Peking University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Chinese Breeze is a large and innovative Chinese graded reader series which offers over 60 titles of enjoyable stories at eight language levels. It is designed for college and secondary school Chinese language learners from beginning to advanced levels (including AP Chinese students), offering them a new opportunity to read for pleasure and simultaneously developing real fluency, building confidence, and increasing motivation for Chinese learning. Eight carefully graded levels increasing from 8,000 to 30,000 characters in length Wide choice of topics meet the diverse interests of learners Most useful vocabulary for actual communication Carefully controlled distribution of vocabulary, highly recycled base words in various contexts Easy to understand, low new word density, and convenient new word glosses and indexes. Mostly original stories crafted by professional writers teamed with pedagogical experts Attractive pilots Authentic and engaging language Fully illustrated texts with appealing layouts A variety of activities with answer keys Accompanying audio CDs with two (normal and slow) speed choices Two Children Seeking the Joy Bridge Sir, where is the air-ticket office? You two kids came to buy air-tickets? Are you gonna travel somewhere? Nope. We just what to go up to the Joy Bridge. The Joy Bridge? ...... Of the two children at the airport to buy air-tickets, one is 7 and the other is 8. Beyond their wildest imaginings, after they ran away, their parents were called by some crooks who demanded a ransom to get them back! And of course, nobody knows the location of the Joy Bridge that the two children intend to go see.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

A graduate of the Chinese Department of Peking University, Yuehua Liu was Professor in Chinese at the Beijing Language and Culture University. In 1989, she continued her professional career in the United States and had taught Chinese at Wellesley College, MIT, and Harvard University for many years. Her research concentrated on modern Chinese grammar, especially grammar for teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Her major publications include "Practical Modern Chinese Granmar" (co-author), "Comprehensive Studies of Chinese Directional Complements", and "Writings on Chinese Grammar" as well as the Chinese textbook series "Integrated Chinese" (chief editor) and the audio-video textbook set Learning Advanced Colloquial Chinese from TV (co-author). Ph.D., University of Hawaii. Chu is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Chinese Language Program at the University of California, Davis, where he also serves on the Executivc Board of the Second Language Acquisition Institute and is a member of the Graduate Faculty Group of Linguistics. He is Vice President of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of California and a member of the editorial boards of the L2 Journal and several other scholarly periodicals. He taught at Stanford University and Beijing Language and Culture University for many years. He has published more than 20 articles on topics in Chinese linguistics, Chinese pedagogy, and cognitive semantics, and has a forthcoming book on motion conceptualisation and representation in Chinese. He was PI of two major software projects in Chinese pedagogy and acquisition : "Chinese TA" and "the Corpus of Chinese Interlanguage". Senior Reporter, a professional writer, and a member of AII-China Writers Association and Chinese Reportage Association, Wang has written widely on social issues of modem China. His literary and research works include "The Fallen Little Sun", "Looking for Love", "Get out of the Blind Area of Private Tutoring", "An Aria for the Half-World", "A Portrait of Stars", "About Men of Mark, and Secret Weapons on the Arena of Journalism".

Présentation de l'éditeur

Of the two children at the airport to buy air-tickets, one is 7 and the other is 8. Beyond their wildest imaginings, after they ran away, their parents were called by some crooks Caho demanded a ransom to get them back...

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peking University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 7301079214
• ISBN 13: 9787301079218
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 58
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible