Edexcel GCSE 2012 Chinese (Mandarin)

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Scheme of work

This scheme of work has been produced to help you implement this Edexcel specification. It is offered as an example of one possible model that you should feel free to adapt to meet your needs and is not intended to be in any way prescriptive. It is in editable Word format to make adaptation as easy as possible.

Teaching resource exemplars

The scheme of work contains suggestions for resources or textbooks that you can use to support your teaching. These are suggestions only of material you may find useful and you are encouraged to use a wide range of resources that suit the needs of your students.

Other Edexcel teaching resources

Pearson Education have published teaching resources that support the Edexcel in Chinese (Mandarin) specification that include:

·  a Student book — a full colour textbook

·  a Teacher’s Guide – with detailed teaching notes that support the Student Book

·  an Audio CD Pack – which contains audio for the listening exercises in the Student Book

·  an Assessment Pack – reading and listening tests in the style of the examination and writing and speaking controlled assessment tasks for you to use or adapt, along with a clear marking scheme.

These resources have been written by a team of authors from the SSAT (Specialist Schools and Academies Trust) Confucius Institute. You’ll find details of all of these at www.edexcel.com/gcse2009 — please look under Chinese/resources.

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Edexcel GCSE in Chinese specification

Edexcel scheme of work

Year 10
Week / Content coverage/
key questions / Learning outcomes / Exemplar activities / Exemplar resources
1 / Revise basics from KS3: greetings, numbers, age, dates. / ·  To be able to write numbers from 1 to 100.
·  To be able to write age, birthdays, days of the week etc. / ·  Students carry out a class survey to find out each other’s birthday. / ·  Lesson Three of ChinaSoft 你好 covers this topic.
·  Unit one of Book One of 三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.
·  Unit one of Book One of People’s Education Press 快乐汉语 (or British Council Chinese for GCSE) provides information on this topic.
2 / Revise basics from KS3: basic pronouns 我、你、他etc, verbs 是、喜欢、吃、喝、看、 玩、打 etc,
adjectives 好、好吃、好喝、 好看、好玩、 有意思、没意思 etc. / ·  To be able to write different pronouns, basic verbs and adjectives.
·  To be able to compose simple sentences using the basic pronouns, verbs and adjectives. / ·  Teacher divide the class into groups and give each group a number of characters learned before and have a group competition to see which group knows most of the words. / ·  Appendix 5 of Edexcel specification for Chinese provides useful information for revision.
3 / Chapter 1: All about me
Unit 1: My family / ·  To be able to talk about how old each member is, their jobs, their personality and their interests. / ·  Class survey: ‘find someone who…’, students ask each other questions to find someone who has…
— an older brother
— a younger brother
— a dog etc. / ·  Chapter one of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.
·  Unit two of Book one of 三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.
Year 10
Week / Content coverage/
key questions / Learning outcomes / Exemplar activities / Exemplar resources
4 / Unit 2: My friends / ·  To be able to describe a friend, talk about their appearance, personality and interests. / ·  Looking for a friend — First teacher print out texts about different people with their names and personalities and hobbies and stick them around the classroom.
·  Students first write down some key adjectives to describe their ideal friends, then look around to find the one who best fit their description as their friend.
·  Student describe someone in the class and others guess who he/she is. / ·  Chapter one of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.
·  Lesson ten of Book one of ChinaSoft 你好 covers this topic.
·  Unit one of Book one of 三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.
5 / Unit 3: My likes and dislikes / ·  To be able to talk about hobbies, favourite food and drinks, school subjects. / ·  Interview each other and record the result in a table. / ·  Chapter one of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.
6 / Unit 4: My daily routine / ·  To be able to talk about what they do on a typical school day.
·  To be able to ask and answer questions about when certain things happen. / ·  Class survey: Find someone who:
— gets up before 6.30 am
— has breakfast at 7 am
— goes to bed after 11pm
etc. / ·  Lesson three of Book two of People’s Education Press 快乐汉语 (or British Council Chinese for GCSE) provides information on this topic.
·  Unit four of Book two 三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.
·  Lesson two of Book two of ChinaSoft 你好 covers this topic.
7 / Chapter 2: Leisure
Unit 1: Hobbies and interest / ·  To be able to talk about hobbies and interests extensively. / ·  What hobbies do they have? — Read the sentences about what each person has in his/her school bag and tell what hobbies he/she might have. / ·  Chapter three of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.
·  Unit three of Book two 三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.
Year 10
Week / Content coverage/
key questions / Learning outcomes / Exemplar activities / Exemplar resources
8 / Unit 2: Sports / ·  To be able to talk about sports extensively.
·  To be able to say what they can/can’t do.
·  To be able to say how good they are at certain sports. / ·  Class survey: find out what sports each person can play.
·  Make a bar chart to show the result of the survey, and explain in words, eg 我们班有五个人会打篮球，有十个人会踢足球 … / ·  Chapter three of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.
·  Lesson twenty of Book one and Lesson twelve of Book two of People’s Education Press 快乐汉语 (or British Council Chinese for GCSE) provides information on this topic.
·  Lesson nine of Book one of ChinaSoft 你好 covers this topic.
