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Costumes and prop ideas for The Turnip is Back

1. Making Two Red Turnips:

a. Use paper to form the turnip's root.

b. Tape the root onto a paper mache ball.

c. Glue red strip tissue paper on the turnip.

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Costumes and props for The Little Tadpoles Look for Their Mother

1. Create a headdress for Big Frog out of colored construction paper or soft foam.

2. Ask the students playing the roles of the small animals to create their own headdresses.

服装道具:

小动物们的头饰和小动物们的服装可由学生自己设计制作。小蝌蚪们的服装基本是黑色的衣裤。大青蛙的形像可用帽子做青蛙的头饰。(见英文图 )

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Costume and prop ideas for The Ants and the Grasshopper

Students can create their own headbands or use baseball caps to represent the ants and the grasshopper. The ants can wear black baseball caps with two antennae, while the grasshopper can wear a green baseball cap with two antennae.

 

服装道具:

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English Translation of "Happy Chinese New Year"

Happy Chinese New Year

Happy New Year, the new year is here;

Children light firecrackers

Hear them crackle and bang!

 

Happy New Year, the new year is here;

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Costumes and props ideas for "Happy Chinese New Year"

1. Dressing Up:

Dress students in traditional Chinese costumes (contact a local Chinese Cultural Association for renting costumes). If no costumes are available, students should wear new clothes in bright colors.

 

2. Making Paper Fireworks:

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Open for Business Simplified Transcript Preview

This is a preview of the simplified character transcript for the Open for Business DVD conversations. The preview includes Units 1.1 through 1.4. A complete version, plus transcripts in pinyin and Traditional characters, can be purchased here.

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Open For Business Conversations DVD Complete Pinyin Transcript

In this DVD, a series of conversations covers the business topics presented in Open for Business (Volumes 1 & 2); two native speakers use the vocabulary and sentence patterns presented in Open for Business to discuss each business topic as it relates to the current business climate in China.

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Li Bai & Du Fu Audio Sample: Chapter 10 - Asking the Moon, with Wine in Hand (把酒问月)

Now available! The audio companion to Zu-yan Chen's annotated anthology, Li Bai & Du Fu: An Advanced Reader of Chinese Language and Literature.

Here you can listen to a sample poem read by Hong Zhang, a master of voice performance.

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Li Bai & Du Fu (Simplified), Book Preview

This innovative new reader for advanced students provides a selection of poems by these two great masters of Chinese poetry, as well as essays in Chinese discussing the context and significance of the poems. Vocabulary lists help students to master the terminology.

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Strategies for Teaching Early Chinese Language Learners

Originally presented by Shuhan C. Wang, Ph.D. at the CAIS Chinese Language Conference 2008.

Panel: Strategies for Teaching Early Chinese Language Learners
Sun, March 16, 9 – 9:50am