Chinese 1

Key facts

Type	Weekly Classes
Location	Oxford
Address	Ewert House Ewert Place Summertown Oxford
Dates	Mon 30 Sep 2013 to Mon 17 Mar 2014 Day: Monday Time of meeting: 7.00-9.00pm Number of meetings: 20
Subject area(s)	Chinese
CATS points	20
Fees	From £305.00
Application status	Applications being accepted
Course code	O13P855WEW
Course contact	If you have any questions about this course, please email ppweekly@conted.ox.ac.uk.

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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.

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Programme details

Week 1: A brief introduction to the Chinese language, introduction pinyin and four tones
Week 2: Exchanging greetings, introducing oneself and asking people names
Week 3: Asking for and giving information about own nationality, where one lives and where one is from
Week 4: Asking and answering questions about occupations and family members
Week 5: Describing one's family members and their occupations
Week 6: Describing people's appearances and writing a personal profile
Week 7: Review 1
Week 8: Asking for and giving information about contact numbers and addresses
Week 9: Asking for and saying dates and days.
Week 10: Making invitations

Week 11: Asking for and telling the time. Making appointments
Week 12: Talking about clothes, asking for items and prices
Week 13: Review 2.
Week 14: Describing locations, places and types of living accommodation
Week 15: Asking for and giving directions
Week 16: Talking about types of transport
Week 17: Talking about likes and dislikes
Week 18: Describing one's recreational activities
Week 19: Asking and answering questions about holiday plans
Week 20: Review 3
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Course Book:
Chinese in Steps vol.1 - Student Book . Author: George X. ZHANG, Linda LI, Lik SUEN Publisher: Sinolingua London ISBN: 9781907838101
Year: 2011

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Staff

Mrs Yue Zhao

Role: Tutor

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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 1
S - participate in simple everyday conversation
L - understand simple messages and conversations
R - obtain specific information from basic written texts
W - produce short texts

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