This book is designed to help learners to prepare for their GCSE/IGCSE Chinese as a foreign language exam. The exercises cover the topics, core vocabulary and grammar points required from the different exam specifications. By working on activities and practising exam type questions, students build up strong key Chinese language skills, and fully prepare for achieving their best potential in the exam.

Features:

• Revise Chinese vocabulary in chunks to consolidate Chinese written characters and vocabulary knowledge; practise the varied characters, andlistening, reading, speaking and writing activities to build confidence with the language.
• Detailed instructions for the exercises and activities are provided in the user guide at the beginning of each chapter.
• Exercises for different question types at different levels of difficulty which can help teachers put differentiation into practice.
• Scaffolding and self-assessments by providing draft planning forms, checklists and tips for students to build their learner profile and track their progress.

Contents

Introduction 

Chapter 1      Vocabulary in Chunks  词语归类复习

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1.1      Who  谁 ● 004

Family Members and Relationships / All about Me / Names and Titles / Identity and Jobs / Jobs and Workplaces / Other People

1.2      Where  哪儿 ● 016

Houses, Rooms, Facilities / Places, Nature / Countries, Cities, Tourist places / Directions, Locations, Positions / At the Bank and the Store, Asking the Way / At Restaurants and the Post Office, Using the Internet / Going on Holiday

1.3      When  什么时候 ● 030

Numbers and Order / Time / Dates, Months, Years, Seasons, Festivals / Tenses and their Patterns / High Frequency Characters

1.4      What  什么 ● 040

Appearance / Sickness / Colours and Clothes / Animals / Schooling / Furniture, Household Appliances and Daily Necessities / Festivals / Food and Drink / Weather and Environment / Verbs 1 - High Frequency / Verbs 2 - Opposites / Verbs 3 - Others

1.5      How  怎么样/怎么 ● 066

Adjectives 1 - Synonyms and Antonyms / Adjectives 2 - Related Words

1.6      Other Vocabulary  其他 ● 070

Measure Words 1 / Measure Words 2 / Measurements / Questions / Auxiliary Verbs / Adverbs / Conjunctions / High Frequency Characters / Four-character Phrases

Chapter 2      Vocabulary Exercises  词语练习

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2.1      Chinese Radicals  汉字偏旁 ● 086

Exercise 1 / Exercise 2

2.2      Chinese Character Structures  汉字结构 ● 099

Exercise 1 Left- right Structure Characters  / Exercise 2  Up-down Structure Characters

2.3      Form Words with Characters  组词 ● 107

2.4      Taboo  猜词游戏1 ● 110

2.5      Who am I  猜词游戏2 ● 114

Chapter 3      Listening and Reading Exercises  听力&阅读练习

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3.1      Exam Type A Exercises  A类题型练习 ● 124

Listening Exercises / Reading Exercises

3.2      Exam Type B Exercises  B类题型练习 ● 137

Listening Exercises / Reading Exercises

3.3      Exam Type C Exercises  C类题型练习 ● 154

Listening Exercises / Reading Exercises

Chapter 4      Speaking Exercises  口语练习

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4.1      Questions and Answers  问答 ● 170

How to Ask Questions / Questions and Answers

4.2      Photo Tasks  看图说话 ● 199

How to Draw a Description of a Photo / Photo Tasks

4.3      Role Play  角色扮演 ● 207

How to Express Your Opinions / Role Play

Chapter 5      Translation Exercises  翻译练习

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Translation Tips / Translation Checklist

5.1      Translate Sentences  翻译句子 ● 228

5.2      Translate Passages  翻译段落 ● 232

Chapter 6      Writing Exercises  写作练习

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6.1      Write Five Words  写出五个词 ● 238

6.2      Fill the Forms  填写表格 ● 243

6.3      Writing Tasks  写作任务 ● 253

Writing Tips / Directed Writing Tasks / Extended Writing Tasks