Prerequisite for entry
Successful completion of Mandarin syllabus level 3 at 香港六合彩 Centre for Languages & International Education or a high GCSE grade (or equivalent). ?
Term duration
10 x 2-hour classes.
Aims and objectives
The aim of the course is to encourage students to use their basic knowledge of Chinese to converse reasonably fluently in Mandarin with native speakers and discuss personal, social and current issues using appropriate linguistic structures. Cultural awareness will be further developed through some authentic materials.
Functions
- Expressing one’s feelings and emotions
- Expressing praise and respects
- Talking about physical attributes skill
- Asking for and giving medical aid
- -Expressing concerns, worries, seeking advice
- Expressing surprise and reassurance, talking about life expecting
Course content
Main topics/themes to be covered:
- Life style
- Environment projects
- Shaolin Kung fu
- Parts of body, injuries
- Emotions and feeling
- Dating and relationships
Linguistic structures/ Phonetics
- Confidence with the 4 tones
- Pinyin pronunciation
Grammar
- Ba sentences
- Using geng and zui to express comparisons
- Using you and meiyou to express comparisons
- Explicit comparisons
- Potential complements
- The difference between 刚 and刚才
- ‘even if’ 就算……也
- Forming rhetorical questions 难道
- The conjunctive 既……也
Learning resources
Books
Course book: <<Discover China - 3>> (From Unit 7 to Unit 12) Macmillan Education????????????????
Bilingual Dictionaries
- Langenscheidt dictionary
- Macmillan-FLTRP Chinese Character Dictionary
Websites
In addition there are supplementary materials for self-study in the .