On completion of this course, students will be able to:
1) Understand phrases and sentences on topics such as common greetings, oneself, family and friends, dates and time, directions and locations, and going shopping (when given adequate time and relevant cues);
2) Read simple texts, standardized messages, phrases and expressions on topics given above;
3) Achieve mastery of the Pinyin (Romanisation of Standard Chinese) system, and pronounce acquired vocabulary and short phrases with the correct tones;
4) Ask questions and make sentences involving learned material;
5) Write simple texts on the topics learned using characters;
6) Build up a vocabulary of 200 words;
7) Achieve HSK level 1 proficiency.

Week 1: Phonetics and greetings
Week 2: The interrogative pronoun什么/谁/哪；The “是”sentence; Interrogative sentence with “吗” ；The structural particle“的”；The interrogative particle “呢”.
Week 3: The interrogative pronoun 几/怎么; Numbers below 100; “了”indicating a change; The interrogative phrase “多+大”；The modal verb “会”；Sentences with an adjectival predicate.
Week 4: Expression of dates; Sentence with a nominal predicate; 去+place+ to do sth.; The modal verb“想”；The interrogative pronoun“多少”；The measure words“个”and“口”；Expression of money
Week 5: The Verb “在”；The interrogative pronoun “哪儿”；The preposition “在”；The interrogative particle “呢”
Week 6: The “有”sentence indicating existence; The conjunction “和”；The modal verb “能”；Imperative sentence with “请”.
Week 7: Expression of time; Time word used as an adverbial; The noun “前”.
Week 8: The interrogative pronoun“怎么样”；Sentence with a subject-predicate phrase as the predicate; The adverb “太”；The modal verb “会”.
Week 9: The interjection “喂”；“在……呢”used to indicate an action in progress; The modal particle “吧”.
Week 10: “了”indicating occurrence or completion; The noun “后”；The modal particle “啊”；The adverb “都”
Week 11: The structure “是…….的”used to emphasize time, place, or manner.
Week 12: Revision

No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Students who are native Mandarin speakers, or those whose Mandarin Chinese level is equal to or higher than HSK level 1, are not eligible to take this module as an elective.

The lecturer reserves the right to assess the language competence of all students. Students whose competence is incompatible with the level of their chosen elective module will be advised to transfer to a more appropriate language module.

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

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