Mandarin - Year 8

Mandarin Overview

Term 1: School

Students recap previously learned content from year 7. They will also learn to talk about school subjects and ask questions using question word 什么 and to be able to express preferences in school learning.

  1. Listening and Reading: listen to and read vocabulary, short sentences in familiar context then answer in English.
你好

hello

美国

America

中国

China

哪国人

which nationality?

什么

what?

北京

Bei Jing

爷爷

grandpa

奶奶

grandma

老师

teacher

同学

classmate

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural
Develop the individual:

Students gain knowledge about schools in China in comparison to schools the UK.

Create a supportive community:

Term 2: Food and drink

Students learn to talk about different kinds of food, what they like and dislike, and what they want to eat using 想 and to be able to ask other's preferences in a familiar context.

  1. Listening, Reading and Translation

bird

兔子

rabbit

fish

生日

birthday

外公

grandpa

外婆

grandma

measure word for snake,fish

没有

not have

你几岁?

How old are you?

姐姐

older sister

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural
Develop the individual:

Students gain an understanding of Chinese food and its food culture and may become more curious about different types of food and drink.

Create a supportive community:

Students become more curious in different types of cuisines.

Term 3: Holidays

To be able to talk about holidays including different time frames and to use the past time marker to talk about what they did during their holiday, linking to various destinations.

  1. Speaking: students will be asked to prepare answers for a list of questions, using present and past time frames. The teacher will randomly pick a few sentences to test the students individually.
看书

reading

上网

surf the internet

看电影

watch film

玩儿电脑游戏

play computer games

跑步

running

游泳

swimming

爱好

hobby

一起

together

喜欢

like

买东西

shopping

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural
Develop the individual:

Students gain an understanding of the concept of nationality. Students gain some ideas about famous places in China.

Create a supportive community:

Term 4: All about me

To be able to use adjectives to describe appearances; To be understand and express ideas about furniture and type of rooms; To be able to talk about clothing and daily routine by using the past time frame.

  1. Reading and writing: to read short sentences and paragraphs in Mandarin and answer questions in English. Students are asked to write a short passage within the topic learnt.
运动

sports

who

打乒乓球

play table tennis

can

打网球

paly tennis

打篮球

play basketball

踢足球

play football

星期一

Monday

星期日

Sunday

also

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural
Develop the individual:

Students start to understand individualism and that the choices and situations they live in make them unique.

Create a supportive community:

Students gain understanding of different culture and become more aware of the differences.

Term 5: Where do you live?

To be able to understand and express places found in a town/city; To be able to use prepositions and to talk about future plans linking to the places and countries learnt.

  1. Hurdle tests practice
中文

Chinese

lesson

learn

音乐

music

体育

PE

学校

school

历史

history

数学

maths

学生

student

class

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural
Develop the individual:

Students understand living situations in China. Students learn to appreciate their living situation.

Create a supportive community:

By appreciating where they live and discussing what there is there students will appreciate concepts of community.

Term 6: Hurdle tests

Students to revise and to become familiarise with the hurdle tests and to practise online in preparation for the online Listening and Reading hurdle tests.

  1. Hurdle tests: students to take the Mandarin Excellence Programme hurdle tests, including speaking, writing, listening and reading (listening and reading tests are online tests)
面包

bread

面条

noddles

米饭

rice

牛肉

beef

meat

vegetable

水果

fruit

eat

drink

glass

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural
Develop the individual:

Students should be proud of what they have learnt this year and demonstrate it in the hurdle tests.

Create a supportive community:

Students are able to start to understand some vocabulary in Mandarin in every-day situations and be able to use simple sentences to communicate in Mandarin.