This is the 5^th Vol. Workbook of Easy Steps to Chinese series, providing exercises closely related to the content in the 5^th Vol. Textbook. Compared with the previous four volumes, this volume puts more emphasis on the training of students’ understanding of the whole passage. So, it not only includes exercises for each lesson, 5 units of reviews and tests, and the vocabulary list indexed on pinyin, but also adds more reading comprehension exercises. The passages are longer and more difficult, in which some words not listed in the vocabulary appear. This greatly improves students reading comprehension ability and cultivates students’ overall language ability.

Yamin Ma, B.A. in English Language and Literature, and M.A. in Education, is currently a Chinese teacher in Island School, Hong Kong. Ma has gained years of experience in teaching Chinese as a foreign language and she actively keeps up with the trends of AP Chinese Test in U.S. and the IB Chinese Test in Europe. Her research covers English language teaching, Chinese language teaching and educational psychology. She has read and published a number of papers in international conferences.