Year 13 Chinese (Level 3)
Subject Description
Head of Faculty: Miss C. Clech.
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.
Prerequisites
Preferences will be given to students who have gained credits in Level 2 Chinese.
Discretionary entry will be offered by the Head of Faculty.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
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NZQA Info
Chinese 3.1 - Demonstrate understanding of a variety of extended spoken Chinese texts
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Chinese 3.2 - Give a clear spoken presentation in Chinese that communicates a critical response to stimulus material
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Chinese 3.3 - Interact clearly using spoken Chinese to explore and justify varied ideas and perspectives in different situations
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Chinese 3.4 - Demonstrate understanding of a variety of extended written and/or visual Chinese texts
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Chinese 3.5 - Write a variety of text types in clear Chinese to explore and justify varied ideas and perspectives
Approved subject for University Entrance
Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 24
Only students engaged in learning and achievement derived from Te Marautanga o Aotearoa are eligible to be awarded these subjects as part of the requirement for 14 credits in each of three subjects.
Possible Careers
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