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Upper-Intermediate Chinese Courses Introduction
Monday, 29 October 2012 09:46
Upper-Intermediate Chinese Courses Introduction
Suited to those who acquire a deep understanding of Chinese grammar and sentence structures with a large vocabulary. This level, with a higher degree of difficulty, enbles learners to communicate more skillfully on more complicated topics.
Level content
Lesson 1 Riding a Bicycle (骑自行车)
In this lesson, you will learn that two people are talking about riding bycicles on their way. After learning this lesson, you should master the differences of “了”as the dynamic auxiliary word and the tone auxiliary word, and the associate phrase “既…又…”as well.
Lesson 2 Seeing the Doctor (去医院看病)
In this lesson, you will learn that Anna is not comfortable, and in the hospital how the doctor asks her about the illness and gives her prescription. After learning this lesson, you should master the sentence structure of“的”, the pivotal sentence and the usage of“不”.
Lesson 3 Doing Exercises (锻炼身体)
In this lesson, you will learn that two people are talking about the physical exercises in the gymnasium while taking exercise. After learning this lesson, you should master the question pronoun “怎么”、 the quantifier“趟”and the usage of“……什么的”.
Lesson 4 Watching TV (看电视)
In this lesson, you will learn that two people are talking about watching TV after they have finished their housework. After learning this lesson, you should master the usage of “好象” and the question pronoun “什么”.
Lesson 5 A Holiday Plan (假期计划)
In this lesson, you will learn that two people are talking about the places which they will travel in their holidays. After learning this lesson, you should master the usage of adverbs“到底”、“顺便”and the conjunction phrase“又…又…”.
Lesson 6 Talking About Beijing Opera (谈京剧)
In this lesson, you will learn that two people are talking about the Beijing opera on the way back to the school. After learning this lesson, you should master the usage of the indefinite quantifier “一些、一点儿”and the particle auxiliary word “了”.
Lesson 7 At the Clothing Store (在服装店)
In this lesson, you will learn that in a costume store, the salesman introduces the cheong-sam to Anna and Anna takes the traditional dress. After learning this lesson, you should master the usage of “把”sentence, “(一)点儿”and “像……一样”.
Lesson 8 Chance Encounter (巧遇)
In this lesson, you will learn that Anna and Lucy meet by accident and talk about recent situation of each other. After learning this lesson,you should master the usage of“正在……呢”、“把”and “多”.
Lesson 9 Telephone Call (电话联系)
In this lesson, you will learn that Anna makes a phone call to her old friend Lucy,and Lucy wants Anna to help her to accompany a delegation. After learning this lesson, you should master the usage of “如果…就…”,“请”, and the possible complement as well.
Lesson 10 A Chitchat (闲谈)
In this lesson, you will learn that Anna accompanies the delegation to the Reception Office of China Bank to meet the director. After learning this lesson, you should know how to ask for time and date in Chinese, and also master the usage of “以为…,其实…”.
Lesson 11 Renting an Apartment (租房)
In this lesson, you will learn that two people are visiting to an agency to rent a double-room house. After learning this lesson, you should master the usage of prerequisite sentences.
Lesson 12 An Interview (面试)
In this lesson, you will learn that the human resources manager is taking an interview to a newly-graduated university student. After learning this lesson, you should master the usage of “没什么”,“在……上” and the enumeration word of “什么A，B，C…”.
Lesson 13 Talking about Adult Education (谈成人教育)
In this lesson, you will learn that two people are talking about their spare time. After learning this lesson, you should master the meaning of “都”, and the usage of“怎么” and “越…越…”.
Lesson 14 Decorating an Apartment (布置房间)
In this lesson, you will learn that after one family move to a new house, the husband and wife are discussing how to make arrangements for their house. After learning this lesson, you should master the meaning of “既…又…” and “行” in this lesson.
Lesson 15 Beijing Roasted Duck (北京烤鸭)
In this lesson, you will learn that two people are talking about the Beijing Roast Duck. After learning this lesson, you should master the usage of the sentence with “比” and the tone of “啊，呀，呢，吧” in the question sentences.
Lesson 16 Staying in a Hotel (住旅店)
In this lesson, you will learn that how a businessman checks in a hotel when travelling to another city on business. After learning this lesson, you should master the usage of non-subject sentence and the conjunction phrase“ 因为…所以…”.
