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Chinese Language III (advanced)
 

Teacher: Candi Yang or Lin Dai

Course Outline

Chinese III is designed for students interested in a continuation of Chinese I & II, with a further development of learners’ speaking and listening skills by expanding their vocabulary and enhancing grammar awareness. The course presupposes a basic knowledge of Chinese pinyin, words, sentences, and grammar. Emphasis will be placed upon the use of Chinese in practical situations. To arouse students’ interest, we also incorporate supplementary introduction to Chinese culture as well as activities like story-telling, jokes, singing folk songs and appreciating ancient poems, etc. Besides, students will also learn to write Chinese characters. Upon completion of the courses of Chinese I, II & III, students should have learned over 1600 elementary vocabulary items along with over 1000 Chinese characters and the basic grammatical items with 300 key sentences. Therefore, they should be able to express ideas about daily life and social topics and communicate with other people.

 The following outline is only for Intensive Reading (Comprehensive) class, and it is subject to flexible reschedule and reorder as well as additions as the specific course progressing.

Unit 1
Topic: Dealing with cultural differences and getting used to the local customs

Grammar: the “把” sentence, the adverbs “更” and “最” used to express comparisons, separable disyllabic verbs and the construction “一边…, 一边…”

Unit 2

Topic: The traditional Chinese festival – Mid-Autumn Festival & chinese gift giving customs
Grammar: Using the verb “有/没有” to express comparisons, the rhetorical question, sentences containing a series of verbs and “上/开” as the resultative complements

  Unit 3
Topic: “modesty” as a worthy trait in the Chinese culture
Grammar: Sentences indicating existence or emergence, the reduplication of adjectives, the structural particle “地” and the “把” sentences

 Unit 4
Topic: the recreational activities of Beijing residents

Grammar: sentences indicating existence or emergence, “了” indicating a change of situation, the complement of state and the construction “又…又…”

  Unit 5
Topic: general information about China such as its size and population
Grammar: Enumeration of the numbers over 10,000, approximate numbers, pivotal sentences and the construction “只要…就…”

Unit 6
Topic: the different cultural views on privacy

Grammar: Structural particles “的、地、得”, summary of the “把” sentence and the adverbs “就” and “还”

  Unit 7
Topic: Environmental issues
Grammar: Potential complement, extended use of “出来”, the reduplication of nouns, measure words and numeral-measure word phrases and the construction “既…又…”

 Unit 8
Topic: A boat tour of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River

Grammar: Sentences with a subject-predicate phrase as the predicate, interrogative pronouns of indefinite denotation, “着” and “住” as the resultative complements and the subjectless sentence  

Unit 9
Topic: Generation gap and different ideas on consumption

Grammar: Interrogative pronouns of general denotation, fractions, percentages and multiples, the construction “一…也/都+没/不…” and the construction “就是…也…”

 Unit 10
Topic: The distinct features of different regions in China

Grammar: Potential complement, extended use of “起来”, the construction “一…就…” and the construction “除了…以外, 还/都/也…”
 

Unit 11
Topic: Who is going to pay the bill

Grammar: The extended use of “下去”, interrogative pronouns of general denotation, making comparisons by using the preposition “比”

 Unit 12
Topic: Chinese wedding customs

Grammar: Types of complements, flexible uses of interrogative pronouns and the adverbs “再” and “又”

 

Hours: 140 periods (45 minutes, 40 lessons)

Tuition Fee: RMB 7500

 

Chinese III (advanced) 2010 Autumn Session

 

3 Morning Section:       Monday, Wednesday, Friday        09:30 – 12:30         12 weeks           11 Oct - 31 Dec                     ¥7,500                             

5 Morning Section:       Monday-Friday                                 09:30 – 12:30          7 weeks            11 Oct - 26 Nov                      ¥7,500

Evening Section:           Monday & Wednesday                  18:30- 21:30           18 weeks           11 Oct 2010- 9 Feb 2011     ¥7,500

Weekend Section:       Saturday whole day                        09:30 - 16:30          18 weeks           9 Oct 2010- 5 Feb 2011       ¥7,500

 

Chinese III (advanced) 2010 Summer Session course I:


Morning Section:    Monday-Friday  mornings      09:30 – 12:30      4 weeks     5 July – 30 July     ¥4,500      CIM135

 

Chinese III (advanced) 2010 Summer Session course II:

 

Morning Section:   Monday-Friday  mornings      09:30 – 12:30       4 weeks      2 Aug– 27 Aug      ¥4,500     CIM135

 

Chinese III (advanced) 2010 Spring session:

 

Morning Section:   Mon, Wed & Fri mornings      09:30-12:30       12 weeks     8 Mar - 28 May      ¥4,500      CIIM135

 

ANNUAL HOLIDAYS *

There will be no lectures on scheduled Public Holidays
2010
National Day Holidays 1-5 October
Christmas Holidays 20 Dec- 9 Jan 2011
2011
Spring Festival Holidays 30 Jan-10 Feb
Labour day Holiday 1 May-6 May
Tomb sweeping day tba
Dragon Boat festival tba
Moon cake festival tba
National Day Holiday 1 October-7 October
Christmas Holidays 18 December-10 January 2012
* Subject to confirmation and change

Tuition fees may be submitted by cash, bank card or credit card. With the original receipt, a refund in full can be made if the prospective student notifies us in writing of his/her withdrawal from the course one week before the commencement date. If using a foreign bank card, a non-refundable charge of approximately 2.8% of the tuition fee (about RMB188) will be deducted by the bank to cover transaction costs.

For inquiry, please contact us at (86 21)6448 1768 or 64480011*1065, or send email to shclasses@yahoo.com.

 

Address: Room 106, No. 2088 Kaixuan Road, Shanghai (close to Panyu Rd. and Wuzhong Rd), 5 minutes walk from Yishan Rd. Station (Exit 4) or Hongqiao Rd. Station (Exit 2) of Metro Line 3 and Line 4. 

Tel: (86-21) 6448 1768     Add: Room 106, 2088 Kaixuan Rd. Shanghai (near Panyu Rd.)
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