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Mandarin level 3

Revised November 2024

Prerequisite for entry

Successful completion of Mandarin syllabus level 2+ at UCL Centre for Languages & International Education or a high GCSE (or equivalent).

Term duration

10 x 2-hour classes.

Aims and objectives

The course aims to help students become more confident speakers of Mandarin using good basic knowledge of Chinese to develop all four skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) to an intermediate level. Students should be able to have a good command of the language in most common situations. Cultural awareness will be developed.

Functions

  • Understanding hotel check-in procedures
  • Giving simple descriptions about historical periods
  • Exchanges about orders at a restaurant
  • Exchanges about bargaining

Course content

Main topics/themes to be covered:

  • Hotel accommodation
  • Check-in and room facilities
  • Museums, history and cultural relics
  • Eating out, food and drink, Chinese dishes
  • Shopping for souvenirs, sending a package by post

Linguistic structures/ Phonetics

  • Tone sandhi 3rd+3rd tones
  • Difference between “ü” and “üe
  • Difference between “en” and “eng
  • The finals: “ian” and “üan

Grammar

  • adequacy with /不够
  • passive voice using
  • a continuing action or state with
  • …… constructions
  • sentences
  • The more...the more…………

Learning resources

Books

Discover China: Student's Book Two, edited by Chen Xin, Jing Lili , Macmillan, Chapters 5-8
ISBN: 9780230406391

Discover China: Workbook Two, Chapters 5-8
ISBN: 9780230406407

Bilingual Dictionaries

  • Oxford Concise English Chinese/Chinese English Dictionary

Websites

Dictionary

In addition there are supplementary materials for self-study in the Self-Access Centre.