Curriculum for Adult Group Classes

Topics, Objectives, and Goals of Each Level

your bridge to Chinese

Beginner Level I-III

(20 hrs/level)

Topics

  • At the restaurant
  • Numbers & amounts
  • Money
  • Time & dates
  • Shopping & bargaining
  • Seeing a doctor
  • Expressing thanks
  • Making friends
  • Asking directions

Goals

  • Recognize about 600 basic words & 200 sentence patterns
  • Express oneself and communicate in a simple and efficient way
  • Able to survive in daily communication

Intermediate Level I-III

(20 hrs/level)

Topics

  • Describing work and family
  • The weather
  • Hobbies
  • Arts and culture
  • Locations and directions
  • Traveling and transportation
  • At the post office
  • Making appointments
  • Making suggestions
  • Making complaints
  • Expressing opinions

Goals

  • Recognize up to 1,600 words
  • Can communicate comfortably
  • More about routine needs
  • Begin to understand native conversation
  • Learn more sophisticated expressions
  • Start simple characters writing

Advanced Level III

(30 hrs/level)

Topics

  • Discussing issues
  • Health & medical services
  • Trade & business
  • Joining an exhibition
  • Negotiating price
  • Entertainment
  • Comic dialogue
  • Current affairs in China
  • Places names & others

Goals

  • Recognize up to 2,000 words
  • Learn more idiomatic & sophisticated language patterns
  • Explore in depth a wide range of social, business and cultural topics