Year 13 Chinese
Subject Description
Teacher in Charge: Mr D. Ting.
Year 13 Chinese builds on 7 years of language learning and the course offers plenty of opportunities for students to master communication in a variety of topics relevant to their age. At this stage, students are the subject experts and, in most cases, discover their unique style of language production and develop a secondary personality based on the way they communicate in Mandarin Chinese. While there are a range of preset topics such as immigration, education, environment and popular culture, students also get to explore specialised topics which are of interest in the internally assessed standards. By the end of the year, students are able to give opinions and challenge others’ opinions in Mandarin Chinese. At this level of language learning, we continue to give students more ownership in programme planning. If there is a particular interest or passion within the class, we endeavour to focus on this as a learning possibility in addition to proposed topics. In retrospect, literature studies, film studies and aspects of Chinese history have been of particular interest.
The skills of reading, speaking (both prepared and conversational), listening and writing are all covered and assessed throughout the year so that students are able to both understand and produce Chinese language.
Year 13 Chinese is a year long course, 8 periods per cycle.
Recommended Prior Learning
Year 13 Chinese or native / heritage speaker advantage
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
Subscription to Education Perfect - Chinese is highly recommended.
We endeavour to take Year 13 students to a film and offer outings and meet-ups with other schools throughout the year. These are organised as the year progresses.
Assessment Information
Weekly vocabulary testsCredit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
External
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.
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