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Curriculum

New students with little knowledge of Chinese language.

Course Description

Students in Beginning A/B will learn the following subjects (minor variability to teacher’s teaching materials):

  1. Student’s Personal and School Information
  2. Numbers, Colors and Shapes
  3. Ways of Addressing and Greeting People
  4. My Family
  5. Time, Seasons and Weather
  6. Festivals
  7. Food
  8. Clothing, Furniture & Appliance
  9. Birds & Animals
  10. Communication
  11. Chinese History, Culture & Festivals

Students in beginning classes are promoted to Intermediate A/B.

Course Description

This course expands and builds upon what the student learned in Beginning A/B.
Student’s in Intermediate A/B will learn the following subjects:

  1. School Life
  2. Daily Life
  3. Directions and House Plan
  4. Shopping
  5. Eating Out and Making Phone Calls
  6. Transportation and Travel
  7. Visiting Friends and Relatives
  8. Class instruction, quizzes, and exams are based upon practicing students’ listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translating skills. Student workbooks explain and present exercises on Chinese grammar. Students also repeat writing Chinese characters to promote memorization.
  9. Class textbooks are made to build upon previous lessons.

Students are promoted to Advanced A/B after earning satisfactorily passing grades and satisfactorily passing the competency exam in Intermediate A/B.

Course Description

Expands and builds upon what the student learned in Beginning A/B & Intermediate A/B.
Students in Advanced A/B learn the following subjects:

  1. Body Parts
  2. Feelings/Emotions and Diseases
  3. Hobbies and Sports
  4. Entertainments
  5. Chinese History
  6. Trips and Vacations
  7. Lend & Borrow and Lost & Found
  8. Stories of Chinese Idioms and Proverbs
  9. In addition to the above topics, students can also learn the differences in writing and pronunciation of some words and terms between Taiwan and China. Students continue to learn grammars in making sentences, essay writing, comparison of things, and translations from English to Chinese or vice versa. Students also practice to write new Chinese characters and know their radicals and measure words that pair with them. Frequently practice using a combination of Pinyin and characters.
  10. Class instruction, quizzes, and exams are based upon practicing students’ listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translating skills. Students’ workbooks explain and present exercises on Chinese grammar. Students also repeat writing Chinese characters to promote memorization.
  11. Class textbooks are made to build upon previous lessons.