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