Step Up with Chinese is a ground-breaking Chinese language textbook for secondary students with little or no Chinese language background. It is learner friendly, task-centered and designed to progressively develop learners¿ four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Instead of the traditional text-vocabulary-grammar approach, each chapter is broken down into small chunks of patterns to learn and practice. This step-by-step approach helps students progress in stages, from bite-size tasks to lengthier and more complex assignments. Each step systematically builds upon vocabulary and sentence patterns learned in the previous step.