Chinese Pre-advanced

This is a 20-hour course designed for learners who have learned around 3000 words and are able to use language to discuss fairly wide range of topics, to extract detailed information and to make notes while someone is talking.

This course aims at developing students’ abilities to understand formal and informal writing, character with multiple pronunciations, adjective reduplications, discourse connectives and to get the main ideas of a passage via skimming and scanning. Debate, group discussion and presentation are frequently used in class to give students opportunities to use the language more effectively. Some more recent developments in population and housing will be provided as extra learning materials.

By the end of the course, students should be able to discuss the topics of population, housing and education with a good degree of fluency, produce a well argued piece of work, use some more complicated grammar points and speech patterns such as metaphor, large numbers etc. and do fast reading by the reading skills learned in this term.