Confucius Institute at Michigan State University: Experience Chinese
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Picture books have been recognized as an effective aid for language education because they contain beautiful illustrations, rich language, and authentic culture. Reading these Chinese picture books not only help immerse children in a Chinese language environment, but also help them understand the Chinese culture.
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Second Life Chinese School on Chinese Island is a place where you can enjoy the beauty of Chinese culture and natural oriental landscape with a scent of history and modern life. It is a place you can come into to learn Chinese language and culture on your own or take a class. By visiting your friends in the apartment building and role playing a tea party together, you can hear how to say "你喜欢喝什么茶 （Nǐ xǐhuan hē shénme chá" and chose whether you would like to have "green tea" or "chrysanthemum tea". You can go "淼月餐馆（Miǎoyuè Cānguǎn" and have an authentic Chinese meal after a long day shopping in "wang fu jing street". At the end of the day, you will realize you were able to use Chinese to bargain for the most beautiful jade you have seen and to order the most delicious food in Second Life.
This series is tailored to middle school and elementary school students, in which hands-on activities related to culture and language, are wrapped in each lesson. By engaging in each well-crafted dynamic and reflective activity in multimedia format, students will be exposed to and experiencing enacted cultural meanings of customs, art, music, philosophy and language. The series can serve as a toolkit to cultural exploration curriculum and enrichment classes. CIMSU is developing this series right now, and 20 units are currently available and more units are being developed and added on a continuous basis. See the PowerPoint presentation (you'll also need this video) for the design principle and structure of this series, and a sample unit is also available for your reference.
Below is a complete unit to preview:
You can either request this series as a whole or request some units within the series to enrich your curriculum. Please select the units that are of interest to you from the list, and we’ll deliver the content to you on your request.The China Panorama series is published by China Central Radio and TV University, Audio & Visual Press of China Central Radio & TV University. It consists of six series:
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