Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Co
Sijia Guo
Contact via 9850 7023
W6A 228
Monday 1
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
Permission of Executive Dean of Faculty
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit introduces students with no prior knowledge of the language to basic spoken Chinese. Upon completion of the unit students will be equipped with basic and practical oral/aural communication skills and cultural awareness for effective communication; students will be able to converse in simple, everyday conversational Chinese at an elementary level. Students will not be required to read and write Chinese characters.
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Name | Weighting | Due |
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Class Test | 40% | Week 6 and Week 11 |
Preparation and participation | 10% | Throughout the semester |
Oral examination | 20% | Week 8 and Week 12 |
Final examination | 30% | Week 13 |
Due: Week 6 and Week 11
Weighting: 40%
Due: Throughout the semester
Weighting: 10%
Due: Week 8 and Week 12
Weighting: 20%
Group oral presentation will be held in week 8 and individual speaking test is in week 12
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 30%
Scurfield and Song: Teach Yourself Beginners Mandarin Chinese.
Week |
Week Beginning |
Lesson in Textbook |
Content |
1 |
4 Aug |
Pronunciation |
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2 |
11 Aug |
Lesson 1 |
Ni hao! Hello! Saying hello and goodbye, exchanging greetings, saying please and thank you, making a simple apology and observing basic courtesies. |
3 |
18 Aug |
Lesson 2 |
Ni jiao shenme? What’s your name? Saying who you are, making simple introductions, asking who other people are, addressing people correctly and denying something. |
4 |
25 Aug |
Lesson 3 |
Ni shi naguo ren? Where are you from? Saying where you come from and what nationality you are, asking for and giving an address, numbers 0-10, asking for and giving a telephone number and filling in a form. |
5 |
2 Sep |
Lesson 4 |
Ni you xiongdi jiemei ma? Do you have brothers and sisters? Talking about yourself and your family, asking other people about their family, asking someone if they are married and/ or have children, saying how old you are, asking how old someone is, and counting up to 100.
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6 |
8 Sep |
Lesson 5 |
Ji dian le? What time is it now? Days of the week, months of the year, telling the time, asking what time it is, useful expressions of time, giving the date and making arrangements.
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7 |
15 Sep |
Lesson 6 and Class Test up to Lesson 5 |
Ni jintian xiang zuo shenme? What do you want to do today? Saying what you want to do, understanding and asking for advice, expressing similarities, comparing and contrasting. |
Two weeks’ break
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8 |
6 Oct |
Lesson 7 Oral presentation |
Duoshao qian? How much is it? Asking for things in shops, asking the price, stating quantities, numbers 100-1,000; expressing the distance between two points. |
9 |
13 Oct |
Lesson 8 |
Zenmeyang? What’s it like? Asking about sizes, talking about clothes and shoes, describing things, expressing likes and dislikes and making comparisons. |
10 |
20 Oct |
Lesson 9 |
Zenme zou? How do I get there? Asking for and understanding directions, using public transport, asking people if they have ever done something, expressing how long something happens for. |
11 |
27 Oct |
Lesson 10 and class test on words, sentences and grammar up to Lesson 9. |
Nin xiang chi shenme? What would you like to eat? Ordering a meal and drinks, paying the bill, saying you have given up something (such as smoking), more about verb endings. |
12 |
3 Nov |
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Individual speaking test: chose one of the topics covered by 11 lessons. |
13 |
10 Nov |
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Written exam. |
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