Comprehensive Chinese 3 Intermediate

Dates

• Online: 6-8pm on Mondays and Thursdays, 30 September to 5 December 2024
• In-person: 10am-1pm on Saturdays, 5 October to 7 December 2024

Prerequisites

Completion of our Comprehensive 2 course or 60 hours of intensive Chinese.

Fees

• Weekday full fee: £340
• Weekday discounted fee: £306*
• Saturday full fee: £255
• Saturday discounted fee: £230*

*Available to current University of Manchester staff and students, and returning CI students (must have completed a course with us since September 2022)

How to enrol

Read our Enrolment T&Cs and enrol via our e-store.

Course description

This pre-intermediate course focuses on all four core language skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening.

The course covers talking about weekend/holiday plans, making office phone calls, seeing someone off, going shopping, drinking tea, making comments about someone, talking about sickness/favourite season, looking for missing things, persuading someone, asking about the length of time something takes, farewell, buying houses, parsing, encouraging someone, comparing, subjects, commuting, etc.

This course is between the HSK 2-3 exam or CEFRL A2-B1.

We recommend that three hours of independent study be undertaken each week to ensure students can keep up with the pace of the course.

Learning outcomes

• Have mastered a core vocabulary of 160 Chinese words used in an everyday context and 25 language structures used in an everyday context.
• Conduct increasingly complex conversations in Chinese and will also have more of an understanding of expressions of tense and the deeper functions of Chinese grammar.

Learning materials

• HSK 3 standard course, lessons 1-10. Beijing Language and Culture University Press.

For an example of the course content view our textbook extract.