Easy Steps to Chinese for Kids [4a] Textbook. ISBN: 9787561934760

English Title: Easy Steps to Chinese for Kids [4a] Textbook
Chinese Title: 轻松学中文（少儿版）英文版 课本4a
Authors: Yamin Ma, Xinying Li
ISBN-10: 7-5619-3476-9, 7561934769
ISBN-13: 978-7-5619-3476-0, 9787561934760
Binding: softcover
Pages: 99
Shipping Weight: 420g
Size: 210mm x 240mm
Language: simplified Chinese, pinyin, English
Target Group: For primary school pupils learning Chinese
Level: beginners with prior knowledge
Publisher: Beijing Language and Culture University Press (北京语言文化大学出版社)

Easy Steps to Chinese for Kids is a series of Chinese textbooks specifically designed for kids from non-Chinese backgrounds. It covers four levels, each made up of Textbooks a and b, Workbooks a and b.

This series has four characters in it, namely Ding Yi, Tian Li, Jingjing and Lele, who are primary school students from China and abroad. Beautifully designed illustrations, simple sentences and dialogues and lovely songs among other means are adopted to develop the kids’ interest in learning Chinese and help them lay a solid Chinese foundation by mastering such fundamental Chinese knowledge as numbers, basic strokes, families and daily expressions. In each volume, a cultural point is introduced through exquisite illustrations, concise words and interesting color stickers.

This is Textbook 4a in the series, which is beautifully illustrated and printed in full color. It has altogether 7 lessons encompassing such topics as telephone number, languages, daily routine, means of transport, etc. This volume attaches more importance to the review of the pinyin learned previously, teaches three radicals in each lesson besides reviewing the simple characters learned before, provides more exercises on character and radical writing, sentence making and textual expression, and devotes an independent section to listening. Through these efforts, it helps improve students’ integrated language skills. Scan the QR-code at the back of the book to get the audio.

About the Author
Ms. Yamin Ma, with a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature and a master’s degree in Education, is now teaching Chinese in an international school in Hong Kong. Ms. Ma has many years’ experience in teaching Chinese as a foreign language and knows well about the AP Chinese Program in the US and the IB Chinese Test in Europe.

轻松学中文（少儿版）英文版 课本4a
《轻松学中文》（少儿版）是专门针对海外非华裔小学生开发的汉语教材，共4册，每册分为a、b两册课本（含CD），并配有a、b两册彩色练习册、一套彩色图卡（学生用）和一套语卡片（教师教学用）。

本套教材围绕丁一、田力、京京和乐乐4个中外小学生的故事展开，用精美的插图、简短的句子和对话、优美的歌曲等生动的形式培养起学生学习汉语的兴趣，使其轻松打好汉语学习的基础，掌握如数字、汉字基本笔画、家庭成员、日常用语等汉语知识，并且每册以精美的图片、简洁的文字和有趣的彩色贴纸等形式介绍一个中国文化小知识。

本册为课本4a，图片精美，四色印刷。共7课，包括电话号码、语言、日常作息、出行交通工具等内容。本册开始深入复习拼音，每课学习3个偏旁并复习以前所学独体字，提供更多的汉字和偏旁书写、组句、语篇表达等内容，还有专项听力题，让学生进一步提高汉语听说读写综合能力。