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Language: Chinese II (Elective)

“A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is ignorant of his own.” Johann Goethe

Overview

This advanced Chinese unit is consecutive to Chinese I. It is the second part of the LOTE curriculum taught at Year 9, designed to engage and inspire the students in learning Chinese. Students cannot elect to study this subject if Semester 1 Chinese has not been completed. This second semester of LOTE challenges the learner in using Chinese in a variety of personal contexts, through the medium of speech and the written word.

In this unit, students will begin to learn strategies for inter-personal communication by responding to questions, information gathering and the presentation of facts and details.  Students will build upon the vocabulary and structure from previous studies in Chinese.

Aims

  • To further enhance the students’ understanding of the structure and flow of Chinese
  • To lay a foundation for further studies in Chinese
  • To give the students an understanding of China, their cultures, traditions and values
  • To encourage the students to develop a competence in the usage of Chinese in both spoken and written form
  • To help the students understand the multilingual and multicultural Australian society

Topics Include

  • Making Phone Calls
  • Eating
  • Weather

Time Allocation

  • 5 periods per cycle for Semester 2

Prerequisites

  • Chinese I

Requirements

  • Levy Cost

Assessment

  • Oral and written communication activities
  • Classroom work and activities, workbook/games/role-plays
  • Ability to respond to Chinese instructions
  • Tests and exams
  • Incursion and excursion reflections

“The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” That is why it was called Babel – because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.” Genesis 11:6-7, 9