CHN 103 First Year Chinese 3

Lecture Hours: 4
Credits: 4

Third course of three-course sequence in introductory Mandarin Chinese language and culture class. Includes additional expansion on effective communicative skills in both the written and spoken language, as well as the understanding of the practices and products of native Chinese culture. Continues to expand beginning learner’s proficiency, as well as cultural awareness and understanding.

Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 (or higher), or completion of WR 090 (or higher) with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor.
Student Learning Outcomes:

Transcribe dictated phrases and sentences.
Respond to spoken phrases, sentences and questions supported by context and redundancy.
Speak sentences and questions with appropriate content to various audiences.
Initiate and sustain conversation with details to express ideas.
Interpret main ideas and details from simple written texts.
Interpret main ideas and details from simple written materials, such as restaurant menus, directions or doctor’s instructions.
Transcribe dictated material.
Compose short written letters and paragraphs with some details.
Describe selected aspects of geography, history, artistic heritage, and cultural practices in the Chinese world.
Explain and use several behaviors and basic nonverbal cues in limited situations.

Content Outline

Lesson 1 Talking about Weather
- Discuss the weather
- Forecast weather locally and in other cities
- Discuss type of activities according to weather
- Use ~bǐ in comparison sentences
- Use ~le as sentence final participle
- Use modal verb ~huì for an anticipated action
- Read a short article about weather
- Use the adverb ~yòu to indicate of recurrence an action
- Use ~kěshì，dànshì to offer an alternative perspective
Lesson 2 Dining
- Phrases for dining out
- Phrases for eating in a cafeteria
- Inquire about seats, order dishes, inform dietary preferences and restrictions
- Pay for the meal
- Us ~yī….yě/dōu to form an emphatic negative sentence
- Describe more or less
- Discuss ~gāng vs. ~gāng cái for an action that took place in the past
- Resultative compliments
- Use reduplication of adjectives
Lesson 3 Asking Directions
- Ask for and give a direction
- Identify locations by using landmarks as references
- Describe whether two places are close to or far away from one another
- State where a person is going and the purpose
- Words for direction and location
- Comparative sentences with ~méi(yǒu)
- Use ~nàme to indicate degree
- Use ~ dào vs. ~ qù for the purpose of going somewhere
- Use the dynamic participle ~guò for past experience
- Combine actions in two different types of situations
Lesson 4 Birthday Party
- Ask a friend to go to a party
- Suggest things to take to a party
- Offer a ride and arrange a time and place to meet
- Describe duration of time
- Talk about Chinese zodiac sign
- Give a simple description of someone’s facial features
- Understand the verb phrases and subject-predicate phrases used as attributives
- Use the adjectives ~yòu … ~yòu (both…and…)
Lesson 5 Seeing a Doctor
- Talk about basic symptoms of a cold or allergies
- Discuss instructions on taking medications
- Discuss the reason to see or not to see a doctor
- Urge others to see a doctor when they are not feeling well
- Indicate an extreme degree
- Use the adverb ~hái to indicate the action is still in progress
- Use ~néng and ~zhǐ néng to show attitude