SOPHIA UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Liberal Arts
Course Information
Semester Offered: Spring & Fall 2009
Course Number: CHN 101
Course Title: Basic Chinese 1
Professor’s name Yuriko TAKAHASHI
Office Hour : Monday & Thursday 12:30~13:30
Office Tel. No. : 03-3238-4056
Building 10 : Room # 625
1. Course Description
Basic course for beginners including speaking, reading, and writing practices
of Modern Standard Chinese language stressing pronunciation and spelling
system of Chinese sounds.
2. Prerequisites
Only those who never studied Chinese language can take this course.
3. Required Readings
Textbook:
Elementary Chinese Readers , book 1. Sinolingua, Beijing
4. Recommended Readings
Tapes going with the textbook are available at instructor’s office.
Dictionaries are not necessary in class.
5. Course Requirements
Quizzes covering some lessons , Midterm examination, Final examination
are given for checking if the students get the Chinese sounds correctly
through the Romanized spelling system.
Attendance at all the classes is required since participation in drills given in
classes Is an important part of work.
6.
Grading
Final grade is given when all requirements above are accomplished.
Approximate criteria for grading are ：
Attendance and class participation –- 20%
Midterm examination –- 20%
Quiz–- 20%
Final examination –- 40%
The instructor has the right to change them or add some adjustment according
to actual situation.
Course Outline/Syllabus
Introduction : Tones and Sounds
Lesson 1 ---- Lesson 8
 Oral practice of pronunciation
 Reading practice of spelled sounds
 Writing practice of spelling sounds and Chinese simplified
characters
 Practices though short dialogues
Lesson 9 --- Lesson 13
◆Grammar study through text dialogue and paragraph + all above
Lesson 9
1.Word order in Chinese
2.The 是 – sentence (1)
3.The interrogative sentence ending with 吗
Lesson 10 1.Attributive
2.Structural particle 的
3.Interrogative sentences in which an interrogative pronoun is used.
Lesson 11 1. The 有- sentence
2. A numeral-measure word as attributive
3. Interrogative pronoun 几
Lesson 12 1.Sentences with an adjective as predicate
2.Negation of the sentence with an adjective as its predicate
3.Affirmative-negative question
4,A demonstrative pronoun as an attributive
Lesson 13 1.Sentences with a verbal predicate
2.Negation of the sentence with a verbal predicate
146 words and 165 Chinese Characters are learned and 15 sentences patterns and
15 grammar points are mastered.
Goal : Students can speak and write about themselves in Chinese.
* Chinese class discipline
No chewing gum is permitted because it disturbs correct pronunciation.
Mobile phone is not allowed since it disturbs your classmates and
your own concentration. All students are expected to have a good attitude for
learning and follow the school regulation. Those who disturb instructor or
classmates in their work are dismissed from the class.