Chinese textbook (Eighth Grade) ( )

Author: Wang Shuangshuang
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: The "Shuangshuang Chinese Textbooks" is a series of Chinese textbooks specifically designed for overseas students, suitable for teenagers with some background in Chinese (used in weekend Chinese classes). The textbooks were developed through the collaborative effort of Wang Shuangshuang, a teacher from California, USA, and Chinese experts and scholars, based on eight years of teaching practice overseas. The entire series consists of 20 volumes, covering 2,500 characters, and includes learning from character recognition, pinyin, sentence patterns, short passages, to an initial systematic introduction to Chinese culture. The textbooks provide a broad overview of Chinese geography, history, philosophy, and other rich aspects of Chinese culture. They are extensive in knowledge, engaging in interest, easy to understand, and both teacher-friendly and student-friendly. All volumes are accompanied by CD-ROMs.
This book is the eighth volume of "Shuangshuang Chinese Textbooks," suitable for third-grade Chinese students in the second semester. It begins to introduce basic character components and measure words in Chinese. Basic character components help students remember and understand Chinese characters. The use of measure words is one of the common challenges in Chinese language teaching. This book introduces many common measure words, allowing students to learn and memorize them through contextualized language exposure, which is highly effective. The book contains 10 lessons, with 161 new characters and 109 new words. The course is designed for 12–14 teaching hours (each hour lasting 1.5 hours). The length of each lesson is approximately 600 words, accompanied by equally substantial short stories for students to practice independent reading. This book introduces the combination of basic characters to form new characters and the use of measure words in Chinese. Forming new characters helps students remember and understand Chinese characters. The use of measure words is one of the common challenges in Chinese language teaching. This book introduces many common measure words and allows students to learn and master them within specific contexts.