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Hi all, Another useful site for listening is Clavis Sinica, who have some audio texts, particularly a “Chinese Voices project’ that i have found useful for Pre-U Mandarin. On a related note, for those of you teaching Chinese History as part of the Pre-U Mandarin Course, Sovereign education were going to run an AS/A2 study day on the Emergence of Mao’s China in London, which pretty much ties in with the Pre-U history syllabus. Unfortunately they had too few takers, so cancelled the event, but may run in towards the end of the year. This is the link to the course: http://www.sovereigneducation.co.uk/courses/history/the-emergence-of-maos-china/ If you are interested, please do get in touch with either them directly, or email me so that I can give them some idea of who to contact if the event does go ahead later in the year. They were not aware they had a potential audience outside of history departments. Liz City of London School for Girls On 4 Feb 2016, at 16:32, Mr A. Moorman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Listening is hard for our students, and recently I have made a big effort in this area. Here is what I have learnt: > > I use Discover China books 2 & 3 selectively, and they are boosted by the fact the free quizzes and tests available on the website can also be adapted:www.mydiscoverchina.com > > Slow Chinese/慢速中文 has many good free podcasts. I set my own questions and have the students answer them before they read/study the transcripts. > > Similarly, The Chairman’s Bao has audio and news articles that can be adapted in the same way as Slow Chinese. > > Also, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has some useful video lessons on the environment that can be freely downloaded. > > Other than that, I do dictations with them, and especially push pinyin when we learn new vocab as they find it hard. I NEVER tell them the pinyin and tones for new vocab any more. > > Basically, there is quite a lot of using bits and pieces of materials. If anyone would like any of the lessons that I have made, please email me personally [log in to unmask] > > 祝大家愉快！ > > 马老师