SY 2014-2015
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COURSE TITLE:
Mandarin Chinese II
PREREQUISITE:
Mandarin Chinese I
DESCRIPTION:
Students will review, strengthen and amplify the basics of Chinese Level I in this
course. The basic objectives are to continue to help each student attain an acceptable
degree of proficiency in the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing,
and to present the language within the context of the contemporary Chinese culture.
Chinese characters will be reviewed and more characters introduced systematically as
they relate to the listening/speaking activities conducted throughout the course.
MAIN TOPICS:
 Greetings and Introductions
 Emotions
 Restaurants, Food and Culture
 Interests and Leisure Activities
 Medical Care
 School buildings and directions
 Seasons and Weather
 Cities, Places, Activities, and
 Natural Resources
Transportation
 Geographic Features
 Travel, Money and Shopping
 House & Furnishing
 Entertainment
Listening
Students will further refine listening skills through teacher presentations, peer
conversations, presentations and multimedia.
Students will improve the skill of
differentiation between formal and informal exchanges and demonstrate
comprehension via various classroom activities of the topics covered in the curriculum.
Students will listen carefully to the various tonalities in sound and intonation patterns
in order to process reproduction of sounds, words, and phrases correctly.
Speaking
Students will sustain dialogue on selected topics, communication ideas in
extemporaneous presentations, classroom discussions and role-playing.
Students will
continue to refine pronunciation, rhythm and intonation while exhibiting the use of
Chinese in classroom communication.
Students will demonstrate attention to
accuracy of register in introducing self and expressing greetings, ask and answer
questions, and perform in rehearsed and spontaneous situations with the topics at hand.
Accurate pronunciation and tonality is a definite component of this skill.
Reading
Students will learn to recognize written Chinese characters and their various sounds,
pictorial and cultural connections, and relationships to words/phrases previously
acquired through listening and speaking. Students will be expected to master Chinese
characters as they are introduced in a variety of realistic situations in classroom
activities so that they are comfortable with reading at a pace similar to that of
conversation discourse learned at the speaking level.
Writing
Students will learn to reproduce in correct stroke order all Chinese characters related to
the topics of study in individual, word, and phrase form. It is important for students to
master each character as it is introduced since they shall be components necessary to
connect to future words/phrases in topics of study.
SY 2014-2015
Culture
Students will acquire increased knowledge of daily life, customs, and current events
and become aware of verbal and non-verbal cultural differences. They will learn basic
geographic features of China and become cognizant of the contributions of the Chinese
to other world cultures.
CREDIT INFO:
This course provides one credit toward fulfilling the foreign language requirements for an
Advanced Studies Diploma (three years of one language or two years of two languages).