The words "Read all about it!" are intended to encourage people to buy a newspaper with some sensational news. Obviously you are not going to read all about China in this reader (and, alas!, you will not be reading the latest gossip...). Instead I promise a kaleidoscope of interesting texts about various aspects of life in modern China, and at the same time a chance to improve your English skills - almost painlessly.
If you are a student of Chinese culture (or other Oriental Studies, especially where a course of Chinese constitutes part of the curriculum) and you'd like to learn more English, this book is for you! You can use it not only in the classroom but also if you want to work on your own. Your level should ideally be advanced or at least upper-intermediate. A few texts might be quite difficult, proficiency-level - these have been asterisked. With a few exceptions, the texts are graded from easiest to most difficult.
Please remember that the exercises included in this book are not meant to test your knowledge of English but rather to help you learn new words by making you
- constantly refer to the original text,
- recycle the new words and grammatical structures,
- recognise the freshly learnt structures in new contexts.
Therefore some of the matching exercises in the COMPREHENSION section might seem quite easy. Others, however, might require explaining a new word by another one that you do not know either; do not feel intimidated by this! It is usually possible to guess the meaning of a word by a process of elimination, especially when you have the context to help you.
Atrakcyjnie przygotowany podręcznik dla studentów
japonistyki/sinologii, włączający do nauki języka angielskiego elementy
współczesnej kultury japońskiej/chińskiej. Zalety tego oryginalnego
podręcznika to wzorowa kompozycja czytanek, ćwiczeń (w tym ćwiczeń typu
cloze test) oraz interesujaca tematyka tekstów. Każdy z rozdziałów
zawiera tekst dotyczący jakiegoś aspektu kultury japońskiej/chińskiej,
a następnie ćwiczenia związane z rozumieniem tekstu oraz poszerzające
słownictwo. Ćwiczenia nawiązujące do tekstu dobrane są tak, by poprzez
aktywną pracę z nowymi słówkami umożliwić studentowi samodzielne
odgadnięcie znaczenia nowego wyrazu, a także ułatwić jego utrwalenie.
Każdą jednostkę kończy dowcip, maksyma lub ciekawostka dotycząca
kultury japońskiej/chińskiej. Podręcznik może być wykorzystywany - w
całości lub we fragmentach - na lektoratach języka angielskiego dla
studentów orientalistyki, ale dzięki kluczowi do ćwiczeń student może
też pracować z książką samodzielnie.
Contents:
To the Student
To the Teacher
Acknowledgements
Why Chinese?
A Chinese Name
China's National Flag, Emblem and Anthem
China's Population
Chinese Cookery
Types of Chinese Characters
China's Four Great Inventions
The Great Wall and China's Nationalities
Chinese Religions
China's Ethnic Composition
Mainland Minorities and Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples
Pharmacological Follies?
Little Emperors, Little Brats
Driving in China
The Three Gorges Dam Project
Chinese Funeral Customs and The Wake
Chengde
Famous Tourist Cities in China I
Famous Tourist Cities in China II
Brushing up The Brushwork
A Chinese Marriage
Snapshots From an Album
Scent Of The Golden Lotus
Walking to the Mountain I
Walking to the Mountain II
The Four Treasures of the Chinese Kitchen
Of Buddha and A Cat Meal
Farewell, My Colony I
Farewell, My Colony II
Keeping Your Face in Place I
Keeping Your Face in Place II
Keeping Your Face in Place III
Key to Exercises
