Chinese Language Video for the Classroom (Intermediate Level)
Abundant in materials, this is an audio-visual product for Chinese language instruction, which can not only provide Chinese language teachers with video resources, but also serve as a self-teaching material for learners.
The subjects and language materials cover virtually all the communicative functions, situations and topics that appear in commonly used Chinese textbooks at the present time.
The difficulty of vocabulary, grammar items and linguistic functions was decided on the basis of learners’ actual levels of language proficiency.
The situational dialogues were performed by professional actors and actresses and were shot on the spot in order to ensure the authenticity of the language, context and culture.
This is an ideal product for non-native Chinese speakers who are interested in Chinese culture and want to gain a deep understanding of the phenomena behind it. It will lead you into the fascinating treasure-house of Chinese culture to explore its magic and profoundness.
It includes a total of 45 episodes, each focusing on a cultural topic with a wide coverage of information and lasting about 6 minutes.
It is presented in various forms, such as live shooting, recurrence of scenes, narration of anchorpersons, and demonstration of cartoons, etc. Various cultural phenomena which are hard to be expressed in words are presented through vivid images.
Chinese words and sentences related to the topic of the episode are taught at the end of each episode to help students learn Chinese language while understanding the culture.
Some topics are also presented with video clips to demonstrate how to make Chinese handicrafts so that viewers can learn to do it while watching the program.
During two years of filming, the crew went to 12 countries and interviewed hundreds of world-renowned scholars in an endeavour to investigate into the origin of Chinese characters and exhibit the glorious and magnificent Chinese culture through literature exploration, archeological research and discussions with experts.Five Thousand Years of Chinese Characters selects 32 representative characters and revealed the history behind the development of characters in a story-telling way. It vividly portrays a picture of the 5,002 years Chinese civilization. It is very authoritative and has a high historical and aesthetic value.
4 DVDs (Mandarin, With Simplified Chinese Subtitles) / 2008 / 360 minutes