Level 3 Classes: This course is suitable for people who have already had 40-50 hours of teaching and are able to read and write simple sentences in Chinese characters, who would like to use the language for holiday and/or work-related purposes. By the end of the course, you will be able to formulate simple sentences in a conversational setting, talk about the past and discuss plans, and become familiar with basic Chinese characters.
Term duration 10 x weekly 2-hour classes, Thursday evenings, 6:15pm to 8:15pm
Key Language
Chinese characters
Asking and telling time
Asking someone’s age and birthplace
Talking about someone’s health
Seeing a doctor
Asking for suggestions
Asking where someone lives
Renting a property
Making a phone call
Expressing demand, need, desire, willingness, ability, possibility, permission and prohibition using appropriate optative verbs
Expressing offering and receiving a favour
Alternative questions
Talking about something that has happened
Asking for reasons
Making a compliant or an apology
Making an invitation
Passing on someone’s regard
Expressing holiday greetings
Adjective modifier for nouns
Sentences with a subject-predicate structure as predicate
Sentences with predicate composed of two verbal phrases
