Tiantian Zhongwen Graded Chinese Reader Series: Peking Opera & Other Stories

This title is part of the four-level Tian Tian Zhongwen series, a carefully graded Mandarin Chinese language reader series for elementary to upper-intermediate Chinese language learners. The book contains a selection of 20 colourful and enjoyable stories and articles about China. A wide range of topics is covered, including modern China, ancient fables, history, culture, lifestyle, the Chinese language and more. Besides gaining a greater insight into China, the stories help learners increase their Chinese reading and Simplified Chinese character recognition skills through meaningful and stimulating contexts. Each illustrated story contains vocabulary boxes with translations of difficult vocabulary, a Language Points section explaining key grammar used in the story, and comprehension questions to check students' understanding. The book is packaged with an audio CD containing recordings of each story, as well as English language translations to aid understanding. This title belongs to the Gold Level of the Tian Tian Zhongwen series, and is designed for upper-elementary level learners. The vocabulary amount is limited to the most commonly used 700 Mandarin Chinese words. More information about the series can be found at www.mydiscoverchina.com