Course Summary
This course is the continuation of Advanced 1. Students continue to develop all the four skills. The gap between their receptive and productive skills is further closed. The development of listening and speaking skills will remain a focus of the course, and teachers will at the same time encourage students to use Chinese characters in reading and writing. Students are encouraged to reflect and internalise grammatical devices and structures that they have studied and actively use them in conversations and writings. Topics covered in the textbook can also prepare students to use Chinese for work-related purposes.
Duration:
10 weeks, 20 hours
Learning Objectives
| Unit | Functions | Language Points | Cultural Content |
| 10.Simple Is Best | talk about different lifestyles and reasons;
use coherent discourse to express personal opinions |
看在X的面子上;放着X不Y; 宁愿A也（不）B, etc. | Chinese views on the harmony between man and nature and ecological conservation |
| 11.Life and Death | talk about life and death;
express different views in a debate |
correlative words and complex sentences; 以X为Y; V+一X是一X; X也X不得，Y也Y不得, etc. | Han people’s views on life and death |
| 12.Who Speaks More Directly? | discuss cultural differences and cultural integration;
use complex sentences to write paragraphs |
往往 and 常常; the sentence pattern “……，（更）何况……”; abbreviated compound sentence, etc. | the history of Chinese and Western cultural exchanges |
Note: This course includes a total of 3 units: unit 10&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 4 (to complete: Lesson 10-12)
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