Entry Proficiency Level: Intermediate High
End of Course Targeting Proficiency Level: Pre-Advanced
In Advanced 1 course, students will explore Chinese culture and history and make deeper connections to Chinese cities and Chinese people’s life. Texts, teaching materials, and activities introduced in this course are intended to develop students’ advanced communication skills through various language activities and authentic materials. Units include: Changes in China, Life & Environment, Families in different Societies, and the Wellness and Health. Chinese culture is an important aspect of this course which is embedded in each topic including practice, products, values and beliefs.
At the conclusion of Advanced 1 Chinese, students should be able to:
- Acquire familiarity with language that reflects a more formal, written style.
- Exchange information in conversations and discussions on a variety of familiar and concrete topics.
- Narrate, describe, and comment on a variety of concrete, and occasionally abstract topics relating to real-life situations using connected sentences to form a cohesive paragraph.
- Interprets a variety of authentic or modified authentic sources and follows the messages in various time frames.
- Describe the product, practice, and perspectives of Chinese culture and make a comparison to that of their own culture.