COURSE CONTENT:

• Teaching students Mandarin Chinese,
• Ensuring language scores  necessary for achieving Chinese basic-level speaking and listening skills,
• Strengthening various interactive activities allowing students to communicate using Chinese,
• Gaining the basic knowledge of Chinese culture and obtaining international perspectives and intercultural awareness.

COURSE OBJECTIVE:

(Listening) Students will be able to distinguish the differences between 4 intonation patterns in Chinese, and the beginning and endings of words in phonics.

(Reading) Students will be able to pronounce 4 different intonation patterns and beginning and ending of this intonation, read short dialogues provided in materials and multi-media resources, recognize simple Chinese characters, and infer the meaning of the relevant origin.

(Speaking) Students will be able to make everyday conversations about their families and themselves, and ask and tell  the  time using basic grammar and sentence structure.

(Speaking) Students will be able to introduce themselves and describe their surroundings, given information about where they work and their professions.

(Writing) Students will be able to rewrite correctly basic characters they have learned in the classroom, create simple phrases and sentence structure with Pinyin. At the same time, draw letters with the same order.