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Communication Skills Development
- Expresses simple complete thoughts in guided, teacher-led self-expression.
- Displays knowledge of high frequency associations.
- Interacts spontaneously with peers and teacher at a basic level.
- Expresses partial and short complete thoughts, with the help of gestures.
Literacy Skills Development
- Understands the vocabulary within a play.
- Memorises, rehearses and dramatises a play with the class, in pairs and in small groups.
- Completes more open-ended oral and written language manipulation activities based on stories.
- Demonstrates an inductive awareness of some basic, high frequency grammatical concepts, such as plural nouns, gender, measure words and the use of some interrogatives.
- Writes and types short Pinyin texts with the aid of a word list, for factual and creative purposes.
- Recognises and copies more characters, with an awareness of correct stroke order and proportion.
Intercultural Knowledge and Language Awareness
- Uses and evaluates effective language learning strategies e.g. grouping of characters.
- Demonstrates knowledge of aspects of Chinese culture through mini projects.
- Inductively identifies aspects of China through the viewing of popular contemporary TV programs, animations and songs.
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