Certificate in Chinese Language Course

 

Objectives

For our dedicated teachers who are very experienced in teaching Mandarin classes to help improve students’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, so that they will be able to meet the language requirement to further their studies in various professional certifications courses in future.


Term

The course duration is 12 months. The Chinese Language course consists of 7 levels:

  • Beginner
  • Elementary I
  • Elementary II
  • Intermediate I
  • Intermediate II
  • Advanced I
  • Advanced II

There are four Modules per year:

Module 1: November to December

Module 2: January to March

Module 3: March to June

Module 4: June to October

Students can choose to enroll in the whole course from Module 1 to Module 4. At the end of each module, students must take the module examination and the college will issue the module examination results to the students. 

 

 

Lesson Time

Monday to Friday,1 p.m. to 6 p.m., full-time course.


Course Certification

Certificate will be awarded upon passing the examination.


Our Teachers

We have highly qualified teachers who are dedicated and responsible. Our teachers who are experienced in their teaching subject are also very amicable and caring.

Course Synopses

At the end of this course the students should have acquired a clear, natural pronunciation and intonation. The students should be able to understand the information content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material on topics of personal interest delivered in clear standard speech. The students should be able to write smoothly and be detailed in taking information from a variety of different sources in Chinese.

Course Outline

  1. Pronounciation, Hello / Thank You
  2. Numerals
  3. Names
  4. Country, nationality, city, native place
  5. Year, month, date, day
  6. Birthdays, Age
  7. Time, daily schedule
  8. Public places
  9. Daily necessities, fruits, things and prices
  10. Food and beverage
  11. Address, telephone
  12. Result, possibility
  13. Doing something, Duration of time
  14. Transportation
  15. Asking for direction
  16. Hanyu Pinyin


Course Material

Course Materials and Textbooks are compulsory and at a minimal fee. Material fees are subjected to change depending on the level.

A sample of daily programme outline

DURATION

LESSON

60 minutes

Correction/Review of previous class assignment
Question-and-Answer session

105 minutes

New topics to be covered

15 minutes

Break

60 minutes

Continuation of lecturing the new topic

60 minutes

In-class assignment

Total: 300 minutes

 


Requirement

Students must be above 6 to sign up for the course.

POINTS TO NOTE

Students will sit for our placement test before their first lesson to access their Mandarin standard, so as to assign the students to a class of a suitable course level for them to start with.

Foreign students who will be studying for a period of more than 3 months will need to apply for STUDENT PASS. (For further details, please click here.)

CPE Registration : 201001911N     Validity: 28 July 2011 to 27 July 2012
Updated on 10 November 2011