Syllabus

Exploratory Chinese

       2024-2025       

Course Description: 

This course is designed for students with no prior knowledge of Chinese and Chinese culture and meets once or twice a week for one trimester. Emphasis is on communicating daily-life topics, such as basic introductions, numbers, families, and days of the week. At the end of the course, students will acquire vocabulary and sentence structures in some basic daily-life communications. Students will also be able to develop an awareness and appreciation for Chinese culture.

Course Objectives:

Develop an awareness and appreciation for Chinese and Chinese cultures and experience a taste of reading, writing, listening, and speaking in Chinese. The goal of exploratory World Languages at the middle school is to help students decide which language to study every day next year.

• Listening

  • Become sensitive to the different tones in Chinese

  • Comprehend simple sentences related to topics covered

• Speaking

  • Master over 100 words and phrases

  • Communicate about daily topics

• Reading

  • Read simple texts with Pinyin are given

• Culture

  • Understand the differences between China and American culture and appreciate Chinese culture

Course Content: 

Topics

• Greetings/Self-introduction

• Family

• Numbers 

• Dates/month

•  Colors

•  Body Parts

Materials:

• A notebook

• A laptop

• A pencil 

• A folder

GRADING:

• Assignments

• Quizzes/Tests

Required Summer Reading/Assignments: 

There is no summer reading requirement for this course.