Chinese Breeze - Graded Reader Series Level 2 [500 Word Level]: Our geese have gone [2nd Edition]. ISBN: 9787301291634

Format: Book + online audio
ISBN-10: 7-301-29163-9, 7301291639
ISBN-13: 978-7-301-29163-4, 9787301291634
English Title: Chinese Breeze: Our geese have gone (2nd Edition)
Level: Chinese Breeze - Graded Reader Series Level 2 (500 word level)
Chinese Title: 汉语风 - 中文分级系列读物 - 第2级 (500词级): 我家的大雁飞走了 (地二版)
Binding: softcover
Pages: 71
Shipping Weight: 160g
Size: 140mm x 202mm
Language: simplified Chinese, vocabulary additionally in pinyin and English
Year of Publication: 2018
Publisher: Peking University Press

Our geese have gone, from Chinese Breeze - Graded Reader Series Level 2 (500 Word Level) (2nd Edition). Including online audio stream with normal and slow speed choices. 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. Otherwise check other volumes of Chinese Breeze at a different level.

二十五年前, 村里的人们还不知道大雁 (yan: wild goose) 是应该保护 (baohu: protect) 的动物 (dongwu: animal)。爷爷最会打雁, 打了大雁拿到城里, 卖了钱给我上学。

Twenty-five years ago, people in my village did not know that wild geese should be under protection from hunting. Among the hunters, my grandpa was the best. He brought the geese he shot back to town and sold them to pay for my schooling.

可是,有一天, 爷爷没有打到雁,因为雁队里有了一只很聪明的头雁 (touyan: lead goose)。在头雁带着雁队要飞走的时候, 一只鹰 (ying: eagle) 飞了过来, 飞向一只小雁! 鹰太大了, 头雁和鹰打了一会儿, 伤 (shang: injured) 得很重。

However, grandpa did not shoot one single goose on that day. It was all because of the vigilant lead goose in the flock. But at the moment when the flock was flying away, an eagle came. The eagle was hungry for young geese and pounced on one! The lead goose fought and fought with the eagle. But the eagle was too strong, and the lead goose was injured.

爷爷帮助头雁, 打走了鹰, 让头雁住在家里。头雁的女朋友也来找它了。最会打雁的爷爷有了两个大雁朋友……

Without hesitation, grandpa repelled the eagle away. He brought the wounded lead goose home and took good care of it. Before long, the lead goose´s mate flew over to join him in our home. Grandpa, the best hunter of wild geese, now had two goose friends…

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 stream with two (normal and slow) speed choices.