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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
