IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Our existing Mandarin program is being replaced with a new Chinese Language Program. New students should review the Chinese Language Program overview for details of our new Integrated Chinese courses. For existing students only selected Mandarin classes at selected levels are scheduled and will be run subject to sufficient enrolments.
This course is the final class in the first year program and is suitable for those who have completed all levels of Mandarin up to 103 or 70 hours of recent face to face tuition. Mandarin 104 will consolidate material covered in the first year program to develop your reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. New material will introduce working with dates, discussing the past and future, exchanging travel stories and talking about your hobbies.
Course Content
- Exchange of learning experiences
- Asking for and telling dates – weekdays, months, years – talking about one’s weekly routine
- Birthdays – finding out someone’s birthday – going to a birthday party – inviting and accepting invitations
- Past/Future – indicating what you did in the past and what you will do in near future
- Exchanging travelling experience overseas – discussing the opportunities of going to China
- Understanding weather forecasts from radio/TV broadcast – indicating different types of weather in different areas i.e. in China and in Australia
- Describing the four seasons in Beijing – Comparing and contrasting the climate in Beijing and Sydney
- Hobbies – talking about what people do – finding out what one likes and dislikes
- Making and taking telephone calls – receiving and leaving messages – turn-takings in telephone conversations – making appointments – indicating intentions
Prescribed Text
- _ Hanyu ABC Introductory Chinese for Adult Learners in Australia_ (textbook and CDs), Chen Xiao
- Hanyu ABC Reader, Chen Xiao
This course is based on Units 8-10 of both the above texts. The texts are used for class activities and form the basis for consolidation and practice between meetings. The text should be purchased only after confirmation is received from the Centre that the course is going ahead. This usually occurs two weeks before the class begins.
The following supplier stocks the prescribed textbooks for Mandarin levels 101 to 104:
UNIVERSITY COPY CENTRE
Shop 2, Lower Ground Level
Sydney University Sports & Aquatic Centre
Maze Crescent Darlington NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: (02) 9351 4582
Fax: (02) 9351 5566
Email: copy.centre@sydney.edu.au
Hours: 8.30am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday
It is recommended that you first contact the supplier to ensure there are copies available and to make an order if there are not.
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