Lesson 17 At a Small Shop (在小卖部)
In this lesson, you will learn that one people goes to a buffet to buy something, and asks the price to the salesman. After learning this lesson, you should master the usage of the conjunction phrase “虽然…但是…”，“连…都/也…” and the verb “来…”.
Lesson 18 At the Handicraft Store (在工艺品商店)
In this lesson, you will learn that Anna plans to return her home country, and she asks for help to a friend of her to buy some gifts for her family and friends at home. After learning this lesson, you should master the usage of “不如”，“简直” and the overlapping verbs.
Lesson 19 Visting a Family (访问家庭)
In this lesson, you will learn that the school organizes the students to visit a factory, two students ask some questions to a worker. After learning this lesson, you should master the usage of “除了…(以外)，…”and “要是…就…”.
Lesson 20 Talking about Job (讨论工作)
In this lesson, you will learn that Tom and Mary are talking about where to work after graduation. After learning this lesson, you should master the usage of “一边…一边…”and “非…不可”.
Intermediate Chinese Course introduction
Monday, 29 October 2012 09:37
Intermediate Chinese Course introduction
Suited to those who grasp basic Chinese structures and accumulate a certain number of vocabulary, this level enables them to use more complicated structures to communicate in certain circumstances.
Level content
Lesson 1 Making a phone call (打电话)
This text is about telephone conversations. The students are expected to use the common words over telephone calls skillfully through the dialogues. Besides, you’ll learn how to read the telephone numbers and a common sentence structure “告诉﹢双宾语”.
Lesson 2 Going to the library (去图书馆)
On their way to the library, two students are talking about how to borrow books from the library, and how the reading-room in the library looks like. Through the conversation, you are expected to learn how to use the interrogative pronoun “怎么” (how) and the modal verb “can” “可以”.
Lesson 3 A profile of Beijing (介绍北京)
The text talks about the well-known architectures in Beijing. You are expected to learn how to use the words and phrases about directions through the conversations. Besides, you will learn how to use the resultative complement and its interrogative sentence structure.
Lesson 4 Taking the bus (乘公共汽车)
This text is a conversation about asking the way and how to take a bus. You are expected to learn how to join in such a topic skillfully through the dialogues. Besides, you will learn some preposition structures and a sentence structure 有时候……，有时候…(sometime…sometimes)
Lesson 5 A birthday party (生日晚会)
This text is a conversation about how to have a birthday party. You are expected to learn the right pattern of a sentence with a time noun as the subject, and the right way to read numbers about year, month and day.
Lesson 6 Attending a lecture (听讲座)
This text is a conversation about the theme of a lecture in the national library they will attend. You are expected to learn how to use the sentence structure with a time noun as an adverbial and how to express the numbers in the right way.
Lesson 7 Talking about age (谈年龄)
This text is a conversation asking about the age. You are expected to learn the right way of asking the age and the relevant expressions.
Lesson 8 A family banquet (家庭宴会)
This text is a conversation in a family banquet, which is a treat to an old friend who haven’t met for years. You are expected to learn how to form an approximate number with two number, how to ask reasons or how with “怎么”and the auxiliary word “了”.
Lesson 9 Going to the cinema (看电影)
This text is a conversation about seeing a moive. Through the dialogue, you are expected to learn how to use the indication pronoun “这么” and the auxiliary word “着”.
Lesson 10 Fruit-picking festival (采摘节)
This text is a conversation about the experience of attending the fruit-picking festival. Through the dialogue, you are expected to learn how to use the auxiliary word “了” (to indicate a past tense) and the preposition “为了” (for or in order to).
Lesson 11 Visiting the Great Wall (参观长城)
This text is a conversation about visiting Great Wall. Through the dialogue, youu are expected to learn the history about Great Wall and the sentence structures of asking how many times.
Lesson 12 Talking about a job (谈工作)
This text is a conversation about the work in publishing house. You will learn how to classify the words for time and the function of complement of time.
Lesson 13 Taking the train (坐火车)
This text is a conversation about taking the train. Through the dialogue, you are expected to learn about going on business trips. You will also learn the auxiliary word “过”and the measure word “趟”.
