Discover China recognizes the challenges of Chinese and helps to make learning and teaching effective, meaningful and enjoyable.

Discover China is specially designed for young adult and adult learners and employs a communicative approach to language learning. Emphasis is placed on pair work, group work and on a variety of speaking and listening activities to help students become confident Chinese language speakers.

Discover China Newly Revised Edition gives students a comprehensive, integrated and systematic introduction to the language, and includes:

• Student Book, Workbook and Teacher Book all available on Macmillan Education Everywhere: access the platform anytime, anywhere, and from any device.
• A communicative approach encourages student to use the language in real-life situations and provides them with the tools they need to communicate fluently.
• New contemporary content and real-life photographs encourage students to learn about culture and life in modern day China.
• Real-world contexts that students can relate to present key vocabulary and language points for use in day-to-day situations.
• Structured learning based on the sequence of presentation, practice and production enables effective language learning - lessons move from controlled practice to personalised tasks., which facilitates effective learning of the language
• An inductive approach to grammar encourages students to identify grammatical patterns and rules in targeted language samples.
• High frequency characters are grouped together with common radicals within the context of the unit theme for meaningful and integrated character writing practice.
• Cultural Corner sections in each unit promote insights into Chinese culture and a deeper understanding of this remarkable country and language.
• Extra pair work activities for each unit, provide additional communicative speaking practice,
• Supported by abundant resources including workbooks, teacher’s books, assessment tasks, and audio resources and extra speaking activities – the support materials allow both teacher-guided learning in the classroom and self-teaching at a pace suited to the individual student