Chinese in 10 Days is a series of basic comprehensive Chinese textbook designed for beginning students of Chinese as a second language in short-term classes. It consists of forty lessons in four volumes which can be covered in about 160 hours of classroom time, marking it easy for the teacher to adapt to his/her student's particular level.

This set of textbooks was complied with the following principles in mind: First, to provide students with rich input including language elements, such as phonetics, vocabulary, grammar, and Chinese characters; second, to help students transform these language elements into the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing through class activities; and finally to help students internalize these elements and acquire communication skills.

For ease of use in the classroom, each lesson consists of the following parts:
Warm-up
Situational Dialogues
Narrative
Class Activities
New Words
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Contents

Lesson One       How are you?
Lesson Two       Are your parents busy?
Lesson Three        What's your name?
Lesson Four         Whose book is this?
Lesson Five         Which country are you from?
Lesson Six          What's the time now?
Lesson Seven         What day is it today?
Lesson Eight          How many people are there in your family?
Lesson Night          How much are the apples?
Lesson Ten         Enjoy your weekend!

Appendi x 1　 Vocabulary　Index
Appendi x 2    Grammar Index
Appendi x 3    Translation of "Situational Dialogues" and "Narrative" Parts
Appendi x 4    The Scripts for Part "Listen and Speak"
Appendi x 5    Scripts and Key Answers for Part 'Listen and choose the right pictures"

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