Whats the Different between the new Chinese textbook and the old ones?
1) New Chinese Textbook are more systematic in its approach to skill acquisition.
You will see some sections are on conversation, some on composition (you start sentence making in Primary 3, then paragraphs (like diary writing etc) in Primary 4 and now Primary 5 is focus on composition structure and writing methods.) There is a section with video and you describe the video (4 pictures) with a sharing of the events that happened in the video. Regarding comprehension skills, the new textbook tried to explain a storyline using Data structure, its nice.
2) New textbook have a different background color for special sentence structure like how I highlight good sentences, and only some more advanced words have Hanyu Pinyin.
3) New Chinese Textbook 5A has only one less chapter than the Higher Chinese Textbook. This is quite different from the 3-4 more chapters in the Old Higher Chinese Textbook.
(* Chapter 5 in Higher Chinese Textbook is not in the Chinese Textbook.)
The New Textbook is more lively as it has letters, poems, interesting articles about whales (like learning how to say big numbers in perspective.)
As usual, this is the MOE reading and studying site which can take your children into a new world of Chinese Study.
MOE XueLe website
MOE Approved Mother Tongue E-Dictionary List
2019 approved E-dictionary
1) Besta All Pass 2 or 3
2) HansVision PX2131
3) ZZ.New-A+
4) HansVision PX2201
5) HansVision PX2181
So Thank you for Reading
