The individual: Text types and textual conventions Linguistic resources itinerary, conversation, description, Destination Grammar speech Students reflect on and discuss: Adverbs Linguistic resources their travel experiences Vocabulary and structures related to Conjunctions holiday destinations – Destination China Constructions and experiences Sound and writing systems planning a trip to Measure all sound units: aspirated and China visiting – words verbs unaspirated Chinese cities of tones Nouns Beijing and Hangzhou, pronunciation and intonation famous places, food and customs. Intercultural understandings Particles structural discuss China’s increasing Task 10: Response: popularity as a travel destination Listening (Week 9) Prepositions compare study/work and Task 11: Oral holiday time allocation in China Sentence 6–11 communication (Week and Australia types passive explore communication, and 11) social etiquette for visitors to Verbs and China verb phrases resultative discuss coping with daily life situations while travelling in verb China explore shopping, bargaining auxiliary and tipping customs in China Word for Language learning and approximation communication strategies seeking opportunities to practise the language using a bilingual dictionary to check characters and Pinyin developing strategies for using dictionaries
6–11 The individual: Destination Students reflect on and discuss: their travel experiences – holiday destinations and experiences planning a trip to China – visiting Chinese cities of Beijing and Hangzhou, famous places, food and customs. Task 10: Response: Listening (Week 9) Task 11: Oral communication (Week 11) Text types and textual conventions itinerary, conversation, description, speech Linguistic resources Vocabulary and structures related to Destination China Sound and writing systems all sound units: aspirated and unaspirated tones pronunciation and intonation Intercultural understandings discuss China’s increasing popularity as a travel destination compare study/work and holiday time allocation in China and Australia explore communication, and social etiquette for visitors to China discuss coping with daily life situations while travelling in China explore shopping, bargaining and tipping customs in China Language learning and communication strategies seeking opportunities to practise the language using a bilingual dictionary to check characters and Pinyin developing strategies for using dictionaries Linguistic resources Grammar Adverbs Conjunctions Constructions Measure words verbs Nouns Particles structural Prepositions Sentence types passive Verbs and verb phrases resultative verb auxiliary Word for approximation
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