Resources

The following resources may help you to teach Chinese language and culture.

Featured resource

The resource we've featured is the collection of listening and speaking exercises to support the teaching of Simplified and Traditional Mandarin at Access 3 level. This resource, produced by the LTS National Qualifications team, consists of audio files, transcripts, exercises and background information.

National Qualifications Mandarin (traditional) resources Intermediate 2
These National Qualifications Curriculum Support resources provide listening and speaking exercises to support the teaching of Mandarin (traditional) at Intermediate 2 level. The resources are available in both PDF and Word format, with the accompanying listening recordings in mp3 format.
National Qualifications Mandarin resources
These National Qualifications Curriculum Support resources provide listening and speaking exercises to support the teaching of Mandarin (Simplified and Traditional) at Access 3 level. The resources are available in both PDF and Word format, with the accompanying listening recordings in mp3 format.
News in Chinese.com
NewsinChinese.com is an entirely automated news service. It shows the news in Chinese, and English translations pop up when the user hovers their mouse over a word or phrase. Updated every 15 minutes, the site aims to provide assisted reading of authentic Chinese news articles for students of the Chinese language. The site's administrators also welcome questions on language usage in any article. You can also subscribe to the site's RSS feed. What is RSS ?
Virtual Mandarin blog
This blog is the record of Mark Pentleton's quest to learn Mandarin - entirely online and with no textbooks or teachers. Mark is the former co-ordinator of Partners in Excellence, a modern languages and technology project.
Wikipedia/Wikimedia - Chinese New Year
Find out how to say 'Happy New Year' and 'Be prosperous' in this Wikipedia entry for Chinese New Year. Learn information about the celebrations and find links to other websites. You can also find photos which are available to download under the Creative Commons licence (you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a licence identical to its own one).
Yahoo! website in many languages
Links to Yahoo! website for the following countries: China, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan and Spain. Yahoo! contains news, celebrity features, mail services social software, shopping and photo-sharing functions.