Start Level: Intermediate （ level 1 to level 3 ）

Course hour: 90hrs

Course Description:
Students in this level can already understand elementary Chinese grammar and are able to communicate using Chinese in a wide range of situations of daily life. Classes are conducted entirely in spoken Chinese, and consist of a combination of practice, reading, discussion, dictation, composition and feedback, net exploration via the web, and presentation. Text materials introduced through lively narratives, basic lore of China 's culture, history, legend, geography, ethical values, modern transformation, etc.

Course Objectives:
a): Be able to converse on a variety of topics and express themselves fluently in social communications.
b): Know more than 2000 word vocabulary and use them freely.
c): Be able to read and write narrative and descriptive texts.
d): Be able to write composition on certain topics.

Course Activities:
Each class is a combination of the following:
1. A brief oral quiz at the beginning of each class.
2. Explanation of vocabulary, grammar structure and the text by the teacher.
3. Practice, reading, discussion, dictation, composition and feedback.
4. Improvisation combined with students' practical use.

Covered 30 daily conversational topics:
•  Looking for a job
•  Go back home
•  Advertisement for marriage
•  Travel China
•  Forbidden City
•  I like dancing
•  Legend of West Lake
•  I like Chinese literature
•  Talking about examination
•  Go to United States
•  Visit Wang Hong
•  Examination for entering university
•  Talking about population
•  Watching opera
•  Beijing subway
•  Leaning Chinese through movies
•  I want to see a snow scene
•  I've climbed the Great Wall
•  I teach you how to play tennis
•  The wedding
•  Chinese zodiac
•  Confucius traveled Tai Mountain
•  Attending school anniversary celebration
•  A girl and an old man
•  Life lies in sports
•  Shopping in the market
•  Dialogues between father and daughter
•  Chinese are enthusiastic
•  His parents divorced
•  Writing Chinese letter
•  Reception plan
•  Lecture of the new mayor
•  Traffic accident
•  Chinese food and western food
•  Reformation in China
•  Memorial Tomb of Sun Yatsen