Chinese IV

Course Overview

This course is a continuation of Chinese III and covers the second half of the school year.  It will continue focusing on developing students’ interpersonal, interpretive, and presentation skills, preparing them to be able to communicate with Chinese people across ethnic, cultural, ideological, and national boundaries.  Chinese IV reviews the grammar structures and target expressions introduced in Chinese I, II, and III, and expands students’ vocabulary and language skills through interpersonal communicative activities including discussions, debates, collaborative annotations, contextualized reading, and listening and speaking assignments drawing from resources such as movies, video clips from TV series and reality shows, interviews, talks, and novels.