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Tones Trainer Workbook

48 printable pages that fix tone 3, 不 and 一 — homework you no longer have to write.

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Tones Trainer Workbook

Page 4 · Tracing the tone contours

  • Trace 妈 mā · 麻 má · 马 mǎ · 骂 mà across the staircase grid
  • Twelve syllables per row, three rows — roughly four minutes of homework
  • Answer key on page 44
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Page 9 · Circle the one you hear

  • 买 mǎi / 卖 mài · 水饺 shuǐjiǎo / 睡觉 shuìjiào · 汤 tāng / 糖 táng
  • 30 items, read aloud by the teacher from the script on page 45
  • Score box at the top for tracking week to week
最小对立
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Page 17 · The tone pair table

  • All twenty two-syllable tone combinations, one example word each
  • 第一声 + 第一声: 今天 jīntiān · 第三声 + 第二声: 美国 Měiguó
  • Students record themselves and tick the pairs that match
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About this material

Tones do not improve because a teacher explains them well. They improve because a student does five focused minutes a day for two months. This workbook is those five minutes, already written: 48 pages of tracing, minimal pairs, dictation and sentence marking, sequenced so week eight is genuinely harder than week one.

The listening exercises come with a teacher script at the back, so you read the items aloud and no audio file has to survive a classroom sound system. Every exercise has an answer key. There is a progress tracker on the last page where students log the score and the two tones they keep missing, which turns a vague complaint into something you can actually target next lesson.

Print it as a booklet for a whole class, or send single pages as weekly homework. One PDF with printing permission enabled, licensed for every student you teach.

Topics covered

Tone drillsMinimal pairsDictationTone sandhiHomework
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  • 48 printable pages, booklet-ready A4 layout
  • Full answer key for every exercise
  • Teacher read-aloud script for all listening items
  • Eight-week progress tracker students fill in themselves
  • Print permission for every class you teach

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