Year 13 Chinese

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.