Chinese for Non-Chinese Language Background Students VI

• to further enhance students’ confidence and competence in Chinese communication through practice with particular emphasis on both oral and written communications involving complex language structures, functions, and situations, and advanced comprehensive listening, speaking, reading and writing skills training;
• to help them further develop listening and speaking skills for communicating in Putonghua for social, professional and business purposes through a range of learning activities; and
• to further enhance their reading and writing skills through different learning tasks and learning activities.

Listening:

• understand common words, dialogues and phrases about college majors
• understand students’ learning experience and feelings
• understand the dialogues and paragraphs between study and employment
• understand the dialogue between climate change and environmental protection
• understand the words of natural scenery of the four seasons.

Speaking:

• describe customs and traditions in your hometown and give explanations
• describe the climate change and natural scenery
• articulating arguments in oral presentations: achieving and demonstrating communicative functions such as description, explanation, exposition, illustration with clarity and coherence
• make suggestions and advice about environmental protection

Reading:

• retrieve key information from a narrative text on overseas study experiences
• retrieve key information from an expository text on environmental pollution

Writing:

• recognize up to 1000 most frequently used Chinese characters toward proficiency in the four skills areas
• write short passages about personal strengths and challenges in the job market
• write an exposition on the review for garbage pollution in Hong Kong to the target readers