Chinese for Non-Chinese Language Background Students III

• to further enhance students’ confidence and competence in Chinese communication through practice with particular emphasis on both oral and written communications involving gradually increasing difficulties in terms of language structure, function and situation, and comprehensive listening, speaking, reading and writing skills training;
• to help them further develop listening and speaking skills for communicating in Putonghua for both social and business purposes through a range of learning activities; and
• to enhance their reading and writing skills through different learning tasks and activities.

Phonology:

• use Hanyu Pinyin to learn to pronounce unfamiliar word and sentences.
• use appropriate pronunciation and intonation everyday conversation.

Vocabulary:

• recognize around 300 most frequently used Chinese characters.
• understand and use 300 words and expressions commonly used in daily communication.

Listening:

• understand clear, slow, standard speech related to personal information, Putonghua learning experience, life and study at HKUST.
• understand classroom instruction.
• understand the doctor’s simple questions and diagnoses of the doctor.
• obtain concrete information from conversations involving health, feelings and suggestions.
• seek concrete information from conversations involving people’s physical features and color, shape of an object.

Speaking:

• introduce oneself and inquire about others with more detail information, including: program, major, hobbies and the reason of study in HK or UST etc.;.
• describe past experience in learning Putonghua;.
• make suggestions and advice on learning Putonghua.
• share experience of living and studying in Hong Kong.
• describing your symptoms and feelings.
• make suggestions and advice on how to keep healthy.
• ask questions about health.
• list exercises you do to keep fit.
• describe people’s physical features.
• make a simple account of people’s clothing.
• describe color, shape of an object.

Reading:

• retrieve key information from texts on personal.
• get the gist of texts on physical appearance of people and objects.
• guess the meaning of familiar signs in everyday life.

Writing:

• write simple sentence closely related to personal information.
• write two paragraphs closely related to personal life.
• write an email for sick leave to your teacher.
• write two paragraphs to introduce a person or a thing.