Chinese Curriculum Overview

Year 9 Chinese

A one term course introducing Chinese to the students. Students learn about the Chinese culture and learn to communicate simply about themselves and their immediate environment.

We cover

• Greetings, farewells and other polite conventions
• Introductions of self and others
• School objects
• Chinese character writing
• Numbers up to 20
• Ages
• Nationalities and addresses
• Days and Dates
• Classroom instructions
• Telling time
• Talking about school subjects and activitie

Year 10 Chinese

A full year course designed to enable the student to communicate about himself, his interests and his immediate environment. This course is a preparation for NCEA level 1.

We cover

• Revision from year 9
• Hobbies and past times
• Habits and daily routines
• Food items
• Household activities
• Asking permission
• Buying things in shops - discussing quatities and quality
• Giving opinions about school
• Buying food at a cafe
• Talking about how people travel
• Discussing clothes
• Talking about likes and dislikes

Year 11 Chinese

A full year course enabling the student to communicate in greater detail about himself and others, and to communicate in familiar or realistic contexts: making bookings, going to the doctor, discussing holidays, going to restaurants etc. Students in year 11 will do NCEA level 1. IGCSE Chinese is a mid year exam and may be sat in June/July of the year in which a student is doing year 12. This will happen for the first time in 2008.

We cover

• Revision and extension of year 10 work
• Extended descriptions of yourself and your immediate environment
• Talking about a wide selection of leisure activities
• Talking about weather
• Celebrating birthday
• Travelling
• Visiting the doctor/pharmacist
• Making telephone calls
• Visiting friends
• Sports and hobbies
• Extended talk about school life
• Describing people
• Talking about countries of the world
• Talking about your own country and town.
• Different ways of expressing Tenses
• Working with adjectives and adverbs
• Using pronouns

Year 12 Chinese

A one year course designed to increase the native speaker students' ability to move with ease between the Chinese and English languages.

We cover:

• Talking about the location of New Zealand
• Interesting places of NZ
• Talking about cities of NZ
• Brief talk about NZ history and culture
• Location of China
• Tourist attractions in China
• Cities and population in China
• Some historical stories of China
• Give information about personal details
• Express and ask about opinions, attitudes and emotions
• Talk about school rules and regulations
• Compare schools in NZ and China
• Supermarkets, flee markets and fairs
• Chinese sports and NZ sports
• Different medical systems
• Talk about holidays in detail
• Celebration of Christmas and Chinese New Year

Year 13 Chinese

A one year bilingual course designed to help students pass NCEA level 3 assessments.

We cover:

• Talking about climate in NZ and China
• Sceneries of New Zealand
• NZ tourist products and fruit
• Some historical cities in China
• Different ways of communication
• Talking about being modest
• Several taboo topics of the Chinese
• Talking about attitude towards money
• About pursuing leisure
• Brief talk about Confucius
• Brief talk about religions in China
• Talking about different customs of inviting friends for dinner
• Table manners
• Different ethnic groups in China and NZ