Lesson 14 Talking the weather (谈天气)
This text is a conversation about the weather and the relating sports activities in each season. Through the dialogue, you will learn about the weather in Beijing and the characteristics of four seasons. Besides, you will learn the difference of the word 爱 (love) as a verb and an adverb, and the sentence structure 一…就…(once…you will…).
Lesson 15 Going to the bank (去银行)
This text is a conversation about how to withdraw money in the bank. Through the dialogue, you will learn the alternative interrogative sentences with 还是(or) and the directional complement with来(come) and去(go to).
Lesson 16 At the post office (在邮局)
This text is a conversation about getting a parcel and buying stamps at the post office. You will learn the grammatical function of在as a preposition and the meaning of …什么的through the dialogues.
Lesson 17 Subjects (课程)
This text is a conversation about school subjects. You will learn about serveral nouns about subjects, and also you will get to know the meaning of (nearly) and the resumptive usage of the interrogative pronouns.
Lesson 18 Travelling in Shangdong Province (在山东旅游)
This text is a conversation about the sightseeing feelings to Shangdong and something about Confucius. Through the dialogues, you’ll learn about some famous scenic spots in China. Besides, you’ll learn the sentence structure 有点儿with an adjective, and the usage of 上、下、这.
Lesson 19 China (中国)
This text is a brief introduction to China, talking about its size, population and the rivers. Through the dialogue, you will also learn the structure of 越……越… (the more …the more…) and the grammatical function of the predicate sentence.
Lesson 20 Zealous Help (热心帮助)
This text is about how to look for a book through a catalog at the library. And in the dialogue, two girls talk about their interests in Chinese culture, especially in Chinese poems, which is very impressive. You’ll also learn how to use the expressions 差不多(nearly) and 只要(if).
Elementary Chinese Course introduction
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Elementary Chinese Course introduction
Suited to those who have grasped Chinese pinyin, this level is intended to teach basic grammar structure and common daily expressions.
Level content
Lesson 1 Hello! (打招呼)
This text has two main purposes. The first one is to teach the interrogative sentence structure “你身体好吗?” through the repeating dialog exercises; The second is intonation.
Lesson 2 What is the weather like today? (今天天气怎么样?)
This text mainly teaches the interrogative sentence structure “今天天气怎么样”, which is used to ask the status of something and the answer usually contains some adjective, such as “累 (tired)”“冷(cold)”“高兴(happy)”“努力(endeavor)”“认真(serious)”,etc. Besides, pay more attention to the neutral tone, such as “吗”“的”“了”.
Lesson 3 What is that? (那是什么?)
This text ss mainly about the interrogative sentence structure “这是什么/那是什么”, which is answered with common nouns. The students are expected to freely use this sentence structure after completion of the text. At the same time, students must pay more attention to the right pronunciation of these initials: “b and p”、“d and t”、“g and k”.
Lesson 4 How many younger sisters do you have? (你有几个妹妹?)
This text is to teach the interrogative sentence structure “你有几个中国朋友”to question for the number of some kind of people. We usually use “numeral plus measure word” to answer it. You are expected to master this grammar after completion of the text. Besides, you will learn how to express the numbers within one hundred in Chinese.
Lesson 5 What time is it now? (几点钟了?)
This text is to teach the interrogative sentence structure about “time”, such as “现 在 几 点, and is answered with time adverbs. Besides, you must pay attention to the right spelling of “j q x﹢ü” and “j q x﹢üe üɑn ün”.
Lesson 6 Asking price (问价钱)
This lesson is to teach the interrogative sentence structure about “asking the price”, for example, “这件衬衣多少钱 ( How much does this sweater cost?)”, and the right use of “a numeral plus a measure word (块/元、毛/角、分)” in the reply. Besides, you should pay attention to the right pronunciation of “z c s+i” in this lesson.
Lesson 7 What day is it today? (今天星期几?)
This lesson is to teach the interrogative sentence structure about “asking the date” and the right way to reply, for example, “今天星期几(What day is it today?)”. Besides, you should pay attention to the right pronunciation of “zh ch sh r+i” in this lesson.
Lesson 8 What is your nationality? (您是哪国人?)
This lesson to teach the interrogative sentence structure about “asking someone’s identity”, for example, “您叫什么名字 (What’s your name?)”. The students are expected to know how to introduce themselves . Besides, you should pay attention to the right spelling and pronunciation of the retroflex ending -r.