9 / Unit 3: Sports centre / ·  To be able to talk about sports centre facilities.
·  To be able to ask and answer questions about sports centre opening hours and prices. / ·  Role play: one as a Chinese exchange student wanting to do some sports, one as a home student, who explains to the Chinese student what facilities the local sports centre has; the Chinese student asks about opening hours and prices, the home student answers. / ·  Chapter three of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.
·  Page 83 to 85 of the Edexcel GCSE in Chinese Sample Assessment Materials also covers this topic.
10 / Unit 4: Activities outside school / ·  To be able to talk about frequency and duration of activities.
·  Learn the word order when talking about frequency or duration. / ·  Students write down the activities next to the frequency words.
·  天天，常常，很少，周末
·  Students write in sentences about how often they do different activities and for how long. / ·  Chapter three of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.
11 / Unit 5: The Olympics / ·  To be able to understand reading text regarding Olympics. / ·  Read short paragraphs about Olympics and answer questions in English. / ·  Chapter three of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.
12 / Prepare for speaking/writing controlled assessment.
Theme: sports and leisure / ·  Be ready for the speaking/writing assessment of a chosen topic. / ·  Role play of a chosen speaking topic.
·  Write a web page to promote a sports centre to Chinese-speaking visitors. / ·  Chapter three of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.
·  Page 160 of the Edexcel GCSE in Chinese Sample Assessment Materials also covers this topic.
Year 10
Week / Content coverage/
key questions / Learning outcomes / Exemplar activities / Exemplar resources
13 / Controlled Assessment
Speaking/Writing
Theme: sports and leisure
14 / Chapter 2 Food and Drink
Unit 1: My favourite food and drink / ·  Be able to talk about what they like eating and drinking. / ·  Class survey to find out what’s the most favourite food and drink. / ·  Chapter seven of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.
·  Unit three Book one of People’s Education Press 快乐汉语 (or British Council Chinese for GCSE) provides information on this topic.
15 / Unit 2: Eating out / ·  Be able to talk about what food and drink are available and the price.
·  Be able to order food and drink at café or restaurant.
·  Be able to comment on the food and service of a restaurant .
·  Be able to talk about past experience of eating out. / ·  Role play: one as customer, one as waiter or waitress.
·  Design a simple menu for a Chinese café or restaurant. / ·  Chapter seven of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.
·  Lesson eight of ChinaSoft 你好 covers this topic.
·  Lesson twenty-five of People’s Education Press 跟我学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.
·  BBC Read Chinese online provide useful information on this topic.
16 / Unit 3: Healthy eating / ·  Be able to express opinions on healthy and unhealthy eating.
·  Be able to talk about healthy lifestyle. / ·  Give students a list of different eating habits, pair work or group discussion to decide which ones are healthy and which ones are unhealthy. / ·  Chapter seven of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.
·  Unit three of Book three三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.
17 / Unit 4: Food and festivals / ·  Be able to talk about festivals and festival food. / ·  Match the typical food with the festival. / ·  Chapter seven of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.
·  Unit eight of Book two of People’s Education Press 快乐汉语 (or British Council Chinese for GCSE) provides information on this topic.
Year 10
Week / Content coverage/
key questions / Learning outcomes / Exemplar activities / Exemplar resources
18 / Chapter 3 Where I live
Unit 1: My house / ·  Be able to talk about types of houses and rooms and house items.
·  Be able to describe people’s homes. / ·  Draw an dream house and label the rooms and furniture.
·  Read house renting advertisement and answer questions. / ·  Chapter five of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.
·  Unit two of Book two and Unit three of Book three of People’s Education Press 快乐汉语 (or British Council Chinese for GCSE) provides useful information on this topic.
·  Lesson three of ChinaSoft 你好 2 provides useful information this topic.
·  Unit five of Book three三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.
19 / Unit 2: Local amenities / ·  Be able to talk about places of public interest.
·  Be able to say what they have in their local area, how far/close these places are to their house. / ·  Role play: one as a Chinese student just arrive in the UK, one as a home student, the Chinese student asks where she/he can go for shopping, sports, money etc, the home student explains. / ·  Chapter five of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.
·  Unit three of Book three三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.
20 / Unit 3: Where things are / ·  Be able to talk about the location of different places. / ·  Role play carried on from previous unit, the Chinese student asks where things are, the home student explains. / ·  Chapter five of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.
21 / Unit 4: Directions / ·  Be able to give directions. / ·  Students tell directions according to the picture given.
·  Play in two groups, group A have one student go out of the classroom, group B hide an item, the student comes in, group A have to tell directions in Chinese to direct the student find the item; then group B does the same, see which group find the item quicker. / ·  Chapter five of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.
·  Unit three of Book three三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.
Year 10
Week / Content coverage/
key questions / Learning outcomes / Exemplar activities / Exemplar resources
22 / Unit 5: At the local tourist information centre / ·  Be able to tell what places of interest their area has and how to get there.