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E Beijing

For Students 9th - 10th
At eBeijing, the official portal of the municipal government of Beijing, find information about city government, the history of Beijing, local cuisine, famous city landmarks, and similar topics. Also find the latest news from China's...
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Living Language: E Ticket Chinese [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
These lessons will help you if you are planning a trip to China and could use a helpful traveler's phrasebook with hundreds of essential words and phrases.
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China Radio International

For Students 9th - 10th
Read program transcripts, view illustrations, and listen to CRI programs in English or Chinese. Station focuses mainly on news but also includes music and special areas for learning Chinese and/or English. Great site for its promotion of...
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United Nations

United Nations: Introduction of Un to Children (Chinese)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
These are the Chinese language pages of the UN's CyberSchool Bus site. Not as much content as the English version but pages do include resources and information about different nations and cities, UN-sponsored children's events (make a...
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Digital Dialects

Digital Dialects: Cantonese Language

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A beginner's guide to studying the Cantonese dialect of Chinese. Recognize and understand a concentrated collection of vocabulary and play games for practice.
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Living Language: Chinese to Go [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a traveler's pocket phrase guide. It includes hundreds of essential words and phrases for every situation. Keep it with you so it will help you getting around town.
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China Daily: China Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Broad access to up-to-date cultural news about China, from the Chinese publisher of a national English-language daily newspaper. Includes a wealth of information about Chinese history, politics, and the economy along with news and...
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Crayola

Crayola Asian Landscape Scroll

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's a lesson plan for students of any age! Children use Chinese scroll painting as inspiration to create their own version of this ancient art form. Provides resources and adaptations as well. You need to register to view the page,...
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Google

Google Language (Translation) Tools

For Students 9th - 10th
Find language tools, developed by Google, that perform machine translations of short passages of text or of entire Web pages, from English into over 10 world languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian,...
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BBC

Bbc World Service: Learning English Grammar

For Students 9th - 10th
The Grammar and Vocabulary area of the BBC World Service site has a section on common grammar problems and a section on idioms and expressions. There are also links to pages that provide English language learning opportunities that...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a six-page PDF of the short story "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, a story about a conflict between a Chinese-American daughter and a Chinese immigrant mother.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Nonfiction: The Woman Warrior

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, memoirs of her growing up as a child of Chinese immigrants. It features links to an excerpt of the text, and summaries and commentaries from Shmoop and Sparknotes. There...
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Latimer Clarke Corporation

Atlapedia Online: China

For Students 9th - 10th
A great resource for facts about China. This site is organized into several sections including "Location & Geography," "Climate," "People," "Demographic/Vital Statistics," "Religions," "Languages," "Education," and "Modern History -...
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Read Works

Read Works: Why Learn Chinese

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about why some third-graders are learning to speak Mandarin. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
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Japanese online.com

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a free learning service for people who wish to study the Japanese language. Japanese learners can find and talk to one another and form language exchange relationships with native Japanese speakers. You'll also find four Beginner...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Maya Lin

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from New York Voices features Chinese American architect Maya Lin.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mandarin Movement Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
In this activity, language and movement unite. There are two teachers who will read a command, once in Mandarin and once in English. The young scholars listen to both languages and then perform what the command is.
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Hong Kong Education City: English Campus

For Students 9th - 10th
English Campus is an excellent site for Chinese speakers learning English. It includes seven channels - Watch, Read, Practice, Play, Create, Meet, and a Teachers' Corner. Learn by playing word and grammar games, watching movies and...
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Ancient Scripts: Writing Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
History and definition of writing, plus extensive information on the types, families, and regions of written languages. For each language, you'll find information on when and where it was used, the people who used it, and what it looked...
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Elodil

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is all presented in French, but may be accessible to non-French speakers because of the simple graphics and ease of navigation. Learn how to say hello in 16 languages and see where people speak that language on a world map....
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Joe Landsberger

Study Guides and Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th
With over 100 separate pages of guides to studying and organizing work, this site gives tips on everything from learning how to learn, to managing your time, to how to prepare for essay exams. Selected site content is translated into 25...
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Trans Pacific Project: Transpacific Migrations

For Students 9th - 10th
What an incredible resource that looks at Transpacific migrations peopling the Western Hemisphere, the Pacific islands, and the Chinese diaspora. Included is information about genetic research that traces DNA patterns across the world....
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The College Board

College Board: Practice for the Sat Subject Tests

For Students 9th - 10th
The SAT subject tests are designed to test knowledge in particular content areas and determine how well you demonstrate that knowledge. Practice tests are available here for: mathematics, science, history, literature, and languages....
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Mdbg: Translation

For Students 9th - 10th
The main purpose of this site is to teach Chinese to native speakers of English but its bilingual content makes it a useful resource for Chinese English language learners as well; translate a small text from English to Chinese or the...

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