Chinese Mandarin Teaching Resources

Finding appropriate teaching materials can sometimes prove difficult. Cactus has carefully selected readily available online teaching resources for Chinese Mandarin including e-books, audio-visual materials, worksheets and lessons plans. These can be used as a useful support for your lessons – use our Chinese Mandarin teaching resources in your one-to-one and group classes.

General

Project Gutenberg
Free e-books in both Cantonese and Mandarin.

Chinese Learner
Speaking, writing, and reading resources; grammar, songs.

Audio/Visual

Librivox
Free and downloadable audio books.

Day Up Chinese
Audio recording and dialogues with common vocabulary.

Vocabulary/Grammar

Quizlet
Vocabulary training for in-class activities. Teachers can create an account for free and create their own vocabulary lists which the students can use. They can also invite their students into a group to give them online tasks or provide them with exercises.

MDBG Dictionary
English-Chinese online bilingual dictionary.

Learning Chinese by Guihua Zhu
Online games and exercises to develop students’ vocabulary and grammar knowledge. Also included useful exercises to practice the tones.