Lesson 9 Who is he? (他是谁?)
This lesson to teach the interrogative sentence structure about “asking the third person’s status ”, for example, “她是谁(Who is she?)”. Besides, you should pay attention to the change tone of words or phrases with three successive syllables.
Lesson 10 Can you help me? (你能帮我一下吗?)
This lesson is to teach the interrogative sentence structure using the auxiliary verbs “能、会(can )”, for example, “你会说汉语吗(Can you swim?)”, and the right way to reply with an affirmative or negative tongue. Besides, you should pay attention to the liaison of words and phrases with polysyllable.
Lesson 11 Greetings (问候)
Wang Qiang (王强) and Lin Dan (林丹) are college classmates. They happen to meet at the street one day, and ask each other about the recent conditions. This lesson aims to review all sentence structures we have learned in the last ten lessons. You may find that most well-known sentence structures are smartly mixed in the conversation.
Lesson 12 Talking about the campus (谈论校园)
Mary is from United States and she is learning Chinese at a school in Beijing. Liu Wei is from China and he is studying English at another school in Beijing. They are talking about their schools. In this lesson we should learn the interrogative sentence structure ending with “吗”, and also the sentence structure about one’s possessions.
Lesson 13 Introduction (介绍)
Liu Wei is visiting Li Xiaoman’s (李晓曼)home. In their conversation, there are many sentences containing the interrogative sentence structure like “你爸爸妈妈呢?”, and sentences with a predicate of “是” in “可不”、“可不是”or“可不是吗” for the rhetorical questions.
Lesson 14 Talking about the academic studies (谈学习)
Lin Haitao (林海涛) and Mary are talking about their school studies. In this lesson, we should learn the predicate sentence: “subject+(adverbial modifier)verb(complement)”, and the interrogative sentences with different question nouns “谁、哪、哪儿、什么、多少 or几”.
Lesson 15 At the bus stop (车站相遇)
Liu Wei (刘伟) and Mary meet each other at a bus stop, and they are chatting while waiting for the bus. In this lesson, we should learn the sentence structure with successive verbs, overlapped verbs, and the negative tone using the phrase “一点儿也不”.
Lesson 16 School introduction (介绍学校)
Tom and Mary are at Beijing University of Languages and Cultural Studies. They are talking about the school facilities. In this lesson, we should learn the words about directions and possessions.
Lesson 17 Talking about language learning (谈语言)
Tom and Mary are talking about language learning. In this lesson, we should learn the modal verbs “能” and “会” and their negative forms.
Lesson 18 Shopping at the Farmers’ Market (在农贸市场买菜)
Liu Wei (刘伟) and Mary are discussing about what to buy in the bazaar. In this lesson, we should learn the use of “买(buy)” and “卖(sell)” , and sentences with predicate of nouns, and the measure words too.
Lesson 19 Talking about hobbies (谈爱好)
Li Xiaoman (李晓曼) and Liu Wei (刘伟) are talking about their hobbies. In this lesson, we should learn the right use of the positive and negative interrogative sentences, and some words to describe interests.
Lesson 20 Dining out in a restaurant (餐馆就餐)
In a restaurant, two friends are ordering the food, they ask the waitress about the speciality of the restaurant. Besides the right way of ordering food, you’ll learn about a phrase 有没有 (have or haven’t) and a verb 来 (come).
Beginner Chinese Course introduction
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Beginner Level IntroductionSpecially designed for those who have no foundation in Chinese language, this level concentrates on learning Chinese phonetics, tones and pronunciation rules. One will study Chinese from the very beginning.
Level content:
Lesson 1 Introduction (概要)
Lesson 2 Simple finals ɑ o e i u ü (单韵母ɑ)
Lesson 3 The initials b p m f (声母b)
Lesson 4 The initials d t n l g k h (声母)
Lesson 5 The initials z c s y w (声母z)
Lesson 6 The initials zh ch sh r and j q x (声母zh)
Lesson 7 Compound finals ɑi ei ɑo ou (复韵母ɑi)
Lesson 8 Compound finals ie üe iu ui er (复韵母)
Lesson 9 Nasal finals ɑn en in un ün (鼻韵母ɑn)
Lesson 10 Nasal finals ɑng eng ing ong (鼻韵母ɑng)
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