Course Overview:
Continue your journey in the exploration of the Chinese language and the richness of its diverse cultures. In the Chinese 3 Honors course, you will sharpen the increased listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills you acquired in Chinese 1 and 2. Communication remains the main focus through speaking, listening, writing, and reading. You will dive a little deeper into Chinese culture and apply what you learn through written practice, listening, and speaking exercises.
Prerequisites:
Required Materials:
Student-Supplied Resources:
Students need to supply the following materials to complete the coursework.
Required:
- Microphone Sound card
- Speakers or headphones
- Microphone
- Device of choice to record video with audio
Optional:
- Chinese language keyboard extension or add on
School-Supplied Resources:
- Simply Speak Recording Tool
*A special note about the Simply Speak Recording Tool:
In order for the Simply Speak Recording to function, the course should be opened on a non-mobile device using Google Chrome. If you do not have the ability to access the course following these requirements, you may use the alternative options provided in the Speech Tools Tab on the Menu Bar.
Syllabus:
Semester 1:
Segment One:
- Identify and use feelings, greetings, and phone, email, and text expressions when communicating with a friend making, rescheduling, and canceling appointments, asking for a favor, accepting, or rejecting doing a favor, inviting and accepting, or rejecting an invitation vocabulary.
- Identify Chinese slang use in text or internet communications.
- Identify phone, appointments, asking for favors, and RSVP etiquettes.
- Identify idiomatic expressions on feelings.
- Compare and contrast dating traditions from Chinese culture and in the United States.
- Identify and use preparing for an event, chores, sequence of events, shopping, clothes, food, decorations, destination events, and traveling vocabulary.
- Compare and contrast sitting arrangements and gifting traditions from Chinese culture and in the United States.
- Identify appetizers around the world.
- Identify and use transportation, sports, community events, and volunteering vocabulary.
- Compare common modes of transportation from Chinese culture and in the United States.
- Identify traditional sports and athletes from China.
- Compare different China towns around the world.
- Identify and use question words.
Module 01: Social Life
- 01.00 Social Life Pretest
- 01.01 Phone a Friend
- 01.02 Check Your Calendar
- 01.03 Social Life Voice Activity
- 01.04 Pretty Please!
- 01.05 Social Life Workshop
- 01.07 Ready to RSVP
- 01.08 Social Life Presentational Speaking
Module 02: Life Events
- 02.00 Life Events Pretest
- 02.01 Plan and Prepare
- 02.02 Shopping List
- 02.03 Life Events Voice Activity
- 02.04 Let's Celebrate!
- 02.05 Life Events Workshop
- 02.07 Dream Destinations
- 02.08 Life Events Presentational Speaking
Module 03: Community Life
- 03.00 Community Life Pretest
- 03.01 Cruising Around Town
- 03.02 Time Out
- 03.03 Community Life Voice Activity
- 03.04 Community Events
- 03.05 Community Life Workshop
- 03.07 Helping Hands
- 03.08 Community Life Presentational Speaking
Semester 2:
Segment Two:
- Identify and use cultural life, music, dance, art, and literature vocabulary.
- Identify issues in music, dance, arts, and literature.
- Identify traditional instruments, meaning of music, traditional music, musicians, dancers, the history of dance, folk dance, artists, calligraphy, watercolor paint, architecture, writers, poems, and different forms of literature from Chinese culture.
- Identify and use famous life, food, exploration, science and inventions, and history vocabulary.
- Identify food, culinary contributions, culinary fusion, chefs, dynasty cuisine, traditional food, explorers, contributions from explorers, historical figures, historical contributions, scientists and inventors, and scientific contributions from Chinese culture.
- Identify areas of interest to build a resume, skills or characteristics needed to find a job, interview, application and resume, adjectives, and careers vocabulary.
- Identify parental role when choosing a major, stereotypes in education, and traditions when going to an interview from Chinese culture.
- Identify etiquette for a job interview.
- Identify and use question words.
Module 04: Cultural Life
- 04.00 Cultural Life Pretest
- 04.01 Making Music
- 04.02 Do You Dance?
- 04.03 Cultural Life Voice Activity
- 04.05 Cultural Life Workshop
- 04.07 Story Time
- 04.08 Cultural Life Presentational Speaking
Module 05: Famous Life
- 05.00 Famous Life Pretest
- 05.01 Food Fusion
- 05.02 New Horizons
- 05.03 Famous Life Voice Activity
- 05.04 Blast from the Past
- 05.05 Famous Life Workshop
- 05.07 Inventive Ideas
- 05.08 Famous Life Presentational Speaking
Module 06: Work Life
- 06.00 Work Life Pretest
- 06.01 What Inspires You?
- 06.02 Skill Sets
- 06.03 Work Life Voice Activity
- 06.04 Landing the Job
- 06.05 Work Life Workshop
- 06.07 My Dream Job
- 06.08 Work Life Presentational Speaking
