Advanced Chinese

Common Unit

Prerequisite

Year 7 Chinese advanced

Unit Description

Year 8 Advanced Chinese is offered to students who would like to continue to develop their language proficiency although they already have Chinese as a home language. The course will be more focused in the character writing, reading and writing skills. It will also broaden their culture understanding about traditional and contemporary China.

In this unit students:

• deepen their understanding of cultural elements, especially about friendship, school subjects and campus, sports and Martial Arts, transportation and travel in China;
• deepen their understanding of Chinese characters and learn to read and write short Chinese essays about their personal world;
• prepare oral presentations and discussions;
• develop skills through a wide range of activities including language games, discussions, presentations, videos, writing tasks and computer-assisted tasks.

Assessment

• Formative vocabulary and grammar tasks.
• Aural and reading comprehension tasks.
• Oral tasks.
• Writing tasks.
• Cultural projects.