This workbook is designed for use with the Elementary Mandarin Chinese
Textbook and offers a wealth of carefully-designed practice activities
to help you solidify every aspect of your Chinese skills in listening,
speaking, reading, and writing. It includes extensive interactive
drills, exercises and other practice materials. Online audio files are
available for use in the relevant exercises.
The lessons in this workbook correspond to the 24 lessons in the
Elementary Mandarin Chinese Textbook. The materials in this workbook
are meant to be completed by students outside of class to strengthen and
consolidate their understanding of the materials in the textbook.
Lessons 1 and 2 of the Workbook contain exercises to learn to read and
pronounce the Pinyin alphabet along with simple classroom expressions.
They also introduce 48 basic Chinese characters. Beginning with Lesson
3, each lesson of the workbook contains two parts. Each part has two
sets of listening comprehension exercises, one translation exercise, one
character practice sheet, and one reading and writing exercise. Lessons
13 and 24 of the textbook are review lessons and therefore have no
corresponding workbook materials.