Course outline:
Topics:
• Express one’s doubt
• Express certainty and uncertainty about an issue
• Talking to friend over phone
• Express feeling odd or surprised about something you heard
• Express worries and learn to comfort others
• Make a compliment and respond to other’s compliment with modesty
• Make an apology or forgive someone

Grammar:
Three ‘de’s in Chinese,
Learn comparative forms
Comparison
How to indicate an action in progress
Re-cap sentences in Chinese
Re-cap different tenses in Chinese grammar
Expectations:
1. Listening to Understand
By the end of Grade 6, students will:
Extend understanding of oral texts by connecting the ideas in them to their own knowledge and experience to other familiar texts.
Listen to Chinese audio, video materials.

Distinguish between stated and implied ideas in oral texts.

Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate listening behaviour by using active listening strategies in order to contribute meaningfully and work constructively in groups.

Identify and explain the importance of significant ideas and information in oral texts.

2. Speaking to Communicate

By the end of Grade 6 students will:
Improve intonation and speaking fluency.
Improve communication skills.
Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate speaking behaviour in a variety of situations, including small-and large-group discussions.
Communicate orally in a clear, coherent manner, presenting ideas, opinions, and information in a logical sequence.
Choose a variety of appropriate words and phrases, including descriptive words and some technical vocabulary, and a few elements of style, to communicate their meaning accurately and engage the interest of their audience.
Identify some vocal effects, including tone, pace, pitch, and volume, and use them appropriately, and with sensitivity towards cultural differences, to help communicate their meaning.
3. Reading
By the end of Grade 6 students will:
Read a variety of texts from diverse cultures, including literary texts , graphic texts and informational texts.
Enlarge vocabulary quickly (more supplementary materials).
Identify a variety of purposes for reading and choose reading materials appropriate for those purposes.
Identify a variety of reading comprehension strategies and use them appropriately before, during, and after reading to understand texts.
Demonstrate understanding of a variety of texts by summarizing important ideas and citing supporting details.

Make inferences about texts using stated and implied ideas from the texts as evidence.

4. Writing:
By the end of Grade 6, students will:
Write complex sentences in Mandarin.
Establish a personal voice in their writing, with a focus on using words and stylistic elements that convey a specific mood.
Use sentences of different lengths and structures.
Use specific words and phrases to create an intended impression.
Identify and order main ideas and supporting details and group them into units that could be used to develop a summary.

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.