Intermediate – step 3 

Course Summary 

This course is a continuation of Intermediate – step 2. Students continue to develop all four skills starting to slowly close the gap between their receptive and productive skills. The development of listening and speaking skills will remain a focus of the course. Compared to lower levels of courses, slightly more emphasis will be attached to the recognition and writing of characters. Students are encouraged to reflect and internalise grammatical devices and structures that they have studied and actively use them in conversations and writings. 

Duration: 

10 weeks, 20 hours 

Learning Objectives 

Unit	Functions	Language Points	Cultural Content
9.Confucius Moving His House	explain the allegorical sayings and classical Chinese;   introduce your own or others’ hobbies and interests	the usages of common prepositions；……X是X，可……；除了……（以外），……	Confucius and Confucianism
10.Part-time Work and Part-time Study	talk about part-time job and employment;  compare the vocational attitude between the Chinese young people	the usages of common adverbs	the employment condition for Chinese college students
11.I Borrow, I Return	discuss the relations between parents and children;  compare the understandings of filial piety between China and other countries	the common conjunctions；“是”表示强调肯定；不论/不管……都/也……；不就……了（吗）？	traditional Chinese family values
12.Have a Happy Holiday	talk about festivals and ways of celebrating them;  compare Chinese festivals and Western ones	cohesion and coherence of a discourse；这样一来	modern Chinese festivals and ways of celebrating them

Note: This course includes a total of 4 units: unit 9, 10 and 11 include a conversational text and a narrative text, unit 12 includes a narrative text. The teacher may adjust the content by adding or reducing certain content based on the students’ language proficiency levels. Normally, actual teaching content will be selected from what is presented above. 

Teaching Methods 

The teacher will alternate between common language teaching methods such as the communicative approach, audio-lingual method, audiovisual method, and grammar-translation method. Specific teaching methods may vary slightly depending on the format of the class, the content of each lesson, or the difficulty of the language points. 

Learning Materials 

Textbook: New Contemporary Chinese (Book 3, Units 9-12) 

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