Year 13 Chinese (Level 3)

This course provides students opportunities to relate themselves to the society and the bigger world. They will develop the ability to express and share opinions, interact with others, and communicate in a variety of spoken and written contexts. The topics will cover different lifestyles, stereotypes, cultural events and living in China. The students can participate in the National Chinese Speech Competition and the Essay Competition held by the Confucius Institute.  

Students learn to use language variably and effectively to express and justify their own ideas and opinions and support or challenge those of others. They learn to use and identify the linguistic and cultural forms that guide interpretation and enable them to respond critically to texts.  

• Communicate information, ideas, and opinions through increasingly complex and varied texts.  
• Explore the views of others, developing and shaping personal perspectives.  
• Engage in sustained interaction and produce extended text.  
• Analyse ways in which the target language is organized in different texts and for different purposes.  
• Explore how linguistic meaning is conveyed across languages.  
• Analyse ways in which the target culture(s) is(are) organised for different purposes and for different audiences. 
• Analyse how the use of the target language expresses cultural meanings.