This is a module designed for students who completed Mandarin Chinese Beginners A1 Part 3 or who have studied Mandarin Chinese up to GCSE (and who achieved a grade C) or equivalent. This module aims to provide you with a broader but still limited range of oral, aural and written skills, sufficient for coping with everyday situations with predictable content and simple survival needs.

This course is the first part of the preparation for the HSK (Level 2) examination.

• Understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).
• Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
• Describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need

All courses on the Languages for All programme are delivered on a hybrid mode, mixing face-to-face and virtual teaching. You will be expected to actively participate in role-plays, interactive activities and group discussions. Course material is accessible on the University’s Virtual Learning Environment, Learning Central, and should be cross-platform compatible.

27 contact hours – 3 hours per week of interactive language workshops.

All key language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing, as well as grammar and vocab) are assessed over the course of the module.

Written end of module test (50%) and course work (30%). 

Oral assessment (20%). 

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