Welcome to
 Chinese 2 B, SFVCCA, Fall 05
Teacher: Li-Bu Larson
    (to Li-Bu Larson's Home Page click here)
E-mail: libu.larson@csun.eduURL: http://www.csun.edu/~ll51106

Required Text-books:
 
 

Course Description and Objectives:

Chinese 2 B is a course of elementary Chinese for young children with little or no background in Chinese. The training focuses on Hanyu Pinyin, pronunciation, tones, speaking and listening comprehension, daily dialogues, basic Chinese characters and phrases. The class activities make  learning enjoyable and aim at helping students to develop further communication in Chinese, as well as demonstrate the possibilities of using simple language to communicate more meaningfully and extensively with others.
Students are encouraged to practice speaking and listening Chinese online. You can check the homework through our web site (microsoft explore can support it or you may need the Chinese fonts - BIG5 in your computer to read in Chinese.)

Tentative Course Schedule:
 
Week & Date
 Teaching Schedule Assignment
1. 9/10 - Introduction, Lesson 2 (1) New names; L 2 (1), Hello HW1: 
2. 9/17  Quiz 1; L.2 (2) ,I am Lanlan HW2:
3. 9/24  Quiz 2; L. 2 (3), Good morning  HW3:
4. 10/1  Quiz 3; L. 3 (1,2); Number up to 10, Important numbers HW4:
5. 10/8 Quiz 4; L 3 (3), Numbers 0 to 100 HW5:
6. 10/15  Quiz 5; L 3 (4) Math quiz HW6:
7. 10/22 - Review  Quiz 6; Review for Midterm; Reading comprehension  L 4 (1) Who is he? HW7:
8. 10/29 - Midterm  Midterm; Listening comprehension  HW8:
9. 11/5  Quiz 7; L. 4 (2), Who is it?  HW9:
10. 11/12  Quiz 8; L 4 (3)  How old are you? HW10
11.11/29 
(11/26  Thanksgiving Weekend)		 Quiz 9; L 5(1) Things I use? Listening comprehension  HW11:
12. 12/3 Quiz 10; L 5 (2) What is this? Reading Comprehension  HW12: 
13. 12/10
(12/17,12/24,12/31,1/7 Winter Recess)		 Quiz 11;  L5 (3) Whose is this? HW13:
14.  1/14  Quiz 12; L 5 (4) Is this yours? HW14:
15. 1/21  Review L 1 - 5 Review L 1 to L 5 HW15: 
16. 1/28  Written & Oral Final Exams Homework Free, haohao wanr!

Practice Online:
 

  • Pinyin Guide by Harvard University with audio clips -- excellent, now available again.
  • Practice Your Pinyin (Univ. of Iowa)
  • How to Write Chinese Characters - Basic Stroke Types and Stroke Orders, by Li-Bu Larson
  • Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online  (Level I, big 5 version) (Fifteen Units in Pinyin, English, Characters and Exercises with sound), by Dr. Tim Xie, CSULB
  • Learn Pinyin
  • The Collection of Chinese Songs & Poems (Coming soon)
  • Relatives, Relatives' Pictures and Proper Address, (new) by Li-Bu Larson
  • Educational Websites for Pre-K and Elementary
  • Theme: Characters, by China Sprout
  • Chinese Stories online
  • The Monkey Wore Gloves
  • Jasmine Flower Song, (you may need BIG 5 to view it) by Li-Bu Larson
  • Spring Festival Activities 1
  • Spring Festival Activities 2
  • Spring Festival
  • Animated characters Lesson 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,7, 8, 9, 10 by Dr. Tianwei Xie, CSULB
  • Some Chinese Characters, a few randomly chosen Chinese words are here just for you to look at.
  • A is for Love, a set of Flash Cards for learning Chinese
  • Games for Pinyin or Chinese Characters, by Dr. Tianwei Xie, CSULB

    •  Created & updated by Li-Bu Larson
    September 30, 2005