The Syllabus - Chinese program
The tasks in this module include
Location
- (1) Asking and identifying the facilities / shops in the local community;
- (2) Asking and giving their locations
Direction
- (3) Asking and giving directions to a designated location in the local community.
Shopping
- (4) Asking and gibing information about the goods / services of these facilities / shops
The local community
- (5) Describing the local community, focusing on the shops.
As this module* is catering to a class or combined classes of mixed backgrounds students in an age-related horizontal year level, the syllabus is differentiated into three Categories of tasks so as to meet the learning needs of students at different levels of proficiency in the target language. Those in Category B tackle less complex tasks such as (i) (ii) (iii); those in Category A tackle more complex tasks such as (iv), while those in Category A+ tackle extension activities such (v).
The aim of differentiation is to enable students to tackle tasks according to their current level of proficiency and at the same time extend beyond by working with others to achieve group tasks that require collaboration. The more advanced students will have the opportunity to take up leadership and teaching roles in the team, helping others while developing a new repertoire of linguistic, metalinguistic metacognitive and social skills.
* The module aims to help students reach language proficiency level CSFII between 5 and 6 (Pathway 1) between 4A and 6A (Pathway 2).
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