Course outline:
Topics:
• Talking about one’s capability, likes, and hobbies
• Telephonic conversation, and leaving a message for somebody
• Refuse an invitation and express regrets
• Agree or disagree, give others permission
• Bargains in shopping
• Make a request for a refund or an exchange in a shop
• Make an excuse to leave earlier in different situations
• Ask for services in a bank; money exchange, money transfer etc.
• Saying goodbye in different situations
Grammar:
• Review & practise level 3 grammar
• sentence order and tenses
• Improving presentation skills
• Comparisons
• Words about permission and refusal, agree and disagree
• Present continuous
• Conditional clause
• Adverbs
• Learning potential verb phrases
• Attributive clause
• Chinese characters
Expectations:
1. Listening to Understand
By the end of Grade 4, students will:
Practice pronunciation and intonation
Identify the purpose and meaning of what is being said and why it is being said.
Demonstrate a higher level of understanding the exchange of the information and ideas going on.
Begin to identify and support different opinions and points of views in the text.

2. Speaking to Communicate

By the end of Grade 4 students will:
Hold advanced conversations.
Learn Telephone call etiquette
Improve fluency by practising situational dialogues.
Translating from Chinese to English, and vice versa.
Demonstrate clarity and coherence in their speech.
Choose the right words to convey their meaning efficiently, engaging the interests of their audience.
Use visual aids to support their oral presentations.

3. Reading
By the end of Grade 4 students will:
reading short essay practice
Read and understand different literary texts in Mandarin fluently.
Identify and use different comprehension and navigation strategies for reading the text.
Demonstrate an understanding of the text by narrating it.
Extending understanding by expressing their own opinions towards the text they read.
Identify and support a variety of point of views presented in the text.



4. Writing:
By the end of Grade 4, students will:
Formulate and write short sentences in Mandarin.
Practice Writing common characters
Generate ideas about a topic using various strategies.
Sort and identify information and ideas to support their writing from various sources.
Use familiar and concise words to convey their meaning clearly.
Spelling words that are both familiar and unfamiliar using multiple techniques like sound-symbol relationships.
Expand their vocabulary and grammar.

Final Reporting
Assessment is the process of gathering information from a variety of sources, such as assignments, day-to-day observations, conversations or conferences, demonstrations, projects, and performances. As part of assessment, teachers provide students with descriptive feedback that guides their efforts towards improvement. The final grade reflects the student’s most consistent level of achievement throughout the course, although special consideration is given to more recent evidence of achievement. There is no final assessment, such as an exam, in this course.