Chinese 5H

COURSE DESCRIPTION

大家好，欢迎加入中文五！

Hello everyone, welcome to Chinese 5!

Under the familiar topics learned in the past years, Chinese 5 is designed to deepen students' language skills in some formal settings. Students will learn more formal vocabulary and complex but practical grammar patterns to organize their presentations and conversations more efficiently and professionally.  Besides routine assignments aiming at retaining knowledge, students will be guided to complete various real-world conversation tasks. Cultural contrast and comparison are naturally embedded in our class discussions, activities, tasks, or projects.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Revisit and enhance four language skills learned from previous Chinese studies in the contexts of: Dating, Renting an Apartment, Travel, and At the Airport,

• Develop and extend four communicative skills in the contexts of First Day of School, Dormitory, At the Restaurant, Shopping Talk and Selecting Courses.

• Develop proficient and deeper conversational skills by understanding and using idioms and authentic phrases (Chinese Sayings)

• Acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through authentic media, publications or interactions with Chinese communities.

• Identify, analyze and discuss cultural perspectives as reflected in literary genres, products and practices on a wide range of cultural and social topics such as women’s roles