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Key facts
| Type | Weekly Classes |
|---|---|
| Location | Oxford |
| Address | Ewert House Ewert Place Summertown OX2 7DD |
| Dates | Mon 14 Jan to Mon 24 Jun 2013 Day: Monday Time of meeting: 7.00-9.00pm Number of meetings: 20 |
| Subject area(s) | Chinese |
| CATS points | 20 |
| Fees | From £295.00 |
| Application status | Course cancelled |
| Course code | O12P613WEW |
| Course contact | If you have any questions about this course, please email ppweekly@conted.ox.ac.uk. |
Overview
All the Department’s language courses are designed to help you communicate in a friendly atmosphere with an emphasis on pair and group interaction. The focus is on speaking, listening and the exploration of culture and society, backed up by an understanding of grammar. Students will be encouraged to develop their reading and writing skills in their own time and regular assignments will be set. Choosing your level.Programme details
Week 1: Introduction to the course.Week 2: Revision exercises. Warming up lesson with PinYin and dialogues.
Week 3: Learning Chinese characters (New characters and dialogues).
Week 4: More on Chinese characters (Exercises and speaking practice).
Week 5: Talk about likes and dislikes.
Week 6: More on likes and dislikes.
Week 7: Revision.
Week 8: Order simple food and drinks in a restaurant.
Week 9: More on food and drinks in a restaurant.
Week 10: Revision and role playing exercises.
Week 11: Talk about one’s own family.
Week 12: More on families.
Week 13: Talk about and compare the weather.
Week 14: More on the weather.
Week 15: Revision.
Week 16: Talk about means of transport.
Week 17: More on transport.
Week 18: Ask for information and directions.
Week 19: More on directions.
Week 20: Revision.
Course Book:
George X Zhang, Linda L. Li and Lik Suen, Chinese in Steps Vol. 1, (Cypress Book C.UK Ltd, 1st edition. 2005, 2nd edition.)
Course aims
All the Department's language courses are designed to help you communicate in a friendly atmosphere with an emphasis on pair and group interaction. The focus is on speaking, listening and the exploration of culture in society, backed up by an understanding of grammar. Students will be encouraged to develop their reading and writing skills in their own time and regular assignments will be set.Assessment methods
Most tutors will set weekly assignments to consolidate learning and allow students to study at their own pace. Some of these assignments, which may include testing listening and speaking skills, will count towards formally assessing the students’ progress.At Stages 5 & 6, students can expect to be assessed on either one 1,000 word essay or two shorter ones written in their target language.
At lower stages, students are required instead to submit for assessment a range of exercises and/or shorter pieces of work.
Teaching methods
Language classes are kept small (typically 10-15 students) in order to ensure plenty of opportunities for interaction in the target language, leading to the development of listening and speaking skills, as well as an understanding of grammar.Teaching outcomes
The following are brief indicators of what students should be able to do in each of the skills: Speaking (S), Listening (L), Reading (R), and Writing (W), by the end of the individual stages:STAGE 2
S - participate in simple prepared discussions
L - understand simple recorded material
R - understand the gist of magazine articles and simple texts
W - write informal letters and descriptive paragraphs
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Programmes including this module
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