Chinese Breeze - Graded Reader Series Level 2 [500 Word Level]: An Old Painting [2nd Edition]. ISBN: 9787301298534

ISBN-10: 7-301-29853-6, 7301298536
ISBN-13: 978-7-301-29853-4, 9787301298534
English Title: Chinese Breeze: An Old Painting
Level: Chinese Breeze - Graded Reader Series Level 2 (500 word level) (2nd Edition)
Chinese Title: 汉语风 - 中文分级系列读物 - 第2级 (500词级): 一张旧画儿 (第二版)
Binding: softcover
Pages: 72
Shipping Weight: 160g
Size: 140mm x 202mm
Language: simplified Chinese, vocabulary additionally in pinyin and English 
Year of Publication: 2018
Publisher: Peking University Press

An Old Painting, Chinese Title: 一张旧画儿 (yi zhang jiu huar) from Chinese Breeze - Graded Reader Series Level 2 (500 Word Level). With online audio stream: scan the QR-Code from the back of the book with your mobile device to get the audio.

To check if a reader of this series is at your reading level, try to read the following introduction of the story. If the introduction is comprehensible, you will have the ability to understand the full story of this book.

旧画儿商店的老爷爷又一次把那张旧画儿拿起来，从上看到下，从左看到右，再慢慢拿高一点儿，好好儿地又看了几分钟。看着看着。他的眼睛一点一点地变大了。他看着站在边上的傻小，一个收破烂的孩子：“孩子，我给你钱J给你很多很多的钱，够你家的人用一百年一你把画儿卖给我！”

可是，傻小说：“对不起，老爷爷，这画儿我不能卖……”

In the art dealer's shop, the old gentleman picked up the old painting once again. He looked it up and down, left and right. He held it up, contemplating it for a few minutes. His eyes opened wider and wider. Finally, he turned to Shaxiao, a rag boy who stood nearby, and said "Sell this painting to me. I'll pay a lot of money, enough for your family to live on for a hundred years!"

Surprisingly, Shaxiao replied, "Sir, I'm sorry. I can't sell it to you..."

Contents / 目录

1.是三百年前的画儿？
A 300 year-old painting？

2.画儿是谁的？
Whose painting is it？

3.有人在碗里放了药
The water in the bowl was drugged

4.“出事了！出事了！”
Something's wrong!

5，老奶奶，你在哪儿？
Where are you, old Granny？

6.旧画儿的故事
The story about the old painting

生词索引
Vocabulary index

练习
Exercises

练习答案
Answer keys to the exercises

About Chinese Breeze (Hànyǔ Fēng)
Chinese Breeze (Hànyǔ Fēng) is a large and innovative Chinese graded reader series which offers over 60 titles of enjoyable stories at eight language levels. It is designed for college and secondary school Chinese language learners from beginning to advanced levels (including AP Chinese students), offering them a new opportunity to read for pleasure and simultaneously developing real fluency, building confidence, and increasing motivation for Chinese learning.

Hànyǔ Fēng has the following main features:

• Eight carefully graded levels increasing from 8,000 to 30,000 characters in length;
• Wide choice of topics, including detective, adventure, romance, fantasy, science fiction, society, biography, legend etc. to meet the diverse interests of adult and young learners; 
• Careful selection of most useful vocabulary for actual communication in modern standard Chinese; 
• Carefully controlled distribution of vocabulary, highly recycled base words in various contexts;
• Easy to understand, low new word density, and convenient new word glosses and indexes. In lower level readers, new word density is limited to 1.5 - 2%. All new words are conveniently glossed with footnotes upon first apperance;
• Mostly original stories crafted by professional writers teamed with pedagogical experts;
• Attractive plots;
• Authentic and engaging language;
• Fully illustrated texts with appealing layouts;
• A variety of activities with answer keys;
• Online audio with two (normal and slow) speed choices.