Teaching and Learning

The Asia Education Foundation (AEF)  supports the studies of Asia in primary and secondary schools by providing educators with:

  • downloadable online lesson plans and tutorials;
  • curriculum resources for a variety of learning areas and year levels;
  • professional learning opportunities in Australia and abroad; and
  • an email discussion group for over 1,500 educators that offers teachers a forum to learn about current education events, discuss teaching ideas and share curriculum resources.

ABC program Real Chinese

The NSW DET has a Chinese webpage in both the
primary and secondary section of the Curriculum K-12
Directorate and it’s available for all to view. The site contains unit plan for travel and holidays and the term bulletins contain useful list of web sites

The NALSAS Chinese and Japanese Years 5-8 Resources

Content can be accessed in the following ways:

1. Home Page – Top Bar Menu – Online Language Resources

2. Home Page – Left Menu – Curriculum Materials

This website is a portal to lots of really useful sites

Listening activities, cultural information, short stories and lessons. 

Lessons, film reviews, idomatic expressions etc

A major Chinese learning site: suggest Beginners work through all of the Chengo series and their associated activities

BEIJING, July 10 (Xinhuanet) – The largest website focusing on teaching Chinese and promoting Chinese culture

    The portal website, the Chinese Language Website, serves as a window for people around the world to learn Chinese and experience Chinese culture. At the same time, it is considered a base for Chinese to study foreign languages and better understand Chinese and foreign cultures.

    Using different languages, the website provides professional products for teaching or learning Chinese for users with different backgrounds at various levels. Users all over the world can easily study

Chinese and communicate with each other through the website and interactive communities.

    The virtual interactive community on the net supported by the website is titled “Experiencing China”, from which registered users can
appreciate Chinese culture, communicate with each other and learn Chinese easily and enjoyably through its specially designed games.

    The website updates up to the minute news regarding China’s social development, shows picturesque Chinese landscapes and reveals rich local customs. In addition, users can deeply experience Chinese culture through blogs and wikis.

Jess McCulloch's blog for teachers of Chinese.

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