Syllabus
The planned content of the term:
Note: Teaching pace will respect the students' learning pace, final exam content will follow the content of the material studied before the term ends.
Week 1
L6 – review and suggestions
Making comments and suggestions
Polite refusals
Sentences with a verbal predicate
Week 2
L7
Meeting someone for the first time
Talking about one's major
Attributives
Indicator of a short and quick action
Questions with 呢
Adverbs 也 and 都
Week 3
L8
Talking about family, occupation and university
还 for introducing additional remarks
Conjunction 和
Adverb 太
Numbers, questions with 几 and 多少
Sentences with 有
Week 4
L9
Making an appointment
Asking about someone's age and birthplace
Celebrating someone's birthday
Date and days of the week
A phrase 祝你 。。。 to extend one's good wishes
Expression 是吗?
Adverb 多
Week 5
L10
Likes and dislikes
Solving language problems
Shopping, asking the price of something, Chinese currency
Asking how one should do something, the phrase 怎么 + VP
Demonstrative pronouns 这 and 那 as attr.
Prepositional phrases, 给， 送
Week 6
L11
Asking about time, telling the time
Abilities
Permission or prohibition
Optative verbs
Neg. connotiation of 哪里
还 expressing continuation
Week 7
L12
Health expressing what one wants or needs
Sentences with a subject-predicate phrase as predicate
Alternative questions
Sentences with optative verbs – second instance: 要，想，愿意
Week 8
L13
Renting asking for suggestions
Phone calls
Invitations
Particle 了 – first instance
Pivotal sentences
Optative verbs - third instance： 能， 会
Week 9
L14
Complaints and apologies
Passing someone’s regards
Holiday greetings
Suggestions and invitation 4 Chinese sentence patterns
Common questions
Week 10
NPCR 2: L15
Saying hello confirmation of past events
Commenting actions
Changing money
Describing a visited place
The complement of state
Preposition 从
Adverb 就 – first instance
Particle 了 – second instance: completion and realization
Verb reduplication
Numerals from 100
Week 11
NPCR 2: L16
Making new friends
Leaving and returning
Filling out forms
Borrowing and returning books
Simple directional complement
Time-measure complement
The 把sentence
Adverb 就 – second instance
Pronoun 自己
上 /下 -referrence to the order of things
Week 12
NPCR 2: L17*
Describing and comparing things
Buying clothes
Verbs of movement with time measure complement
Expressing extent/degree
Combined usage of the first and second instance of particle 了
The 的 phrase – first instance
Using the preposition 比 for comparison
Complement of quantity
*Upon request a REVIEW LESSON is possible INSTEAD of a new lesson.
Week 13
FINAL EXAM
-written part
-oral part
Annotation
This continuation of the course Chinese I will acquaint students with both linguistic knowledge and communication skills in Mandarin Chinese and cultivate their interests in Chinese culture.