FSI. Standard Chinese. Module 1 (text + workbook + audio)

Foreign Service Institute. 1978. -88c.FSI Standard Chinese: A Modular Approach
The focus of this course is on understanding in practical situations, and teaches Mandarin Chinese, the official dialect of the People's Republic of China. The material is organized into modules that deal with concrete situations or language topics; you select the modules that you want to study in the order that you prefer. Each Core module consists of tapes, a student textbook, and a workbook, and has from four to eight units. It is recommended that at least Modules 1 and 2 (Orientation, Biographic Information), a third module of your choice, and the Resource Module be studied to achieve basic proficiency in the language. And now we have FSI Chinese in a Digital Edition CD-ROM, featuring audio in MP3 format and text in PDF!
ModulesEach course is divided into Core Modules, Resource Modules, and Optional Modules.Core ModulesThe Core modules for the course are based on the following situations: 1. Orientation (9 cassettes)
Talking about who you are and where you are from.2. Talking about your background, family, studies, and occupation and about your visit to China.3. Money (17 cassettes)
Making purchases and changing money.4. Directions (15 cassettes)
Asking directions in a city or in a building.5. Transportation (22 cassettes)
Taking buses, taxis, trains, and planes, including finding out schedule information, buying tickets, and making reservations.6. Arranging a Meeting (22 cassettes)
Arranging a business meeting or a social get-together, changing the time of an appointment, and declining an invitation.7. Society (10 cassettes)
Talking about families, relationships between people, cultural roles in traditional society, and cultural trends in modern society.8. Travelling In China (10 cassettes)
Making travel arrangements and visiting a kindergarten, the Great Wall, the Ming Tombs, a commune, and a factory.9. Life In China (11 cassettes)
Talking about daily life in Beijing street committees, leisure activities, traffic and transportation, buying and rationing, housing.Each Core module consists of tapes, a student textbook, and a workbook, and has from four to eight units. A module also includes:Objectives: The module objectives are listed at the beginning of the text for each module. Read these before starting work on the first unit to fix in your mind what you are trying to accomplish and what you will have to do to pass the test at the end of the module.Target Lists: These follow the objectives in the text. They summarize the language content of each unit in the form of typical questions and answers on the topic of that unit. Each sentence is given both in romanized Chinese and in English. Turn to the appropriate Target List before, during, or after your work on a unit, whenever you need to pull together what is in the unit.Review Tapes (R-1): The Target List sentences are given on these tapes. Except in the short Orientation Module, there are two R-l tapes for each mcdule.Criterion Test: After studying each module, you will take a Criterion Test to find out which module objectives you have met and which you need to work on before beginning to study another module.
Resource ModulesThe Resource modules teach particular systems in the language, such as numbers and dates. As you proceed through a situational core module, you will occasionally take time out to study part of a resource module. (You will begin the first three of these while studying the Orientation module). Because of their centrality to the language they are sold together rather than separately, in a package comprised of a text and 9 cassettes.