Information about Chinese modern language materials for first years

First year teaching plan

Materials for the first year’s modern language work?

 

Titles of Books, CDs and websites

When do I need them? 

Where can I get hold of them? 

How much do they cost? 

Are they essential? 

Practical Chinese Reader Book IPractical Chinese Reader - Wikipedia

First week of MT

Can be purchased online from Amazon or other sites

or click here for a PDF copy

 

£10, copy from China Centre Office

Yes, for both undergraduates and MPhil graduates

Practical Chinese Reader Book II

HT

Can be purchased online from Amazon or other sites

or click here for a PDF copy

 

£10, copy from China Centre Office

Yes, for both undergraduates and MPhil graduates

*Practical Chinese Reader Book I& II Texts & Vocab. Index in unabbreviated characters*

First week of MT

 Click here for a PDF copy

 

Yes, for undergraduates only

Multimedia Chinese CDROM

First weeks of MT and TT

Copies could be obtained from Rosanna in China Centre Office (in pre-Covid situation)

£12

Yes, for both undergraduates and MPhil graduates

Pinyin pronunciation CDROM and booklet (Also available on CTCFL website)

First week of MT

Available on CTCFL website

 

Yes, for both undergraduates and MPhil graduates

Radical List for Chinese Character (Also available on CTCFL website)

First week of  MT

Available on CTCFL website

 

Yes, for both undergraduates and MPhil graduates

Elementary Chinese Revision Notes and Exercises (Also available on CTCFL website)

End of HT

Available on CTCFL website

 

Yes, for both undergraduates and MPhil graduates

*Colloquial Chinese by T’ung and Pollard*

End of TT for collection in 2nd yr MT

Online

 

Yes, undergraduates (full-form characters) MPhil (Simplified form characters)

 

 

 

 

Other materials for Chinese language studies

Website of Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language

Click on Chinese Language Studies at Elementary Level

PCR Chinese Character Writing Sheets  designed by John Jinghua Yin University of Vermont

http://www.uvm.edu/~chinese/characte.htm

Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to view and print the Chinese character writing sheets.  If you do not have one installed yet, please download. 

《实用汉语课本》(第一册)Practical Chinese Readers Book I

《实用汉语课本》(第二册)Practical Chinese Readers Book II

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other facilities

Language Centre (LC, 12 Woodstock Rd)

The LC has materials that are relevant to the course, and facilities such as audio, video and computers to assist your language learning. Booking is needed.