Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

1. Apply wider cultural understandings and recognize Chinese cultural values to interact with native speakers of Mandarin.
2. Employ the understanding of Chinese syntactic system to read and compose simple colloquial Chinese texts in Chinese characters
3. Use Chinese grammatical structures and vocabulary to acquire information in semi-predictable settings
4. Use effective communicative skills to interact with native Mandarin Chinese speakers
 

1. Group, pair and individual activities – communicative based activities
2. Classroom and individual projects – project-based activities
3. Individual and group presentations – project-based activities
4. Class drills – TPR and TPRS teaching methods; immersion approach

1. Active participation in interactive class activities, including individual, pair or group activities
2. Individual presentations
3. Contextual written tasks to assess reading, writing, cultural and aural competencies
4. Oral interviews with partners or instructor
5. Multimedia aids to improve listening skills, including short audio clips or films
6. Class discussions to enhance cultural awareness and knowledge

Themes:
    1. Dating
    2. Renting an apartment
    3. Sports
    4. Travel
    5. Airport
Concepts:
    1. Statements – affirmative and negative
    2. Interrogatives: confirmative and informative questions
    3. Comparative structures
    4. Acceptance or refusal of an invitation
    5. Identify locations
Skills and competencies:
    1. Employ basic terms to accept or decline an invitation
    2. Describe current and ideal living quarters
    3. Comment living conditions
    4. Negotiate price
    5. Name popular sports
    6. Describe your travel plans
    7. Plan a vacations
    8. Read travel itinerary
    9. Check in at the airport
   10. Compliment someone on his or her language ability