Textbook: Chinese Made Easy 3 (Students will learn approximately 300 Chinese characters)
Trimester 1:
Trimester 2:
Trimester 3:
Leisure Activities (3 lessons)
Vocabulary:
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Leisure activities
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Sports activities
School continued (2 lessons)
Chinese and Western Foods (2
lessons)
Vocabulary:

Eating out: Currencies
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Chinese breakfast items

Basic food items
Structures:
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The use of the verb ‘spend’
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Conditional sentences
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Using ‘or’ in questions and
statements
Culture:
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Chinese breakfast
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Chinese foods
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Chinese currency
Structures:
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Expressing two simultaneous
actions
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Time expressions ‘always’,
‘for a little while’
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Expressing ‘(together) with’
Sequencing events: ‘after finishing’
Cultural Readings:
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Chinese New Year
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Dragon Boat Festival
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Moon Festival
Daily Schedules (2 lessons)
Vocabulary:
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Grooming and hygiene
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Class schedules and subjects
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Describing subjects and tests
Structures:
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Time expressions ‘as soon
as’, ‘never’, and ‘up until’
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Questions with ‘why’ and
‘how long’
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Expressing past events
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Application of le
Cultural Readings:

Chinese Tea
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The Yangtze and Yellow
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Rivers
School (2 lessons)
Vocabulary:
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School buildings

School facilities

phone conversation
Structures:
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Expressing ‘left’, ‘right’,
‘front’, ‘back’, ‘besides’,
‘under’, ‘above’, ‘inside’,
‘outside’, ‘upstairs’,
‘downstairs’.
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Different ways to express a
same location.
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Expressing a short and quick
action.
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Expressing an attempt or
trial.
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Application of ba
Cultural Readings:

Confucius

Four great inventions
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The Forbidden City
The Body (4 lesson)
Vocabulary:

Body Parts
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Describing how someone
looks
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Expressing well-being and
sickness
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Staying in the hospital
Structures:
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Use of ‘although...(but)’

Expressing estimates
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Emphasizing adjectives
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Comparative sentences with
complement
Cultural Readings:

The origin of Four-WordPhrases
Chinese and Western Foods (2 lessons)
Vocabulary:

Eating out: Currencies

Chinese breakfast items

Basic food items
Structures:

The use of the verb ‘spend’

Conditional sentences

Using ‘or’ in questions and
statements
Culture:

Chinese breakfast

Chinese foods

Chinese currency
Chinese and Western Foods (2
lessons)
Vocabulary:

Chinese foods

Western foods

Ordering food
Structures:

Question words used as
indefinites
Cultural Readings:

The origin of more FourWord-Phrases
Diet and Health (3 lessons)
Vocabulary:

Vegetables
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Fruits
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Snack foods
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Food Pyramid
Structures:
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Expressing progression
Cultural Reading:
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The origin of more FourWord-Phrases