Mandarin Beginners Stage 2

This course is a continuation of Mandarin Beginners Stage 1 or equivalent.

This course will be covering:

1. more Chinese characters

2. Put characters into a simple sentences

3. Distinguish the structure of Chinese sentence from English one.

Please Bring:

• Easy Steps to CHINESE ( SIMPLIFIED CHARACTERS VERSION) by Yamin Ma and Xinying Li. There are two books one is TEXTBOOK and another is WORKBOOK. They are published by BEIJING LANGUAGE AND UNIVERSITY. The students will be able to purchase on line for example Bookdepository, Amazon or from Abbey Book Store in the city. Ordering on line is much cheaper than from Abbey’s.
• Notepad and pen

This course is delivered once a week over a period of 8 weeks.

• Alphabet/Characters – Identification and Pronunciation (vowels, consonants, tones in words and structures).
• Greetings (meeting people) – Introducing and describing yourself and others.
• Asking and responding: your and someone’s name; country of origin; your well being (for example ‘how are you?’ ‘where are you from?’ or ‘what’s your name?’).
• Using basic communicative expressions in formal and familiar forms
• Small talk – idioms
• Time – time of the day, days of the week, months; birthdays
• Numbers – For example telephone number, address, money, age
• Cultural Perspective – geography, demography, and social customs
• Practice – Some language learning/study strategies
• Greetings and describing yourself and others, professions, finding out more about somebody
• Restaurants – ordering food, drinks etc.
• Directions
• Likes and dislikes, hobbies, activities, negatives, agreeing and disagreeing, personal opinions, social life, daily activities and routines, family and friends
• Grammar practice, pronouns, possessives, demonstratives, present and past time relations, singular and plural
• Practice, dialogues in formal and informal context – role plays, strategies for language learning, reading text