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Chinese 3 (Level 6)

Overview

  • Credit value: 30 credits at Level 6
  • Convenor: Dr Michael Tsang
  • Assessment: three in-class tests (15% each), a three-hour examination including oral interview (35%), self-reflexive essay in Chinese (120 characters) (15%) and class participation (5%)

Module description

Chinese 3 follows from Chinese 2 and is designed for students with beginner proficiency in Mandarin Chinese seeking to work towards post-beginner level. Studying Chinese 3 will normally lead to a solid foundation in passing the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK*) Level 3.

This module provides you with consolidation and development in your communicative skills, preparing you for a wide range of informal/everyday and some formal/professional situations and contexts, including talking about the weather, your career, future plans, personalities, Sinophone cultures; and expressing acceptance/refusal, determination, exclamation and so on. You will learn a wide array of vocabulary and complex grammatical structures that enable you to improve your communicative abilities.

Classes are interactive and taught by native speakers.

* The HSK is a six-level Mandarin Chinese language test for non-native speakers of Mandarin Chinese, administered by the Chinese government. It is a widely recognised and default proficiency test for the Mandarin Chinese language.

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

  • express yourself in post-beginner Mandarin Chinese to achieve a variety of tasks, such as talking about the weather, your career, future plans, personalities, Sinophone cultures; and expressing acceptance/refusal, determination, exclamation and so on
  • comprehend various communicative exchanges in a range of social and work situations
  • understand the gist of some less complex media texts, for example, public announcements and adjusted radio extracts or television clips
  • understand the main points of a range of texts which you may encounter in everyday life and some work situations
  • extract necessary information from a wide range of less complicated and/or adjusted texts in various fields
  • formulate messages and express views connected with everyday life and some work situations, including short essays, with an awareness of appropriate compositional coherence and/or structure.