Key facts

Type	Weekly Classes
Location	Oxford
Address	Ewert House Ewert Place Summertown Oxford
Dates	Thu 17 Jan to Thu 13 Jun 2013 Day: Thursday 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	O12P842WEW
Course contact	If you have any questions about this course, please email ppweekly@conted.ox.ac.uk.

Overview

**PLEASE NOTE - This course will now commence on January 17 2013 and run through to June 13 2013. There will be NO Third Term offered.** 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: Breaking the ice and introductions
Week 2: Warming up lesson
Week 3: Learning how to ask for a price and goods
Week 4: More on prices and goods
Week 5: Learning to tell the time and to ask about opening and closing times
Week 6: More on telling the time
Week 7: Asking about distances and more detailed directions
Week 8: More on distances and directions
Week 9: Asking about exchange rates and currencies
Week 10: More on exchange rates

Week 11: Asking for and giving specific information of a past action
Week 12: More on past actions
Week 13: Commenting on an action and its duration
Week 14: More on the duration of an action
Week 15: Talking about activities in progress
Week 16: More on activities in progress
Week 17: Making a comment with more than one attribute
Week 18: More on making comments
Week 19: Expressing immediate future actions, past activities and consecutive actions in sequence
Week 20: More on expressing different types of actions

Course Book:
Xinsheng, G. Li, L. and Suen, L., Chinese in Steps Vol. 2 (Cypress Book C. UK Ltd., 1st Edition 2005, 2nd Edition 2006)

Staff

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 3
S – communicate clearly in a wide range of situations
L – listen intensively and listen for pleasure
R – enjoy reading simple texts without dependence on a dictionary
W – summarise and produce short narratives

Fee options

Programme Fee

EU Fee: £295.00

Non-EU Fee: £295.00

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Programmes including this module

This module can be studied as part of these programmes:

• Undergraduate accredited short courses in Chinese